 For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their...  The Works of Plato - Page 338by Plato - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Plato, Harold North Fowler - 1913 - 648 pages
...been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external... | |
 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Buddha (The concept) - 1916 - 482 pages
...thinkers, both ancient and modern, have shared this view. Plato suggests that the invention of letters "will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, through neglect of memory, for that, through trusting to writing, they will remember outwardly by means of... | |
 | David Lowenthal - History - 1985 - 522 pages
...Revolution and the Historical Imagination, pp. 21, 163. 414 Writing was feared as a threat to memory. 'This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing . . . will discourage... | |
 | Daniel E. Anderson - Philosophy - 1993 - 246 pages
...been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external... | |
 | Jeffrey Thomas Nealon - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 220 pages
...have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it.... You have invented an elixir [pharmakon] not of memory but reminding" (275A). The undecidable... | |
 | Albert Borgmann - Computers - 1999 - 300 pages
...king and god Thamus, to whom Theuth had made his presentation, was doubtful, and he complained that "this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external... | |
 | Ole F. Kirkeby - Business & Economics - 2000 - 300 pages
...the negative consequences of the invention of the letters through the mouth of the Egyptian, Thamus: "For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external... | |
 | Architecture - 2002 - 135 pages
...been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external... | |
 | Michael Naas - Philosophy - 2003 - 252 pages
...been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external... | |
 | Hart De Fouw, Robert Svoboda - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 468 pages
...god-king of Egypt, to the god Thoth, who was congratulating himself on having invented the alphabet: this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external... | |
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