Sophist – Plato
STRANGER: Let them say whether they would ad-STRANGER: And that the just and wise soul be-mit that there is such a thing as a mortal animal.
comes just and wise by the possession of justice and wisdom, and the opposite under opposite THEAETETUS: Of course they would.
circumstances?
STRANGER: And do they not acknowledge this THEAETETUS: Yes, they do.
to be a body having a soul?
STRANGER: But surely that which may be THEAETETUS: Certainly they do.
present or may be absent will be admitted by them to exist?
STRANGER: Meaning to say that the soul is something which exists?
THEAETETUS: Certainly.
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: And, allowing that justice, wisdom, the other virtues, and their opposites exist, as STRANGER: And do they not say that one soul is well as a soul in which they inhere, do they af-just, and another unjust, and that one soul is firm any of them to be visible and tangible, or wise, and another foolish?
are they all invisible?
THEAETETUS: Certainly.
THEAETETUS: They would say that hardly any of them are visible.