Sublime

Fidèle à l'intuition centrale de son maître Socrate, Platon ne séparait pas l'engagement théorique pour la vérité de l'engagement éthico-politique pour la justice. Ces deux engagements sont essentiellement corrélatifs. La vérité que le philosophe cherche est sens et source de justice.

I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that others less esteemed were really wiser and better.

Plato’s truth is identical not only with the beautiful, but with the good and the just.

the just man seeks to gain an advantage over the unjust only, but not over the just, while the unjust would gain an advantage over either.

‘Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person,

Percy Shelley in “A Defense of Poetry,”