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Often appears with: courage and cowardice · temperance and self-mastery · temperance and covetousness · stoic attitude to pain · pleasure and pain · philosopher-kings character traits · justice as a virtue · justice and corporal punishment · good versus evil · education and memory · duty, conscience, and obligation · courage and fear of death
Usually: list or catalogue (1) · reflection (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · praise (1)
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…
He uses German word distinctions to separate “well/ill” as conditions of feeling from “good/evil” as rational determinations of the will, illustrating this with Stoic pain and legal punishment examples.
{BOOK*1|CHAPTER*2 ^paragraph 5} The German language has the good fortune to possess expressions which do not allow this difference to be overlooked. It possesses two very distinct concepts and especially distinct expressions for that which the Latins express by a single word, bonum. For bonum it has das Gute [good], and das Wohl [well, weal], for malum das Bose [evil], and das Ubel [ill, bad], or das Well [woe]. So …