[ExI] Rejecting Socrates

[Stefano Vaj]

2011/7/26 Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com>

> Wouldn't Aristotle have been using Greek -- not Latin? :)
>

In fact, it is Francis Bacon, not Aristotle, even though the latter actually
says something on those lines in the Ethica Nicomacaea. But Plato himself
writes something on those lines, referring to... Socrates, in  *Phaedon*,
91b-c:

"ὑμεῖς μέντοι, ἂν ἐμοὶ πείθησθε, σμικρὸν φροντίσαντες Σωκράτους, τῆς δὲ
ἀληθείας πολὺ μᾶλλον, ἐὰν μέν τι ὑμῖν δοκῶ ἀληθὲς λέγειν, συνομολογήσατε, εἰ
δὲ μή, παντὶ λόγῳ ἀντιτείνετε, εὐλαβούμενοι ὅπως μὴ ἐγὼ ὑπὸ προθυμίας ἅμα
ἐμαυτόν τε καὶ ὑμᾶς ἐξαπατήσας, ὥσπερ μέλιττα τὸ κέντρον ἐγκαταλιπὼν
οἰχήσομαι."

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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