who has already known what reality is and grown accustomed to it, would not like to return to his former life which his fellow prisoners take pride in. He prefer to "be the poor servant of a poor master" to seek for the truth in the upper world, rather than go back to the den to...
The Republic by Plato, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this bookhere. BOOK VII BOOK VII. And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:—Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has...
human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from ...
另外一版本Whereas,our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already;and that just as the eye was unable toturn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument ofknowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the...
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7Plato, The Republic, Book VII (525b) in The Dialogues of Platotrans. byBenjamin Jowett, Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 7 (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1975) 393. 8Song of Solomon 11:21. 9Augustine, “On Free Will,” Book 11, xi, 30 in Augustine: Earlier Writings...
I read 14 novellas as I enjoy short books, which is one of the reasons why I struggled withBerta Islaby Javier Maria andIochkaby Cristian Fulaş. The best novella I read wasOliver VIIby Antal Szerb. It was fun, interesting and still relevant, like many classics. Highly recommended. ...
7Plato, The Republic, Book VII (525b) in The Dialogues of Platotrans. byBenjamin Jowett, Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 7 (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1975) 393. 8Song of Solomon 11:21. 9Augustine, “On Free Will,” Book 11, xi, 30 in Augustine: Earlier Writings...
Oliver VII (Antal Szerb) - a slight but charming entertainment 5 December 2011 (453) The Elements of Graphing Data (William S. Cleveland) - effective graphical presentation of data 28 November 2011 (1986) **The Story of the Stone (Cao Xueqin) - the great Chinese novel, aka The Dream...
E. A. Budge’sThe Book of the Dead Don’t let the occultism of the examples put you off. After all, the earliest forays into movable books occurred in alchemical and Kabbalistic tomes. As Kiesel, also a book maker, points out: