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Sophist – Plato

STRANGER: Let them say whether they would ad-STRANGER: And that the just and wise soul be-mit that there is such a thing as a mortal animal.

comes just and wise by the possession of justice and wisdom, and the opposite under opposite THEAETETUS: Of course they would.

circumstances?

STRANGER: And do they not acknowledge this THEAETETUS: Yes, they do.

to be a body having a soul?

STRANGER: But surely that which may be THEAETETUS: Certainly they do.

present or may be absent will be admitted by them to exist?

STRANGER: Meaning to say that the soul is something which exists?

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: And, allowing that justice, wisdom, the other virtues, and their opposites exist, as STRANGER: And do they not say that one soul is well as a soul in which they inhere, do they af-just, and another unjust, and that one soul is firm any of them to be visible and tangible, or wise, and another foolish?

are they all invisible?

THEAETETUS: Certainly.

THEAETETUS: They would say that hardly any of them are visible.