Most
of the things which the multitude admire are referred to objects of
the most general kind, those which are held together by cohesion or
natural organization, such as stones, wood, fig-trees, vines, olives.
But those which are admired by men who are a little more reasonable
are referred to the things which are held together by a living
principle, as flocks, herds. Those which are admired by men who are
still more instructed are the things which are held together by a
rational soul, not however a universal soul, but rational so far as
it is a soul skilled in some art, or expert in some other way, or
simply rational so far as it possesses a number of slaves. But he who
values rational soul, a soul universal and fitted for political life,
regards nothing else except this; and above all things he keeps his
soul in a condition and in an activity conformable to reason and
social life, and he co-operates to this end with those who are of the
same kind as himself.
(podcast episode) (original Greek)
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