“Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.” FirstsMayBookSelfReasonBodyDesireConflictAngryAttractionDescriptionRepublicPassagesPlatoFoundingOverwhelmedUnworthyAcknowledgmentPlato S Book:Regarding the Pain of Others Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.” ProblemBodyScienceMovementPlanetsConcernedAppearanceWanderHeavenlyUniformsPlatoSuppositionHeavenly Bodies Author:Plato
“There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.” BodyLightTruthTruth IsShadowErrorsDefinitionsSupremeDescriptionFalsehoodSublimePlatoContradictorySupreme BeingPlato S Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste