mv: ‘./input-file.zip’ and ‘./input-file.zip’ are the same file Creating study carrel named plato-from-gutenberg Initializing database Unzipping Archive: input-file.zip creating: ./tmp/input/input-file/ inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1616.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1636.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1642.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1635.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1687.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1682.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1750.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1744.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1738.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1672.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1726.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1735.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1600.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1591.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1598.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1584.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1658.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1643.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1657.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1572.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1580.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1579.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1571.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1676.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1681.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1677.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/1673.txt inflating: ./tmp/input/input-file/metadata.csv caution: excluded filename not matched: *MACOSX* === updating bibliographic database Building study carrel named plato-from-gutenberg FILE: cache/1642.txt OUTPUT: txt/1642.txt FILE: cache/1687.txt OUTPUT: txt/1687.txt FILE: cache/1636.txt OUTPUT: txt/1636.txt FILE: cache/1682.txt OUTPUT: txt/1682.txt FILE: cache/1738.txt OUTPUT: txt/1738.txt FILE: cache/1635.txt OUTPUT: txt/1635.txt FILE: cache/1744.txt OUTPUT: txt/1744.txt FILE: cache/1598.txt OUTPUT: txt/1598.txt FILE: cache/1584.txt OUTPUT: txt/1584.txt FILE: cache/1616.txt OUTPUT: txt/1616.txt FILE: cache/1735.txt OUTPUT: txt/1735.txt FILE: cache/1643.txt OUTPUT: txt/1643.txt FILE: cache/1579.txt OUTPUT: txt/1579.txt FILE: cache/1672.txt OUTPUT: txt/1672.txt FILE: cache/1676.txt OUTPUT: txt/1676.txt FILE: cache/1726.txt OUTPUT: txt/1726.txt FILE: cache/1658.txt OUTPUT: txt/1658.txt FILE: cache/1580.txt OUTPUT: txt/1580.txt FILE: cache/1571.txt OUTPUT: txt/1571.txt FILE: cache/1600.txt OUTPUT: txt/1600.txt FILE: cache/1657.txt OUTPUT: txt/1657.txt FILE: cache/1673.txt OUTPUT: txt/1673.txt FILE: cache/1681.txt OUTPUT: txt/1681.txt FILE: cache/1572.txt OUTPUT: txt/1572.txt FILE: cache/1591.txt OUTPUT: txt/1591.txt FILE: cache/1677.txt OUTPUT: txt/1677.txt FILE: cache/1750.txt OUTPUT: txt/1750.txt === file2bib.sh === id: 1657 author: Plato title: Crito date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1657.txt cache: ./cache/1657.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'1657.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 1657 txt/../ent/1657.ent 1657 txt/../pos/1657.pos 1657 txt/../wrd/1657.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 1677 txt/../wrd/1677.wrd 1677 txt/../pos/1677.pos 1681 txt/../wrd/1681.wrd 1635 txt/../wrd/1635.wrd 1681 txt/../pos/1681.pos 1635 txt/../pos/1635.pos 1681 txt/../ent/1681.ent 1642 txt/../wrd/1642.wrd 1635 txt/../ent/1635.ent 1682 txt/../pos/1682.pos 1673 txt/../wrd/1673.wrd 1584 txt/../pos/1584.pos 1673 txt/../pos/1673.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 1677 author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title: Alcibiades II date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1677.txt cache: ./cache/1677.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; 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charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1635.txt' 1579 txt/../wrd/1579.wrd 1642 txt/../ent/1642.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1642 author: Plato title: Euthyphro date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1642.txt cache: ./cache/1642.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1642.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1673 author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title: Lesser Hippias date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1673.txt cache: ./cache/1673.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1673.txt' 1584 txt/../ent/1584.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1571 author: Plato title: Critias date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1571.txt cache: ./cache/1571.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1571.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1682 author: Plato title: Menexenus date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1682.txt cache: ./cache/1682.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1682.txt' 1676 txt/../pos/1676.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 1579 author: Plato title: Lysis date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1579.txt cache: ./cache/1579.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1579.txt' 1676 txt/../wrd/1676.wrd 1579 txt/../ent/1579.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1584 author: Plato title: Laches date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1584.txt cache: ./cache/1584.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; 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charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1676.txt' 1591 txt/../ent/1591.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1643 author: Plato title: Meno date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1643.txt cache: ./cache/1643.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1643.txt' 1687 txt/../wrd/1687.wrd 1687 txt/../pos/1687.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 1598 author: Plato title: Euthydemus date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1598.txt cache: ./cache/1598.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1598.txt' 1738 txt/../pos/1738.pos 1636 txt/../wrd/1636.wrd 1600 txt/../ent/1600.ent 1636 txt/../pos/1636.pos 1735 txt/../pos/1735.pos 1744 txt/../pos/1744.pos 1735 txt/../wrd/1735.wrd 1738 txt/../wrd/1738.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 1591 author: Plato title: Protagoras date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1591.txt cache: ./cache/1591.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1591.txt' 1658 txt/../wrd/1658.wrd 1658 txt/../pos/1658.pos 1744 txt/../wrd/1744.wrd 1636 txt/../ent/1636.ent 1616 txt/../pos/1616.pos 1738 txt/../ent/1738.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1687 author: Plato title: Parmenides date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1687.txt cache: ./cache/1687.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1687.txt' 1687 txt/../ent/1687.ent 1616 txt/../wrd/1616.wrd 1672 txt/../pos/1672.pos 1658 txt/../ent/1658.ent 1744 txt/../ent/1744.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1600 author: Plato title: Symposium date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1600.txt cache: ./cache/1600.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1600.txt' 1735 txt/../ent/1735.ent 1616 txt/../ent/1616.ent 1726 txt/../pos/1726.pos 1672 txt/../wrd/1672.wrd 1572 txt/../pos/1572.pos 1726 txt/../wrd/1726.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 1636 author: Plato title: Phaedrus date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1636.txt cache: ./cache/1636.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1636.txt' 1572 txt/../wrd/1572.wrd 1672 txt/../ent/1672.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1738 author: Plato title: Statesman date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1738.txt cache: ./cache/1738.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1738.txt' 1726 txt/../ent/1726.ent 1572 txt/../ent/1572.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1658 author: Plato title: Phaedo date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1658.txt cache: ./cache/1658.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'1658.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1735 author: Plato title: Sophist date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1735.txt cache: ./cache/1735.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1735.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1744 author: Plato title: Philebus date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1744.txt cache: ./cache/1744.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1744.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1616 author: Plato title: Cratylus date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1616.txt cache: ./cache/1616.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'1616.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1672 author: Plato title: Gorgias date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1672.txt cache: ./cache/1672.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'1672.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1726 author: Plato title: Theaetetus date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1726.txt cache: ./cache/1726.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'1726.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 1572 author: Plato title: Timaeus date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1572.txt cache: ./cache/1572.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'1572.txt' 1750 txt/../pos/1750.pos 1750 txt/../wrd/1750.wrd 1750 txt/../ent/1750.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 1750 author: Plato title: Laws date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1750.txt cache: ./cache/1750.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'1750.txt' Done mapping. Reducing plato-from-gutenberg === reduce.pl bib === id = 1642 author = Plato title = Euthyphro date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9242 sentences = 737 flesch = 83 summary = Euthyphro replies, that 'Piety is what is dear to the gods, and impiety SOCRATES: A young man who is little known, Euthyphro; and I hardly know EUTHYPHRO: Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety SOCRATES: And further, Euthyphro, the gods were admitted to have EUTHYPHRO: Yes, Socrates, the nature of the differences about which we SOCRATES: And the quarrels of the gods, noble Euthyphro, when they EUTHYPHRO: Yes. SOCRATES: Is not that which is loved in some state either of becoming or EUTHYPHRO: Yes. SOCRATES: And that which is dear to the gods is loved by them, and is in SOCRATES: Then that which is dear to the gods, Euthyphro, is not holy, EUTHYPHRO: Yes. SOCRATES: But that which is dear to the gods is dear to them because it SOCRATES: Then piety, Euthyphro, is an art which gods and men have of cache = ./cache/1642.txt txt = ./txt/1642.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1636 author = Plato title = Phaedrus date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 38382 sentences = 1878 flesch = 75 summary = of philosophy to love and to art in general, and to the human soul, will PHAEDRUS: My tale, Socrates, is one of your sort, for love was the theme PHAEDRUS: What do you mean, my good Socrates? PHAEDRUS: I should like to know, Socrates, whether the place is not PHAEDRUS: Now don't talk in that way, Socrates, but let me have your SOCRATES: Your love of discourse, Phaedrus, is superhuman, simply SOCRATES: Only think, my good Phaedrus, what an utter want of delicacy PHAEDRUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And a professor of the art will make the same thing appear to PHAEDRUS: I quite admit, Socrates, that the art of rhetoric which these SOCRATES: And do you think that you can know the nature of the soul PHAEDRUS: You may very likely be right, Socrates. PHAEDRUS: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you know how you can speak or act about rhetoric in a cache = ./cache/1636.txt txt = ./txt/1636.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1687 author = Plato title = Parmenides date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36232 sentences = 2184 flesch = 79 summary = ideas of likeness, unity, and the rest, exist apart from individuals so of other ideas?' 'Yes, that is my meaning.' 'And do you suppose the having also measures or parts or numbers equal to or greater or less objects of sense--to number, time, place, and to the higher ideas of I see, Parmenides, said Socrates, that Zeno would like to be not only things partake of both opposites, and be both like and unlike, by reason Certainly not, said Socrates; visible things like these are such as Then, Socrates, the ideas themselves will be divisible, and things which Then in what way, Socrates, will all things participate in the ideas, if idea, parting it off from other things. Because, Socrates, said Parmenides, we have admitted that the ideas are these and the like difficulties, does away with ideas of things and will partake of equality or likeness of time; and we said that the one did cache = ./cache/1687.txt txt = ./txt/1687.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1682 author = Plato title = Menexenus date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10174 sentences = 389 flesch = 67 summary = genuineness of ancient writings are the following: Shorter works are Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable Socratic literature Plato, under their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral Oration, the writings, are the Lesser Hippias, the Menexenus or Funeral Oration, the genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias a true Socratic The author of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is evidently character of Socrates, Plato, who knows so well how to give a hint, or Whether the Menexenus is a genuine writing of Plato, or an imitation PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus. MENEXENUS: Nay, Socrates, let us have the speech, whether Aspasia's or MENEXENUS: Far otherwise, Socrates; let us by all means have the speech. for the men of Marathon only showed the Hellenes that it was possible to MENEXENUS: I have often met Aspasia, Socrates, and know what she is cache = ./cache/1682.txt txt = ./txt/1682.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1738 author = Plato title = Statesman date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 40342 sentences = 2682 flesch = 78 summary = rules, but by making his art a law, and, like him, the true governor YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Then the sciences must be divided as before? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Where shall we discover the path of the Statesman? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Which was, unmistakeably, one of the arts of knowledge? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: In that case, there was already implied a division of all YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: But then we ought not to divide, as we did, taking the whole YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: But the remainder of the hornless herd of tame animals will YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: And this the argument defined to be the art of rearing, not YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: And the art of measurement has to be divided into two parts, YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: So now, and with still more reason, all arts which make any cache = ./cache/1738.txt txt = ./txt/1738.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1750 author = Plato title = Laws date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 239974 sentences = 10814 flesch = 73 summary = simple law would be as follows:--A man shall marry between the ages of habits of law, that they may form a right judgment of good and bad men. our legislator, let us indite a law about wounding, which shall run as God; and let the law follow:--He who fails in his undertaking shall pay well-ordered state; and therefore our law shall be as follows:--No one thoughts like these; and let him hear the law:--He who is enrolled shall ATHENIAN: Then in a city which has good laws, or in future ages is to ATHENIAN: In the first place, let us speak of the laws about ATHENIAN: But what shall be our next musical law or type? Let us first of all, then, have a class of laws which shall be called And let this be the simple form of the law: No man shall have cache = ./cache/1750.txt txt = ./txt/1750.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1744 author = Plato title = Philebus date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45601 sentences = 3268 flesch = 79 summary = SOCRATES: Philebus is right in asking that question of us, Protarchus. SOCRATES: Let there be no wisdom in the life of pleasure, nor any PROTARCHUS: Truly, Socrates, pleasure appears to me to have had a fall; SOCRATES: Have pleasure and pain a limit, or do they belong to the class SOCRATES: Very good; let us begin then, Protarchus, by asking a PROTARCHUS: But how, Socrates, can there be false pleasures and pains? PROTARCHUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And such a thing as pleasure? PROTARCHUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And pleasure and pain, as I was just now saying, are often PROTARCHUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And must we not attribute to pleasure and pain a similar real SOCRATES: Then if we want to see the true nature of pleasures as a SOCRATES: Very good, and if this be true, then the greatest pleasures SOCRATES: Yes, Protarchus, quite true of the mixed pleasures, which PROTARCHUS: Then what pleasures, Socrates, should we be right in cache = ./cache/1744.txt txt = ./txt/1744.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1584 author = Plato title = Laches date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12295 sentences = 834 flesch = 85 summary = Socrates, as he is younger than either Nicias or Laches, prefers to SOCRATES: And therefore, Laches and Nicias, as Lysimachus and Melesias, SOCRATES: Let us, Nicias and Laches, comply with the request of LACHES: Yes. SOCRATES: And that which we know we must surely be able to tell? LACHES: Indeed, Socrates, I see no difficulty in answering; he is a man NICIAS: I have been thinking, Socrates, that you and Laches are not LACHES: Yes. SOCRATES: Tell him then, Nicias, what you mean by this wisdom; for you NICIAS: I mean to say, Laches, that courage is the knowledge of that NICIAS: Laches does not want to instruct me, Socrates; but having been SOCRATES: What is Laches saying, Nicias? LACHES: Do you, Socrates, if you like, ask him: I think that I have SOCRATES: And courage, my friend, is, as you say, a knowledge of the SOCRATES: Then, Nicias, we have not discovered what courage is. cache = ./cache/1584.txt txt = ./txt/1584.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1616 author = Plato title = Cratylus date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53085 sentences = 3210 flesch = 76 summary = Socrates replies, that hard is knowledge, and the nature of names is HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then, if propositions may be true and false, names may be true HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: And will there be so many names of each thing as everybody HERMOGENES: Yes, Socrates, I can conceive no correctness of names other HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then, as to names: ought not our legislator also to know how SOCRATES: And what is the nature of this truth or correctness of names? HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: The same names, then, ought to be assigned to those who follow SOCRATES: I mean to say that the word 'man' implies that other animals HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: Is not mind that which called (kalesan) things by their names, CRATYLUS: Very true, Socrates; but the case of language, you see, is CRATYLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And the proper letters are those which are like the things? cache = ./cache/1616.txt txt = ./txt/1616.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1591 author = Plato title = Protagoras date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28115 sentences = 1337 flesch = 76 summary = know whether pleasure is not the only good, and pain the only evil? the help of Protagoras in a different order, asking (1) What virtue is, adversary Socrates in the right; or that in this or that passage--e.g. in the explanation of good as pleasure--Plato is inconsistent with Dialogue, when Socrates is arguing that 'pleasure is the only good,' SOCRATES: Yes; and I have heard and said many things. incurable--if what I am saying be true, good men have their sons taught When you say, Protagoras, that things inexpedient are good, do you mean But you see, Socrates, said Callias, that Protagoras may fairly claim to Hippias said: I think, Socrates, that you have given a very good I said: I wish Protagoras either to ask or answer as he is inclined; but I agree with you, Socrates, said Protagoras; and not only so, but I, cache = ./cache/1591.txt txt = ./txt/1591.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1672 author = Plato title = Gorgias date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 59621 sentences = 3914 flesch = 81 summary = Polus asks, 'What thing?' and Socrates answers, An experience or routine SOCRATES: Very good, Callicles; but will he answer our questions? GORGIAS: Yes, Socrates, I do think myself good at that. GORGIAS: I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in POLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And are not all things either good or evil, or intermediate SOCRATES: Then I was right in saying that a man may do what seems good POLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: Tell me, then, when do you say that they are good and when CALLICLES: Yes. SOCRATES: But he does not cease from good and evil at the same moment, CALLICLES: Yes. SOCRATES: And do you call the fools and cowards good men? CALLICLES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then must we not infer, that the bad man is as good and bad SOCRATES: Yes, Callicles, they were good men, if, as you said at first, cache = ./cache/1672.txt txt = ./txt/1672.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1635 author = Plato title = Ion date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6556 sentences = 493 flesch = 85 summary = rhapsodes, like Ion, are the interpreters of single poets. rejoins Socrates, when Homer speaks of the arts, as for example, of SOCRATES: And can you interpret better what Homer says, or what Hesiod ION: Yes, Socrates; but not in the same way as Homer. ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And he who judges of the good will be the same as he who ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And you say that Homer and the other poets, such as Hesiod and ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And when any one acquires any other art as a whole, the same SOCRATES: Why, does not Homer speak in many passages about arts? ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And the art of the rhapsode is different from that of the ION: Yes. SOCRATES: Then upon your own showing the rhapsode, and the art of the ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And in judging of the general's art, do you judge of it as a cache = ./cache/1635.txt txt = ./txt/1635.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1658 author = Plato title = Phaedo date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 43005 sentences = 1926 flesch = 74 summary = there is no God, there is no existence of the soul after death.' For Yes, Socrates, said Cebes, there seems to be truth in what you say. dead, and as has been said of old, some far better thing for the good True, Cebes, said Socrates; and shall I suggest that we converse a There is no escape, Socrates, said Cebes; and to me your argument seems Yes. Then, Simmias, our souls must also have existed without bodies before Yes. Then the soul is more like to the unseen, and the body to the seen? Yes, that is very likely, Cebes; and these must be the souls, not of the Very good, Socrates, said Simmias; then I will tell you my difficulty, soul existed before she took the form and body of man, and was made up thousand of the opposition of the soul to the things of the body. cache = ./cache/1658.txt txt = ./txt/1658.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1598 author = Plato title = Euthydemus date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21080 sentences = 1294 flesch = 81 summary = Crito, Cleinias, Euthydemus, Dionysodorus, Ctesippus. and then I said to Cleinias: Here are two wise men, Euthydemus and Certainly, Socrates, said Dionysodorus; our art will do both. Then, Cleinias, he said, those who do not know learn, and not those who Yes, I said, Cleinias, if only wisdom can be taught, and does not But I think, Socrates, that wisdom can be taught, he said. Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; but in saying this, he says what is Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; but he speaks of things in a certain CRITO: And do you mean, Socrates, that the youngster said all this? SOCRATES: And does the kingly art make men wise and good? Yes, I said, I know many things, but not anything of much importance. Very true, said Ctesippus; and do you think, Euthydemus, that he ought Why, Socrates, said Dionysodorus, did you ever see a beautiful thing? cache = ./cache/1598.txt txt = ./txt/1598.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1726 author = Plato title = Theaetetus date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 66182 sentences = 4000 flesch = 78 summary = answer to Socrates, proceeds to define knowledge as true opinion, with THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And is that different in any way from knowledge? THEAETETUS: No. SOCRATES: And when a man is asked what science or knowledge is, to THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And 'appears to him' means the same as 'he perceives.' THEAETETUS: I should say 'No,' Socrates, if I were to speak my mind THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And you would admit that there is such a thing as memory? SOCRATES: Yet perception is knowledge: so at least Theaetetus and I were THEAETETUS: I cannot say, Socrates, that all opinion is knowledge, THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind THEAETETUS: Yes, Socrates, you have described the nature of opinion with THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And so we are rid of the difficulty of a man's not knowing THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: In the same general way, we might also have true opinion about cache = ./cache/1726.txt txt = ./txt/1726.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1572 author = Plato title = Timaeus date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 73125 sentences = 2489 flesch = 63 summary = fairest work in the order of nature, and the world became a living soul which is time, having an uniform motion according to number, parted into planets; and he ordered the younger gods to frame human bodies for them the world portions of earth, air, fire, water, hereafter to be returned, In the next place, the gods gave a forward motion to the human body, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids a briny nature then two half-solid bodies are formed by separating the particles of earth and air, two kinds of globules are formed--one of The gods also mingled natures akin to that of man with other forms and of men, whom God placed in the uttermost parts of the world in return elements which are in number four, the body of the world was created, say, was their nature at that time, and God fashioned them by form and cache = ./cache/1572.txt txt = ./txt/1572.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1673 author = Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title = Lesser Hippias date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9440 sentences = 684 flesch = 76 summary = Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable Socratic literature genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias a true Socratic The Lesser Hippias may be compared with the earlier dialogues of Plato, PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Eudicus, Socrates, Hippias. SOCRATES: I should greatly like, Eudicus, to ask Hippias the meaning HIPPIAS: Exactly so, Socrates; it is the character of Odysseus, as he is HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: And are they wily, and do they deceive by reason of their HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: Then a man who has not the power of speaking falsely and is HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: He and no one else is good at it? HIPPIAS: There you are wrong, Socrates; for in so far as Achilles speaks HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: And will our minds be better if they do wrong and make HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: Then the good man will voluntarily do wrong, and the bad man cache = ./cache/1673.txt txt = ./txt/1673.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1600 author = Plato title = Symposium date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 32810 sentences = 1301 flesch = 71 summary = the gods, who honour the love of the beloved above that of the lover, is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love wise woman of Mantinea, who, like Agathon, had spoken first of love and Socrates, like Agathon, had told her that Love is a powers of Socrates and his love of the fair, which receive a similar love is of the good, and no man can desire that which he has. Many things were said by Phaedrus about Love in 'And how, Socrates,' she said with a smile, 'can Love be acknowledged to rejoined, 'are not all men, Socrates, said to love, but only some of nothing.' 'Then,' she said, 'the simple truth is, that men love the 'Then if this be the nature of love, can you tell me further,' she said, Well then, said Eryximachus, if you like praise Socrates. cache = ./cache/1600.txt txt = ./txt/1600.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1643 author = Plato title = Meno date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 22294 sentences = 1786 flesch = 83 summary = Socrates said that virtue is knowledge, so Spinoza would have maintained MENO: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching SOCRATES: When you say, Meno, that there is one virtue of a man, another MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then all men are good in the same way, and by participation in MENO: Yes, Socrates; I agree there; for justice is virtue. MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you mean that they think the evils which they desire, to be SOCRATES: And do you really imagine, Meno, that a man knows evils to be MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then he who does not know may still have true notions of that MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then virtue is profitable? MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: But when we said that a man cannot be a good guide unless he MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as we thought, it cache = ./cache/1643.txt txt = ./txt/1643.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1579 author = Plato title = Lysis date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 12557 sentences = 745 flesch = 84 summary = Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Socrates asks Lysis whether his father and mother do not love the indifferent, which is neither good nor evil, should be the friend indifferent becomes a friend of the good for the sake of getting rid of unsolved, and the three friends, Socrates, Lysis, and Menexenus, are Yes, he said, your old friend and admirer, Miccus. Yes, I said; but I should like to know first, what is expected of me, Do you mean, I said, that you disown the love of the person whom he says And if so, that which is neither good nor evil can have no friend which itself had become evil it would not still desire and love the good; for, as we were saying, the evil cannot be the friend of the good. now become evil only, and the good was supposed to have no friendship cache = ./cache/1579.txt txt = ./txt/1579.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1681 author = Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title = Eryxias date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 7121 sentences = 507 flesch = 84 summary = PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Eryxias, Erasistratus, Critias. ask, Well, Socrates and Eryxias and Erasistratus, can you tell me what Yes, said Eryxias, interposing, but what use would it be if a man had And do you think, said the youth, that doing good things is like SOCRATES: What is useful to us, then, is wealth, and what is useless to SOCRATES: My argument, Critias (I said), appears to have given you the SOCRATES: And would you say that those things are useful which are SOCRATES: Then you consider that a man never wants any of these things SOCRATES: But can a bad thing be used to carry out a good purpose? SOCRATES: And do we think it possible that a thing should be useful for CRITIAS: No. SOCRATES: Then if these things are useful for supplying the needs of the SOCRATES: And he to whom the greatest number of things are useful cache = ./cache/1681.txt txt = ./txt/1681.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1580 author = Plato title = Charmides date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21869 sentences = 1065 flesch = 72 summary = Socrates of any definition of temperance in which an element of science I ought to know you, he replied, for there is a great deal said about Yes, I said, Charmides; and indeed I think that you ought to excel I said to him: That is a natural reply, Charmides, and I think that he said: My opinion is, Socrates, that temperance makes a man ashamed or Very good, I said; and did you not admit, just now, that temperance is Yes, I said, Critias; but you come to me as though I professed to know asking in what wisdom or temperance differs from the other sciences, and Yes, Socrates, he said; and that I think is certainly true: for he who has this science or knowledge which knows itself will become like the Say that he knows health;--not wisdom or temperance, but the art of cache = ./cache/1580.txt txt = ./txt/1580.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1676 author = Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title = Alcibiades I date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 18733 sentences = 2041 flesch = 84 summary = ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: But suppose the Athenians to deliberate with whom they ought ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And suppose that we wanted to know not only what men are like, ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And is not the same person able to persuade one individual ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And are honourable things sometimes good and sometimes not ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: You mean in such a case as the following:--In time of war, men ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And they are honourable in so far as they are good, and ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And the good is expedient? ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: But when people think that they do not know, they entrust ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then upon this view of the matter the same man is good and ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then what is the meaning of being able to rule over men who SOCRATES: You mean, that if you did not know Alcibiades, there would cache = ./cache/1676.txt txt = ./txt/1676.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 1677 author = Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title = Alcibiades II date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 5977 sentences = 506 flesch = 85 summary = PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Alcibiades. SOCRATES: Are you going, Alcibiades, to offer prayer to Zeus? ALCIBIADES: Yes, Socrates, but you are speaking of a madman: surely you ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And every disease ophthalmia? ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: The senseless are those who do not know this? ALCIBIADES: Good words, Socrates, prithee. ALCIBIADES: No. SOCRATES: That ignorance is bad then, it would appear, which is of the ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: The many are foolish, the few wise? SOCRATES: Nor again, I suppose, a person who knows the art of war, but ALCIBIADES: No. SOCRATES: Nor, once more, a person who knows how to kill another or to ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And if a person does that which he knows or supposes that he ALCIBIADES: But I do not think that it has, Socrates: at least, if the ALCIBIADES: I agree, Socrates, with you and with the God, whom, indeed, cache = ./cache/1677.txt txt = ./txt/1677.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1735 author = Plato title = Sophist date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45691 sentences = 3444 flesch = 80 summary = STRANGER: Let us begin by asking whether he is a man having art or not THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And there is no reason why the art of hunting should not be THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And animal hunting may be truly said to have two divisions, THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And this sort of hunting may be further divided also into two THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And controversy may be of two kinds. THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: Then if, as I was saying, there is one art which includes all THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And in the soul there are two kinds of evil. THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And yet he who identifies the name with the thing will be THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And we shall find this to be generally true of art or the THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And therefore speaks of things which are not as if they were? cache = ./cache/1735.txt txt = ./txt/1735.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1571 author = Plato title = Critias date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9885 sentences = 310 flesch = 63 summary = division of the earth Poseidon obtained as his portion the island of in size, two of land and three of sea, which his divine power readily and him he made king of the centre island, while to his twin brother, through the zones of land from the island to the sea. on a column of orichalcum in the temple of Poseidon, at which the kings inhabitants with the barbaric greatness of the island of Atlantis, Plato flows off the bare earth into the sea, but, having an abundant supply receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children by a mortal king, he named Atlas, and after him the whole island and the ocean many things were brought to them from foreign countries, and the island middle of the island, at the temple of Poseidon, whither the kings were Poseidon; 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one dimension: socrates; shall; hippias file(s): ./cache/1726.txt, ./cache/1750.txt, ./cache/1673.txt titles(s): Theaetetus | Laws | Lesser Hippias five topics; three dimensions: socrates good said; shall let athenian; socrates theaetetus stranger; body earth nature; annoyance quote unintelligent file(s): ./cache/1591.txt, ./cache/1750.txt, ./cache/1735.txt, ./cache/1572.txt, titles(s): Protagoras | Laws | Sophist | Timaeus | Crito Type: gutenberg title: plato-from-gutenberg date: 2021-01-09 time: 20:33 username: emorgan patron: Eric Morgan email: emorgan@nd.edu input: author:"Plato" NOT title:gutenberg NOT 150 ==== make-pages.sh htm files ==== make-pages.sh complex files ==== make-pages.sh named enities ==== making bibliographics id: 1616 author: Plato title: Cratylus date: words: 53085.0 sentences: 3210.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/1616.txt txt: ./txt/1616.txt summary: Socrates replies, that hard is knowledge, and the nature of names is HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then, if propositions may be true and false, names may be true HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: And will there be so many names of each thing as everybody HERMOGENES: Yes, Socrates, I can conceive no correctness of names other HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then, as to names: ought not our legislator also to know how SOCRATES: And what is the nature of this truth or correctness of names? HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: The same names, then, ought to be assigned to those who follow SOCRATES: I mean to say that the word ''man'' implies that other animals HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: Is not mind that which called (kalesan) things by their names, CRATYLUS: Very true, Socrates; but the case of language, you see, is CRATYLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And the proper letters are those which are like the things? id: 1636 author: Plato title: Phaedrus date: words: 38382.0 sentences: 1878.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/1636.txt txt: ./txt/1636.txt summary: of philosophy to love and to art in general, and to the human soul, will PHAEDRUS: My tale, Socrates, is one of your sort, for love was the theme PHAEDRUS: What do you mean, my good Socrates? PHAEDRUS: I should like to know, Socrates, whether the place is not PHAEDRUS: Now don''t talk in that way, Socrates, but let me have your SOCRATES: Your love of discourse, Phaedrus, is superhuman, simply SOCRATES: Only think, my good Phaedrus, what an utter want of delicacy PHAEDRUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And a professor of the art will make the same thing appear to PHAEDRUS: I quite admit, Socrates, that the art of rhetoric which these SOCRATES: And do you think that you can know the nature of the soul PHAEDRUS: You may very likely be right, Socrates. PHAEDRUS: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you know how you can speak or act about rhetoric in a id: 1642 author: Plato title: Euthyphro date: words: 9242.0 sentences: 737.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/1642.txt txt: ./txt/1642.txt summary: Euthyphro replies, that ''Piety is what is dear to the gods, and impiety SOCRATES: A young man who is little known, Euthyphro; and I hardly know EUTHYPHRO: Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety SOCRATES: And further, Euthyphro, the gods were admitted to have EUTHYPHRO: Yes, Socrates, the nature of the differences about which we SOCRATES: And the quarrels of the gods, noble Euthyphro, when they EUTHYPHRO: Yes. SOCRATES: Is not that which is loved in some state either of becoming or EUTHYPHRO: Yes. SOCRATES: And that which is dear to the gods is loved by them, and is in SOCRATES: Then that which is dear to the gods, Euthyphro, is not holy, EUTHYPHRO: Yes. SOCRATES: But that which is dear to the gods is dear to them because it SOCRATES: Then piety, Euthyphro, is an art which gods and men have of id: 1635 author: Plato title: Ion date: words: 6556.0 sentences: 493.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/1635.txt txt: ./txt/1635.txt summary: rhapsodes, like Ion, are the interpreters of single poets. rejoins Socrates, when Homer speaks of the arts, as for example, of SOCRATES: And can you interpret better what Homer says, or what Hesiod ION: Yes, Socrates; but not in the same way as Homer. ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And he who judges of the good will be the same as he who ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And you say that Homer and the other poets, such as Hesiod and ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And when any one acquires any other art as a whole, the same SOCRATES: Why, does not Homer speak in many passages about arts? ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And the art of the rhapsode is different from that of the ION: Yes. SOCRATES: Then upon your own showing the rhapsode, and the art of the ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And in judging of the general''s art, do you judge of it as a id: 1687 author: Plato title: Parmenides date: words: 36232.0 sentences: 2184.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/1687.txt txt: ./txt/1687.txt summary: ideas of likeness, unity, and the rest, exist apart from individuals so of other ideas?'' ''Yes, that is my meaning.'' ''And do you suppose the having also measures or parts or numbers equal to or greater or less objects of sense--to number, time, place, and to the higher ideas of I see, Parmenides, said Socrates, that Zeno would like to be not only things partake of both opposites, and be both like and unlike, by reason Certainly not, said Socrates; visible things like these are such as Then, Socrates, the ideas themselves will be divisible, and things which Then in what way, Socrates, will all things participate in the ideas, if idea, parting it off from other things. Because, Socrates, said Parmenides, we have admitted that the ideas are these and the like difficulties, does away with ideas of things and will partake of equality or likeness of time; and we said that the one did id: 1682 author: Plato title: Menexenus date: words: 10174.0 sentences: 389.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/1682.txt txt: ./txt/1682.txt summary: genuineness of ancient writings are the following: Shorter works are Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable Socratic literature Plato, under their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral Oration, the writings, are the Lesser Hippias, the Menexenus or Funeral Oration, the genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias a true Socratic The author of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is evidently character of Socrates, Plato, who knows so well how to give a hint, or Whether the Menexenus is a genuine writing of Plato, or an imitation PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus. MENEXENUS: Nay, Socrates, let us have the speech, whether Aspasia''s or MENEXENUS: Far otherwise, Socrates; let us by all means have the speech. for the men of Marathon only showed the Hellenes that it was possible to MENEXENUS: I have often met Aspasia, Socrates, and know what she is id: 1750 author: Plato title: Laws date: words: 239974.0 sentences: 10814.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/1750.txt txt: ./txt/1750.txt summary: simple law would be as follows:--A man shall marry between the ages of habits of law, that they may form a right judgment of good and bad men. our legislator, let us indite a law about wounding, which shall run as God; and let the law follow:--He who fails in his undertaking shall pay well-ordered state; and therefore our law shall be as follows:--No one thoughts like these; and let him hear the law:--He who is enrolled shall ATHENIAN: Then in a city which has good laws, or in future ages is to ATHENIAN: In the first place, let us speak of the laws about ATHENIAN: But what shall be our next musical law or type? Let us first of all, then, have a class of laws which shall be called And let this be the simple form of the law: No man shall have id: 1744 author: Plato title: Philebus date: words: 45601.0 sentences: 3268.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/1744.txt txt: ./txt/1744.txt summary: SOCRATES: Philebus is right in asking that question of us, Protarchus. SOCRATES: Let there be no wisdom in the life of pleasure, nor any PROTARCHUS: Truly, Socrates, pleasure appears to me to have had a fall; SOCRATES: Have pleasure and pain a limit, or do they belong to the class SOCRATES: Very good; let us begin then, Protarchus, by asking a PROTARCHUS: But how, Socrates, can there be false pleasures and pains? PROTARCHUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And such a thing as pleasure? PROTARCHUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And pleasure and pain, as I was just now saying, are often PROTARCHUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And must we not attribute to pleasure and pain a similar real SOCRATES: Then if we want to see the true nature of pleasures as a SOCRATES: Very good, and if this be true, then the greatest pleasures SOCRATES: Yes, Protarchus, quite true of the mixed pleasures, which PROTARCHUS: Then what pleasures, Socrates, should we be right in id: 1738 author: Plato title: Statesman date: words: 40342.0 sentences: 2682.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/1738.txt txt: ./txt/1738.txt summary: rules, but by making his art a law, and, like him, the true governor YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Then the sciences must be divided as before? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Where shall we discover the path of the Statesman? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: Which was, unmistakeably, one of the arts of knowledge? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: In that case, there was already implied a division of all YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: But then we ought not to divide, as we did, taking the whole YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: But the remainder of the hornless herd of tame animals will YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: And this the argument defined to be the art of rearing, not YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: And the art of measurement has to be divided into two parts, YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: So now, and with still more reason, all arts which make any id: 1672 author: Plato title: Gorgias date: words: 59621.0 sentences: 3914.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/1672.txt txt: ./txt/1672.txt summary: Polus asks, ''What thing?'' and Socrates answers, An experience or routine SOCRATES: Very good, Callicles; but will he answer our questions? GORGIAS: Yes, Socrates, I do think myself good at that. GORGIAS: I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in POLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And are not all things either good or evil, or intermediate SOCRATES: Then I was right in saying that a man may do what seems good POLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: Tell me, then, when do you say that they are good and when CALLICLES: Yes. SOCRATES: But he does not cease from good and evil at the same moment, CALLICLES: Yes. SOCRATES: And do you call the fools and cowards good men? CALLICLES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then must we not infer, that the bad man is as good and bad SOCRATES: Yes, Callicles, they were good men, if, as you said at first, id: 1726 author: Plato title: Theaetetus date: words: 66182.0 sentences: 4000.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/1726.txt txt: ./txt/1726.txt summary: answer to Socrates, proceeds to define knowledge as true opinion, with THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And is that different in any way from knowledge? THEAETETUS: No. SOCRATES: And when a man is asked what science or knowledge is, to THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And ''appears to him'' means the same as ''he perceives.'' THEAETETUS: I should say ''No,'' Socrates, if I were to speak my mind THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And you would admit that there is such a thing as memory? SOCRATES: Yet perception is knowledge: so at least Theaetetus and I were THEAETETUS: I cannot say, Socrates, that all opinion is knowledge, THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind THEAETETUS: Yes, Socrates, you have described the nature of opinion with THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And so we are rid of the difficulty of a man''s not knowing THEAETETUS: Yes. SOCRATES: In the same general way, we might also have true opinion about id: 1735 author: Plato title: Sophist date: words: 45691.0 sentences: 3444.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/1735.txt txt: ./txt/1735.txt summary: STRANGER: Let us begin by asking whether he is a man having art or not THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And there is no reason why the art of hunting should not be THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And animal hunting may be truly said to have two divisions, THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And this sort of hunting may be further divided also into two THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And controversy may be of two kinds. THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: Then if, as I was saying, there is one art which includes all THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And in the soul there are two kinds of evil. THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And yet he who identifies the name with the thing will be THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And we shall find this to be generally true of art or the THEAETETUS: Yes. STRANGER: And therefore speaks of things which are not as if they were? id: 1600 author: Plato title: Symposium date: words: 32810.0 sentences: 1301.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/1600.txt txt: ./txt/1600.txt summary: the gods, who honour the love of the beloved above that of the lover, is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love wise woman of Mantinea, who, like Agathon, had spoken first of love and Socrates, like Agathon, had told her that Love is a powers of Socrates and his love of the fair, which receive a similar love is of the good, and no man can desire that which he has. Many things were said by Phaedrus about Love in ''And how, Socrates,'' she said with a smile, ''can Love be acknowledged to rejoined, ''are not all men, Socrates, said to love, but only some of nothing.'' ''Then,'' she said, ''the simple truth is, that men love the ''Then if this be the nature of love, can you tell me further,'' she said, Well then, said Eryximachus, if you like praise Socrates. id: 1591 author: Plato title: Protagoras date: words: 28115.0 sentences: 1337.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/1591.txt txt: ./txt/1591.txt summary: know whether pleasure is not the only good, and pain the only evil? the help of Protagoras in a different order, asking (1) What virtue is, adversary Socrates in the right; or that in this or that passage--e.g. in the explanation of good as pleasure--Plato is inconsistent with Dialogue, when Socrates is arguing that ''pleasure is the only good,'' SOCRATES: Yes; and I have heard and said many things. incurable--if what I am saying be true, good men have their sons taught When you say, Protagoras, that things inexpedient are good, do you mean But you see, Socrates, said Callias, that Protagoras may fairly claim to Hippias said: I think, Socrates, that you have given a very good I said: I wish Protagoras either to ask or answer as he is inclined; but I agree with you, Socrates, said Protagoras; and not only so, but I, id: 1598 author: Plato title: Euthydemus date: words: 21080.0 sentences: 1294.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/1598.txt txt: ./txt/1598.txt summary: Crito, Cleinias, Euthydemus, Dionysodorus, Ctesippus. and then I said to Cleinias: Here are two wise men, Euthydemus and Certainly, Socrates, said Dionysodorus; our art will do both. Then, Cleinias, he said, those who do not know learn, and not those who Yes, I said, Cleinias, if only wisdom can be taught, and does not But I think, Socrates, that wisdom can be taught, he said. Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; but in saying this, he says what is Yes, Euthydemus, said Ctesippus; but he speaks of things in a certain CRITO: And do you mean, Socrates, that the youngster said all this? SOCRATES: And does the kingly art make men wise and good? Yes, I said, I know many things, but not anything of much importance. Very true, said Ctesippus; and do you think, Euthydemus, that he ought Why, Socrates, said Dionysodorus, did you ever see a beautiful thing? id: 1584 author: Plato title: Laches date: words: 12295.0 sentences: 834.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/1584.txt txt: ./txt/1584.txt summary: Socrates, as he is younger than either Nicias or Laches, prefers to SOCRATES: And therefore, Laches and Nicias, as Lysimachus and Melesias, SOCRATES: Let us, Nicias and Laches, comply with the request of LACHES: Yes. SOCRATES: And that which we know we must surely be able to tell? LACHES: Indeed, Socrates, I see no difficulty in answering; he is a man NICIAS: I have been thinking, Socrates, that you and Laches are not LACHES: Yes. SOCRATES: Tell him then, Nicias, what you mean by this wisdom; for you NICIAS: I mean to say, Laches, that courage is the knowledge of that NICIAS: Laches does not want to instruct me, Socrates; but having been SOCRATES: What is Laches saying, Nicias? LACHES: Do you, Socrates, if you like, ask him: I think that I have SOCRATES: And courage, my friend, is, as you say, a knowledge of the SOCRATES: Then, Nicias, we have not discovered what courage is. id: 1658 author: Plato title: Phaedo date: words: 43005.0 sentences: 1926.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/1658.txt txt: ./txt/1658.txt summary: there is no God, there is no existence of the soul after death.'' For Yes, Socrates, said Cebes, there seems to be truth in what you say. dead, and as has been said of old, some far better thing for the good True, Cebes, said Socrates; and shall I suggest that we converse a There is no escape, Socrates, said Cebes; and to me your argument seems Yes. Then, Simmias, our souls must also have existed without bodies before Yes. Then the soul is more like to the unseen, and the body to the seen? Yes, that is very likely, Cebes; and these must be the souls, not of the Very good, Socrates, said Simmias; then I will tell you my difficulty, soul existed before she took the form and body of man, and was made up thousand of the opposition of the soul to the things of the body. id: 1643 author: Plato title: Meno date: words: 22294.0 sentences: 1786.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/1643.txt txt: ./txt/1643.txt summary: Socrates said that virtue is knowledge, so Spinoza would have maintained MENO: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching SOCRATES: When you say, Meno, that there is one virtue of a man, another MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then all men are good in the same way, and by participation in MENO: Yes, Socrates; I agree there; for justice is virtue. MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you mean that they think the evils which they desire, to be SOCRATES: And do you really imagine, Meno, that a man knows evils to be MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then he who does not know may still have true notions of that MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then virtue is profitable? MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: But when we said that a man cannot be a good guide unless he MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as we thought, it id: 1657 author: Plato title: Crito date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 1572 author: Plato title: Timaeus date: words: 73125.0 sentences: 2489.0 pages: flesch: 63.0 cache: ./cache/1572.txt txt: ./txt/1572.txt summary: fairest work in the order of nature, and the world became a living soul which is time, having an uniform motion according to number, parted into planets; and he ordered the younger gods to frame human bodies for them the world portions of earth, air, fire, water, hereafter to be returned, In the next place, the gods gave a forward motion to the human body, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids a briny nature then two half-solid bodies are formed by separating the particles of earth and air, two kinds of globules are formed--one of The gods also mingled natures akin to that of man with other forms and of men, whom God placed in the uttermost parts of the world in return elements which are in number four, the body of the world was created, say, was their nature at that time, and God fashioned them by form and id: 1580 author: Plato title: Charmides date: words: 21869.0 sentences: 1065.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/1580.txt txt: ./txt/1580.txt summary: Socrates of any definition of temperance in which an element of science I ought to know you, he replied, for there is a great deal said about Yes, I said, Charmides; and indeed I think that you ought to excel I said to him: That is a natural reply, Charmides, and I think that he said: My opinion is, Socrates, that temperance makes a man ashamed or Very good, I said; and did you not admit, just now, that temperance is Yes, I said, Critias; but you come to me as though I professed to know asking in what wisdom or temperance differs from the other sciences, and Yes, Socrates, he said; and that I think is certainly true: for he who has this science or knowledge which knows itself will become like the Say that he knows health;--not wisdom or temperance, but the art of id: 1579 author: Plato title: Lysis date: words: 12557.0 sentences: 745.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/1579.txt txt: ./txt/1579.txt summary: Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Socrates asks Lysis whether his father and mother do not love the indifferent, which is neither good nor evil, should be the friend indifferent becomes a friend of the good for the sake of getting rid of unsolved, and the three friends, Socrates, Lysis, and Menexenus, are Yes, he said, your old friend and admirer, Miccus. Yes, I said; but I should like to know first, what is expected of me, Do you mean, I said, that you disown the love of the person whom he says And if so, that which is neither good nor evil can have no friend which itself had become evil it would not still desire and love the good; for, as we were saying, the evil cannot be the friend of the good. now become evil only, and the good was supposed to have no friendship id: 1571 author: Plato title: Critias date: words: 9885.0 sentences: 310.0 pages: flesch: 63.0 cache: ./cache/1571.txt txt: ./txt/1571.txt summary: division of the earth Poseidon obtained as his portion the island of in size, two of land and three of sea, which his divine power readily and him he made king of the centre island, while to his twin brother, through the zones of land from the island to the sea. on a column of orichalcum in the temple of Poseidon, at which the kings inhabitants with the barbaric greatness of the island of Atlantis, Plato flows off the bare earth into the sea, but, having an abundant supply receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children by a mortal king, he named Atlas, and after him the whole island and the ocean many things were brought to them from foreign countries, and the island middle of the island, at the temple of Poseidon, whither the kings were Poseidon; and the ten kings, being left alone in the temple, after they id: 1676 author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title: Alcibiades I date: words: 18733.0 sentences: 2041.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/1676.txt txt: ./txt/1676.txt summary: ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: But suppose the Athenians to deliberate with whom they ought ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And suppose that we wanted to know not only what men are like, ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And is not the same person able to persuade one individual ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And are honourable things sometimes good and sometimes not ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: You mean in such a case as the following:--In time of war, men ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And they are honourable in so far as they are good, and ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And the good is expedient? ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: But when people think that they do not know, they entrust ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then upon this view of the matter the same man is good and ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then what is the meaning of being able to rule over men who SOCRATES: You mean, that if you did not know Alcibiades, there would id: 1681 author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title: Eryxias date: words: 7121.0 sentences: 507.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/1681.txt txt: ./txt/1681.txt summary: PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Eryxias, Erasistratus, Critias. ask, Well, Socrates and Eryxias and Erasistratus, can you tell me what Yes, said Eryxias, interposing, but what use would it be if a man had And do you think, said the youth, that doing good things is like SOCRATES: What is useful to us, then, is wealth, and what is useless to SOCRATES: My argument, Critias (I said), appears to have given you the SOCRATES: And would you say that those things are useful which are SOCRATES: Then you consider that a man never wants any of these things SOCRATES: But can a bad thing be used to carry out a good purpose? SOCRATES: And do we think it possible that a thing should be useful for CRITIAS: No. SOCRATES: Then if these things are useful for supplying the needs of the SOCRATES: And he to whom the greatest number of things are useful id: 1677 author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title: Alcibiades II date: words: 5977.0 sentences: 506.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/1677.txt txt: ./txt/1677.txt summary: PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Alcibiades. SOCRATES: Are you going, Alcibiades, to offer prayer to Zeus? ALCIBIADES: Yes, Socrates, but you are speaking of a madman: surely you ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And every disease ophthalmia? ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: The senseless are those who do not know this? ALCIBIADES: Good words, Socrates, prithee. ALCIBIADES: No. SOCRATES: That ignorance is bad then, it would appear, which is of the ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: The many are foolish, the few wise? SOCRATES: Nor again, I suppose, a person who knows the art of war, but ALCIBIADES: No. SOCRATES: Nor, once more, a person who knows how to kill another or to ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And if a person does that which he knows or supposes that he ALCIBIADES: But I do not think that it has, Socrates: at least, if the ALCIBIADES: I agree, Socrates, with you and with the God, whom, indeed, id: 1673 author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works) title: Lesser Hippias date: words: 9440.0 sentences: 684.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/1673.txt txt: ./txt/1673.txt summary: Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable Socratic literature genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias a true Socratic The Lesser Hippias may be compared with the earlier dialogues of Plato, PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Eudicus, Socrates, Hippias. SOCRATES: I should greatly like, Eudicus, to ask Hippias the meaning HIPPIAS: Exactly so, Socrates; it is the character of Odysseus, as he is HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: And are they wily, and do they deceive by reason of their HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: Then a man who has not the power of speaking falsely and is HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: He and no one else is good at it? HIPPIAS: There you are wrong, Socrates; for in so far as Achilles speaks HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: And will our minds be better if they do wrong and make HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: Then the good man will voluntarily do wrong, and the bad man ==== make-pages.sh questions ==== make-pages.sh search ==== make-pages.sh topic modeling corpus Zipping study carrel