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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: contemplation of his actual self.
But Socrates broke in: Pray, why then, if you bear about this lively
image, why do you give me so much trouble, dragging me to this and
that place, where you hope to see him?
Crit. For this good reason, Socrates, the sight of him inspires
gladness, whilst his phantom brings not joy so much as it engenders
longing.
At this point Hermogenes protested: I find it most unlike you,
Socrates, to treat thus negligently one so passion-crazed as
Critobulus.
Socrates replied: Do you suppose the sad condition of the patient
The Symposium |
