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| タイトル | ： 第12回 |
| 投稿日 | ： 2003/12/06(Sat) 17:19 |
| 投稿者 | ： 惣田正明 <vem13077@nifty.ne.jp> |
第12回テキスト
---はじめ---
His "son and heir" Polemarchus has the frankness and
impetuousness of youth; he is for detaining Socrates by force
in the opening scene, and will not "let him off" on the
subject of women and children. Like Cephalus, he is limited
in his point of view, and represents the proverbial stage of
morality which has rules of life rather than principles; and
he quotes Simonides as his father had quoted Pindar. But
after this he has no more to say; the answers which he makes
are only elicited from him by the dialectic of Socrates. He
has not yet experienced the influence of the Sophists like
Glaucon and Adeimantus, nor is he sensible of the necessity
of refuting them; he belongs to the pre-Socratic or pre-
dialectical age. He is incapable of arguing, and is
bewildered by Socrates to such a degree that he does not know
what he is saying. He is made to admit that justice is a
thief, and that the virtues follow the analogy of the arts.
From his brother Lysias we learn that he fell a victim to the
Thirty Tyrants, but no allusion is here made to his fate, nor
to the circumstance that Cephalus and his family were of
Syracusan origin, and had migrated from Thurii to Athens.
---終わり---