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Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, | Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, | ||
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+ | Nausiphanes of Teos lived in the time of Alexander, and after. | ||
- | Anaxarchus of Abdêra was in his prime about 340 B.C., and was active throughout | + | He wrote a book called The Tripod, on epistemology |
- | He wrote a book On Monarchy. | + | 1. (The man of science has the capacity for rhetoric, even if he does not practise it). |
- | 1. Much learning can help much, but also can greatly harm him who has it. It helps the clever | + | 2. (The wise man will pursue rhetoric, because honour depends on winning a reputation for cleverness |
- | 2. (From the work 'On Monarchy'): It is hard to collect money, but harder still to keep it safely. | + | The wise man is he who can persuade his hearers; this power belongs to the man of science, its source being his knowledge of the facts, so that he could pass on his own convictions not only to his pupils but to any race of people. Having a knowledge of the facts, he is able to lead his audience where he wishes, because he can tell them what is to their advantage, which is what they wish to hear. The scientist has command of the best diction also: not that created by vain imagination and usage, but that based on the nature of things. He also has command of logic, without which knowledge is impossible, and is best qualified in that art indispensable to a statesman in a democracy or monarchy or any other constitution, |
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+ | The man who employs continuous discourse will be best able to employ the dialectic method and vice versa, because both depend on an accurate judgement of how to lead pupils from the known to the unknown; that is, they depend upon a knowledge of the 'right time' and 'right measure' | ||
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+ | 3. (Nausiphanes gave ' | ||
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+ | 4. (Of those things which appear |
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