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| タイトル | ： 第15回 |
| 投稿日 | ： 2003/12/27(Sat) 23:17 |
| 投稿者 | ： 惣田正明 <vem13077@nifty.ne.jp> |
第15回テキスト
---はじめ---
The character of Adeimantus is deeper and graver, and the
profounder objections are commonly put into his mouth.
Glaucon is more demonstrative, and generally opens the game.
Adeimantus pursues the argument further. Glaucon has more of
the liveliness and quick sympathy of youth; Adeimantus has
the maturer judgment of a grown-up man of the world. In the
second book, when Glaucon insists that justice and injustice
shall be considered without regard to their consequences,
Adeimantus remarks that they are regarded by mankind in
general only for the sake of their consequences; and in a
similar vein of reflection he urges at the beginning of the
fourth book that Socrates falls in making his citizens happy,
and is answered that happiness is not the first but the
second thing, not the direct aim but the indirect consequence
of the good government of a State. In the discussion about
religion and mythology, Adeimantus is the respondent, but
Glaucon breaks in with a slight jest, and carries on the
conversation in a lighter tone about music and gymnastic to
the end of the book. It is Adeimantus again who volunteers
the criticism of common sense on the Socratic method of
argument, and who refuses to let Socrates pass lightly over
the question of women and children. It is Adeimantus who is
the respondent in the more argumentative, as Glaucon in the
lighter and more imaginative portions of the Dialogue. For
example, throughout the greater part of the sixth book, the
causes of the corruption of philosophy and the conception of
the idea of good are discussed with Adeimantus. Then Glaucon
resumes his place of principal respondent; but he has a
difficulty in apprehending the higher education of Socrates,
and makes some false hits in the course of the discussion.
Once more Adeimantus returns with the allusion to his brother
Glaucon whom he compares to the contentious State; in the
next book he is again superseded, and Glaucon continues to
the end.
---終わり---