Unnamed interlocutor
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
A · an Indian Brahmin · one of those present · the interlocutor · the one who wished to hear · the other · the questioner · you
spoken of as
1 expressionIndian Brahmin“unnamed interlocutor”1 mention
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions (English)
and I have myself heard an Indian Brahmin dispute it on the ground that, according to the clear teaching of his religion, a Brahmin was entitled to twenty times as much happiness as anybody else.
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Tusculan Disputations
The dialogue partner who opens by asserting death is an evil and is gradually persuaded otherwise.
for reasoning will bring it about that, whichever of the opinions I have set forth be true, death is either no evil or rather a good.
— How, then, or why do you say that death seems an evil to you, when it will either make us happy if our souls remain, or, if we lack sensation, at least not wretched?
and if we shall hold that those whose souls excel either in genius or in virtue, because they are of the best nature, most discern the power of nature, it is likely — since each best man most serves posterity — that there is something of which he is to have awareness after death.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
An unnamed Brahmin individual recalled by the author as having disputed the equality postulate underlying utilitarian theory.
and I have myself heard an Indian Brahmin dispute it on the ground that, according to the clear teaching of his religion, a Brahmin was entitled to twenty times as much happiness as anybody else.
On Leisure
An imagined objector in dialogue with Seneca, voicing Stoic orthodoxy and challenging Seneca's turn to leisure.
' Why do you preach to us the precepts of Epicurus in the very headquarters of Zeno?
"There is the greatest difference," you say, "whether a thing is the chief aim or the accessory of another aim.
"They had not," you say, "the fortune or the rank that is usually required for admission to the conduct of public affairs.