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Genetic Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives - Page 28
edited by - 2007 - 148 pages
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The Ethics of the Greek Philosophers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: A ...

James Hervey Hyslop - 1903 - 502 pages
...ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...For each individual .among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together they become in a manner one man, who has many feet,...
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Readings in Political Philosophy

Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 pages
...ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together they become in a manner one man, who has many feet,...
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Readings in Political Philosophy

Francis William Coker - 1914 - 604 pages
...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together they become in a manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses; that is a figure of their mind and disposition. Hence the many are better judges than a single...
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The Works of Aristotle, Volume 10

Aristotle - 1921 - 472 pages
...ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue 1 Cp. I28zb6. s Cp. 11. 11-34. i cc. 12-17, iv., vi. 4 Reading in 1. 41 \cyta6ai, us suggested...
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The Works of Aristotle: Politica, by B. Jowett. Oeconomica, by E. S. Forster ...

Aristotle - 1921 - 460 pages
...ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to which many contribute is better than a dinner prov1ded out of a single purse. For each individual among the many has a share of virtue 1 Cp. 1282b...
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THE PAGEANT OF GREECE

R. W. LIVINGSTONE - 1924 - 476 pages
...ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together they become in a manner one man, who has many feet,...
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The Pageant of Greece

Richard Winn Livingstone - 1924 - 474 pages
...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together they become in a manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses.1 There is a danger in allowing them to share the great offices of state, for their folly will...
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Hellas, the Forerunner: The glory fades

Horace West Household - 1928 - 200 pages
...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together they become in a manner one man, who has many feet and hands and senses. There is a danger in allowing them to share the great offices of state, for their folly will...
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Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle

A. W. Price - 1989 - 306 pages
...individual is not a good man, when they meet together may be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and practical wisdom, and when they meet together, just as they become in a manner one man,...
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The Dignity of Legislation

Jeremy Waldron - 1999 - 224 pages
...individual is not a good man, when they meet together may be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses, so too with regard to their character and thought. Hence the many are better judges than a...
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