True Philosophers’ Object of Desire Sample Clauses

True Philosophers’ Object of Desire. Let me now consider what Xxxxxxxx says about true philosophers in Hades and the conditions they live in there: [T19] Those people who established the rites for us are no ordinary people, but in reality have long been setting a xxxxxx when they say that whoever comes to Hades without initiation and the rites (ἀμύητος καὶ ἀτέλεστος) will lie in filth, whereas someone who arrives there purified and initiated (κεκαθαρμένος τε καὶ τετελεσμένος) will dwell with gods. For in fact, as those involved in the rites put it, “many carry the fennel-wand, but few are inspired”. The latter, in my opinion, are none other than those who have pursued philosophy correctly (οἱ πεφιλοσοφηκότες ὀρθῶς).252 In the quote above, Xxxxxxxx makes a two-stage distinction: firstly, he distinguishes the wicked (those who will lie in filth) from the good, and, secondly, the truly good (those who are purified and initiated) and those who appear to be good.253 In other words, Xxxxxxxx initially makes a distinction between the wicked and the virtuous, 249 Phd. 115c3-116a1 for Xxxxxxxx’s idea that after he drinks poison and dies, he will already be gone. At 115c6-8, Xxxxxxxx says, ‘I’m not convincing Crito that I am Xxxxxxxx here, the one who is now holding a conversation…Instead he supposes that I’m that corpse which he’ll shortly be seeing’. See also Long 2015, 54-55 250 I do not think that the body has the power to alter the soul’s nature or essence, although the body is a bad influence for the soul. See also fn. 237 above. 251 It is not possible to know exactly what Xxxxxxxx’ prison cell looked like and what his conditions were. We are told that Xxxxxxxx was chained (Phd. 59e6-60a1), there is a stool, a bed (89a8-b1) and a bathroom (116a2-3), and it is big enough for 10 or more people. No mention of a window is made, but we can conjecture that there was one since Phaedo could realize that ‘it was already nearly sunset (116b6)’. 252 Phd. 69c4-d2.