General Discussion
Link to Book: https://archive.org/details/oldersophists0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up
May you read and see echoes of reality and ask the question: "What does it mean to act according to the reality of my nature?"
"Names are conventional restrictions on nature, but the visible abstract categories of things are not conventional restrictions but the offspring of, nature"
pg: 212: "Time has no reality"
"There is no real distinction between Greek and barbarian"
pg 218:" Justice then consists in not transgressing the customs of the city in which one enjoys citizenship.
So a man would employ justice best for his own interests if he were to regards the laws as important when witnesses were present, but, when no witnesses are present, he were to regards the demands of nature as important.
For the demands of the laws are artificial, but the demands of nature are necessary.
Is this map apart of reality?
Are names part of reality?
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6YIB5UAE2s
And the demands of the laws are the result not of natural disposition but of agreement, but the demands of nature are exactly the opposite.
So if a man transgresses the demands of law and his transgression is unnoticed by the parties to the agreement, he escapes without either shame or penalty. But if the transgression is noticed he does not.
If, on the other hand, a man does what is really an impossibility and violates one of the inherent demands of nature, if all mankind fails to notice the harm is no less and if everyone is aware of it the harm is no greater.
For the injury he suffers in not in appearance, but in truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi9jpPx2Izc
This is exactly what the present line of argument is about, to demonstrate that many of the things which are just according to the law are at variance with nature.
Laws lay down what the eyes may see and not see, what the ears may hear and not hear. and wat the tongue may and not say, and what the hands may do and not do, and where the feet may go and where they may not go, and what the heart may desire and what it may not.
But as far as nature is concerned, none of these things is more in accord or conformity with nature than any other, either the things from which the laws turn men aside or the things to which they direct them.
Again, life is natural, and so is death and life is one."
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For the things which are truly advantageous ought not to bring harm but help.
So then the things which are advantageous in nature are.....than these."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNcfQVK-arY
Nature is what is outside of names, law and time. We come from this source.
What is the true nature of man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKGhjCsOM70