I remember coming across a statement by Plato, in which he says something along the lines of "the philosopher thinks/works even as he is sleeping and eating" but can't seem to locate the exact wording anywhere.
Is there any chance anyone can reel the quote off for me, and/or perhaps point me towards where I might have found such a statement?
Any help would be very much appreciated, as would any thoughts on the misquoted statement. Thanks!
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It would be subjective to regard this statement for his Ideas, but I think you are thinking of the Creto where he wants to show that against or for the Law of the land Socrates treats the philosopher's readiness to Die as if it were the objectivity for the values of the state He dies in. The state may be wrong, but by his own judgment as of being part OF, the philosopher has justice in that State.
He cannot accept for sleeping and eating His way through the actions of workers in the State that he himself knew that justice.
Admittedly death conflicts with sleeping. Check it yourself, and tell me your subjective opinion on the subject.
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