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... WEALTH In the Republic Socrates ranks wealth as an object of pursuit intermediate between sensual pleasure and power . Like other goods popularly thought to be the means to hap- piness , wealth is itself neither good nor bad ; but the ...
... WEALTH In the Republic Socrates ranks wealth as an object of pursuit intermediate between sensual pleasure and power . Like other goods popularly thought to be the means to hap- piness , wealth is itself neither good nor bad ; but the ...
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... wealth with corruption : Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane . ( 1. 690-2 . ) Later in the poem Michael comments on a part of the his- torical panorama he is presenting : For a while ...
... wealth with corruption : Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane . ( 1. 690-2 . ) Later in the poem Michael comments on a part of the his- torical panorama he is presenting : For a while ...
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... wealth causes its own ruin . So Socrates had argued : The excess of wealth , and the neglect of all else but money- making , destroyed oligarchy . ( Rep . 8. 562. ) Further , against the many who suppose wealth to be the object of the ...
... wealth causes its own ruin . So Socrates had argued : The excess of wealth , and the neglect of all else but money- making , destroyed oligarchy . ( Rep . 8. 562. ) Further , against the many who suppose wealth to be the object of the ...
Contents
Pleasure Wealth Fame | 69 |
Knowledge | 101 |
The Theory of Ideas | 131 |
Copyright | |
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