Plato

Book V 452-454

Controversy:

'Plato with Socrates and Glaucon.'

-But is not a woman by nature very different from a man?.

Certainly.

We admit that different natures ought to different things, but now we

say that these different natures should do the same things.

A noble thing is the power of the art of controversy.

Many people seem to fall into it quite against their will, and to think that

discussion which is really contention, because they cannot examine the

subject of their argument by analysing its various forms, but will urge

their contradiction of what has been said in reliance on the mere sound

of the word, dealing with one another by contention, and not by

scientific argument.-

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