Author: Immortalist
Date: Sep 7, 2008 23:51
... every system of Greek philosophy. Plato had had it in mind when he called virtue harmonious action; Socrates when he identified virtue with knowledge. The Seven Wise Men had established the tradition by engraving, on the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the motto meden agan,-nothing in excess. Perhaps, as Nietzsche claims, all these were attempts of the Greeks to check their own violence and ...
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