[Inquiry] Re: Ideals Or Their Abuse

Jon Awbrey jawbrey at att.net
Tue Oct 4 07:08:06 CDT 2005


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IOTA.  Note 2

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| Do you think it is a small matter that you are attempting to
| determine and not the entire conduct of life ('biou diagogen')
| that for each of us would make living most worth while?
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| Plato, "Republic", 344E
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| Plato, "The Republic",
| translated by Paul Shorey,
|'Plato, Volume 5', G.P. Goold (ed.),
| William Heinemann, London, UK, 1930, 1982.

Gloss from 'Liddell & Scott's Intermediate':

| Diagoge.  A passing of life, a way or course of life, Latin 'ratio vitae'.

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