Il Convito; the Banquet of Dante Alighieri
Il Convito; the Banquet of Dante Alighieri
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And of these, who from Epicurus are named Epicureans, was Torquatus, a noble Roman, descended from the blood of the glorious Torquatus mention of whom I made above. There were others, and they had their rise from Socrates, and then from his successor, Plato, who, looking more subtly, and see- ing that in our actions it was possible to sin, and that one sinned in too much and in too little, said that our action, without excess and without defect, measured to the due mean of our own choice, is vi...rtue, and virtue is the aim of man ; and they called it action with virtue. And these were called Academicians, as was Plato and Speusippus, his nephew ; they were thus called from the place where Plato taught, that is, the Academy ; neither from Socrates did they take or assume any word, because in his Philosophy nothing was affirmed. Truly Aristotle, who had his surname from Stagira, and Xenocrates of Chalcedon, his com- panion, through the genius, almost Divine, which Nature had put into Aristotle, knowing this end by means of the Socratic method, with the Academic file, as it were, reduced Moral Philosophy to perfec- tion, and especially Aristotle.
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And of these, who from Epicurus are named Epicureans, was Torquatus, a noble Roman, descended from the blood of the glorious Torquatus mention of whom I made above. There were others, and they had their rise from Socrates, and then from his successor, Plato, who, looking more subtly, and see- ing that in our actions it was possible to sin, and that one sinned in too much and in too little, said that our action, without excess and without defect, measured to the due mean of our own choice, is vi...rtue, and virtue is the aim of man ; and they called it action with virtue. And these were called Academicians, as was Plato and Speusippus, his nephew ; they were thus called from the place where Plato taught, that is, the Academy ; neither from Socrates did they take or assume any word, because in his Philosophy nothing was affirmed. Truly Aristotle, who had his surname from Stagira, and Xenocrates of Chalcedon, his com- panion, through the genius, almost Divine, which Nature had put into Aristotle, knowing this end by means of the Socratic method, with the Academic file, as it were, reduced Moral Philosophy to perfec- tion, and especially Aristotle.
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