A Companion to Plato's Republic for English Readers Being a Commentary Adapted to Davies And Vaughan's Translation
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' Fear and shame,' — physical and moral fear, representing together the whole influence of the social order upon a Greek. ' Shame,' the untranslatable term ' aidos,' which might also be rendered ' honour ' or ' self-respect.' 22. ' Evils of a very petty nature.' Perhaps we might ven- 465 C ture to say that here as elsewhere Plato is 'not ideal enough.' Though undoubtedly grave evils and losses may attach to our daily worries, yet it would seem that in the true ideal they must be conquered and n...ot run away from. They constitute the discipline of life, and the contact by which we feel and act upon the realities of character in ourselves and in others. If ever we meet with a fugitive and cloistered virtue, it does not impress us as having a hold upon the real world. 176. 7. ' Some time back we were accused ' : see Book iv. E beginning and notes. 19. ' Much more glorious and desirable.' This could only 466 A be urged with any show of reason upon a people whose current idea of happiness included energy and devotion.
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