{"id":54,"date":"2005-09-30T23:53:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T03:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-09-30T23:54:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T03:54:51","slug":"dueling-quotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Dueling Quotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aristotle’s is well-known, the first sentence of the Metaphysics<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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pántes hoi ánthro<\/u>poi toû eidénai orégontai phúsei.<\/em><\/p>\n

All humans by nature desire knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Plato’s is less well-known, being tucked away in a complex argument in Book VII of the Republic<\/em> (535e), where Socrates describes:<\/p>\n

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anápe<\/u>ron psukhé<\/u>n . . . hè<\/u> àn tò mèn hekoúsion pseûdos misê<\/u>i kaì khalepô<\/u>s phére<\/u>i auté<\/u> te kaì hetéro<\/u>n pseudoméno<\/u>n huperaganaktê<\/u>i, tò d’ akoúsion eukólo<\/u>s prosdékhe<\/u>tai kaì amathaínousá pou haliskoméne<\/u> mè<\/u> aganaktê<\/u>i, all’ eukherô<\/u>s hó<\/u>sper the<\/u>ríon húeion en amathíai molúne<\/u>tai.<\/em><\/p>\n

. . . the lame soul which hates the voluntary falsehood and not only cannot bear to lie itself but is greatly angered when others lie, yet cheerfully accepts the involuntary falsehood and is not distressed when caught in ignorance of something, but wallows in ignorance like a brutal hog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aristotle’s is well-known, the first sentence of the Metaphysics: pántes hoi ánthropoi toû eidénai orégontai phúsei. All humans by nature desire knowledge. Plato’s is less well-known, being tucked away in a complex argument in Book VII of the Republic (535e), … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}