...absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, he will have no meanness in his character (485-486). In short, he has magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all time and all existence (486). The natural gifts upon which all this is to be developed are 'courage, magnanimity, apprehension,...

...absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, he will have no meanness in his character (485-486). In short, he has magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all time and all exis* tence (486). The natural gifts upon which all this is to be developed are 'courage, magnanimity,...

...the embattled philosophers have been writing like philosophers? "The philosopher," says Plato, "is he who has magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all time and existence." It may well be that war Is no time for magnificence of mind, no time for discounting the...

...Perhaps it is even more important that the religious 1 Republic, Bk. vi. p. 486. " Then how can he who has magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all time and all existence, think much of human life?" life, here already in the world of all of us, and apart from the special...

...all your powers of thought." The opposite view is given by Plato in his description of a scholar: " A lover, not of a part of wisdom, but of the whole;...never satisfied ; who has magnificence of mind and is a spectator of all time and all existence." If a child is a fit person to choose his intellectual nourishment...

...way. Perhaps it is even more important that the religious 1 Republic, Bk. vi. p. 486. "Then how can he who has magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all time and all existence, think much of human life?" life, here already in the world of all of us, and apart from the special...

...who have never learned to meditate. ' May we not say of the philosopher,' asks Plato, ' that he is a lover, not of a part of wisdom, but of the whole?' The philosopher, finding himself in an intellectual community where the interests are highly specialized,...