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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: chosen contrary to the nature of the truly eligible, and not of his own
free will, but either through ignorance or from some unhappy necessity.
PROTARCHUS: Certainly that seems to be true.
SOCRATES: And now have I not sufficiently shown that Philebus' goddess is
not to be regarded as identical with the good?
PHILEBUS: Neither is your 'mind' the good, Socrates, for that will be open
to the same objections.
SOCRATES: Perhaps, Philebus, you may be right in saying so of my 'mind';
but of the true, which is also the divine mind, far otherwise. However, I
will not at present claim the first place for mind as against the mixed
life; but we must come to some understanding about the second place. For
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