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*(aplo/ths
Adler number: alpha,3235
Translated headword: simplicity
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Simplicity is] of two kinds. The one [is] intelligent and just, the other foolish and unjust. After all, the contemporary multiplicity also develops in some with justice and good sense, but in others with injustice and ignorance. For, as
Plato says, of old evils revolved around this mortal world from necessity,[1] but less malicious than they are now, and simpler and not incurably burned into the souls in some depth. For great is the difference between the ancient evils and the new, and not in magnitude only of greater and lesser, but also in quality of kinds.
*(aplo/ths ditth/. h( me\n e)/mfrwn kai\ dikai/a, h( de\ a)no/htos kai\ a)/dikos. e)/peita kai\ th\n nu=n poikili/an e)mfu/esqai toi=s me\n meta\ dikaiosu/nhs kai\ fronh/sews, toi=s de\ meta\ a)diki/as kai\ a)maqi/as. ei)=nai ga\r dh\ pa/lai kai\ ta\ kaka\ to\n qnhto\n tou=ton peripolou=nta e)c a)na/gkhs, w(/s fhsi *pla/twn, a)ll' h(=tton kakoh/qh, w(s nu=n e)sti, kai\ a(plou/stera kai\ ou)k e)n ba/qei tini\ tai=s yuxai=s e)gkekaume/na a)ni/ata. pollh\ ga/r e)stin h( metafora\ tw=n pa/lai kakw=n pro\s ta\ ne/a, kai\ ou) poso/thti mo/non kreitto/nwn te kai\ xeiro/nwn, a)lla\ kai\ poio/thti tro/pwn.
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[1]
Plato,
Theaetetus 176A (web address 1).
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Keywords: chronology; definition; ethics; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 July 2000@23:24:38.
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