Thesauros Edebiyat Felsefe Θεαίτητος

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Θεαίτητος Plato
153 SOC. And furthermore, the animal kingdom is sprung from these same sources.
153 THEAET. Of course.
153 SOC. Well, then, is not the bodily habit destroyed by rest and idleness, and preserved, generally speaking, by gymnastic exercises and motions?
153 THEAET. Yes.
153 SOC. And what of the habit of the soul? Does not the soul acquire information and is it not preserved and made better through learning and practice, which are motions, whereas through rest, which is want of practice and of study, it learns nothing and forgets what it has learned?
153 THEAET. Certainly.
153 SOC. Then the good, both for the soul and for the body, is motion, and rest is the opposite?
153 THEAET. Apparently.
153 SOC. Now shall I go on and mention to you also windless air, calm sea, and all that sort of thing, and say that stillness causes decay and destruction and that the opposite brings preservation? And shall I add to this the all-compelling and crowning argument that Homer by the golden chain Hom. Il. 8.18 ff. especially 26. In this passage Zeus declares that all the gods and goddesses together could not, with a golden chain, drag him from on high, but that if he pulled, he would drag them, with earth and sea, would then bind the chain round the summit of Olympus, and all the rest would hang aloft. This crowning argument is a reductio ad absurdum of the habit of using texts from Homer in support of all kinds of doctrine. refers to nothing else than the sun, and means that so long as the heavens and the sun go round everything exists and is preserved, among both gods and men, but if the motion should stop, as if bound fast, everything would be destroyed and would, as the saying is, be turned upside down?
153 THEAET. Yes, Socrates, I think he means what you say he does.

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