Meaning of a sentence
Meaning of a sentence
The passage below is from The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant.
Plato returned to Athens in 387 B.C., a man of forty now, ripened to maturity by the variety of many peoples and the wisdom of many lands. He had lost a little of the hot enthusiasms of youth, but he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth, and the many aspects of every problem blended into a distributive justice to every facet of the truth.
I cannot clearly understand the bold-faced passage.
Let me tell you what I understand from the part in question, though I think that leaves much to be desired.
Older Plato, though losing zeal of youth, had achieved the ability of much deeper thought that makes him not to accept every extreme arguments at the face value, and finds, in various sides of every problem, every facet of the truth and brings each facet to its own justice.
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Stenka25 Older Plato, though losing zeal of youth, had achieved the ability of much deeper thought that makes him not to accept every extreme arguments at the face value Older Plato, although having lost the zeal of youth, had achieved the ability of much deeper thought that makes him reject every extreme argument. The writer is saying that extreme arguments are by their very nature one-sided and incomplete. Stenka25 and finds, in various sides of every problem, every facet of the truth and brings each facet to its own justice.
- Stenka25 Older Plato, though losing zeal of youth, had achieved the ability of much deeper thought that makes him not to accept every extreme arguments at the face value Older Plato, although having lost the zeal of youth, had achieved the ability of much deeper thought that makes him reject every extreme argument.
- The writer is saying that extreme arguments are by their very nature one-sided and incomplete.
- Stenka25 and finds, in various sides of every problem, every facet of the truth and brings each facet to its own justice.
- and finds, in the various sides of every problem, every facet of the truth and brings each facet to its own justice.
- The writer has coined a term, distributive justice, that we are supposed to guess at the meaning of.
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Stenka25Older Plato, though losing zeal of youth, had achieved the ability of much deeper thought that makes him not to accept every extreme arguments at the face value
Older Plato, although having lost the zeal of youth, had achieved the ability of much deeper thought that makes him reject every extreme argument.
The writer is saying that extreme arg
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