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Often appears with: temperance and self-mastery · courage and cowardice · truthfulness and lying · truthfulness and detesting falsehood · traits of philosopher-kings · temperance and poverty of greed · temperance and covetousness · philosopher-kings character traits · educational requirements (good memory) · education and memory · ambition and the love of glory
Usually: list or catalogue (2) · detachment (2) · confronting death (1) · praise (1)
Socrates specifies traits of a philosophical ruler: love of unchanging truth, detestation of falsehood, strong desire for knowledge, temperance, freedom from illiberality, courage against death-fear, and a well-proportioned mind with a good memory.
How can there be? Can the same nature be a lover of wisdom and a lover of falsehood? Never. The true lover of learning then must from his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth? Assuredly. But then again, as we know by experience, he whose desires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they will be like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel. True. He whos…
Socrates lists character criteria for philosopher-kings—truthfulness, love of all truth, temperance, generosity, courage, good memory, proportionality, and a natural attraction to the true being of all things.
Never. The true lover of learning then must from his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth? Assuredly. But then again, as we know by experience, he whose desires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they will be like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel. True. He whose desires are drawn towards knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures o…