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the same principle to all things?”
“I think so.” “Then next consider this. The
soul, has it a work which you couldn't accomplish with anything else in the
world, as for example, management, rule, deliberation, and the like, is
there anything else than soul to which you could rightly assign these and
say that they were its peculiar work?” “Nothing
else.” “And again life? Shall we say that too is the
function of the soul?” “Most certainly,” he
said. “And do we not also say that there is an excellence virtue
of the soul?”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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