Capitolo 34
use him.
PHAEDO - Certainly not.
Socrates - And theirs who possesses can prevent others to digitize him/it.
PHAEDO - for hath the poet didn't Certainly say,:
"What theirs will take that has the power,
And they can hold who is able."
Socrates - Therefore it is simple that the United States can hold
Chinese out in America.
PHAEDO - there can be without doubt of him anything.
Socrates - it is Chinese you/he/she can hold American out of China.
PHAEDO - That is another history. One don't have to let never his/her logic get the
better of him.
And so it is probable that we play forever with these great subjects with reasoning,
what it loses as a sieve, but good enough to take the happy-go-lucky ones or the
not trained.
One of the most interesting lectures that I ever listened were one
in front of the Economic League in San Francisco on the "Dialectics of
Socialism." The lecturer was a very acute man that is not able for one
moment is deceived by the sophistry of my Socrates and my Phaedo, but that,
him, prepared captives and fact of his/her hearers from similar methods. I was
incapable to feel everything of his/her address, but when I went reluctantly away, it appeared
to me that he was waiting himself/herself/itself to feel that Socialism it has to be sound
philosophy because it was contradictory to every human observation,
experiments, judgment and the laws of sound common sense - and his
the great public was clearly enough with him.
The dialectics of the schoolmen or them equivalent is useless in
Social discussion. Social phenomenons are not lent to the
rigid formulas of the mathematics and the logic, for the human intellect it is
incapable to discern and to understand all the factors of these problems. My
burlesque disguise of Plato was understood to illustrate near the difficulty of
reasoning on such themes.
Neither, on the other hand it is us to blindly follow the impulses of
emotion that conducts us to jump to a conclusion, sustains him/it with that that
reasons we am able, but it arrive him in some event. The emotion is the source of
Social power, but the non repressed power and undirected it is dangerous. Energy