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| タイトル | ： 第五回 |
| 投稿日 | ： 2003/10/18(Sat) 08:22 |
| 投稿者 | ： 惣田正明 <vem13077@> |
第五回テキスト
---はじめ---
The division into books, like all similar divisions, is
probably later than the age of Plato. The natural divisions
are five in number; --(1) Book I and the first half of Book
II down to the paragraph beginning, "I had always admired the
genius of Glaucon and Adeimantus," which is introductory; the
first book containing a refutation of the popular and
sophistical notions of justice, and concluding, like some of
the earlier Dialogues, without arriving at any definite
result. To this is appended a restatement of the nature of
justice according to common opinion, and an answer is
demanded to the question --What is justice, stripped of
appearances? The second division (2) includes the remainder
of the second and the whole of the third and fourth books,
which are mainly occupied with the construction of the first
State and the first education. The third division (3)
consists of the fifth, sixth, and seventh books, in which
philosophy rather than justice is the subject of inquiry, and
the second State is constructed on principles of communism
and ruled by philosophers, and the contemplation of the idea
of good takes the place of the social and political virtues.
In the eighth and ninth books (4) the perversions of States
and of the individuals who correspond to them are reviewed in
succession; and the nature of pleasure and the principle of
tyranny are further analyzed in the individual man. The tenth
book (5) is the conclusion of the whole, in which the
relations of philosophy to poetry are finally determined, and
the happiness of the citizens in this life, which has now
been assured, is crowned by the vision of another.
---終わり---