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.
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
The dialogue partner who opens by asserting death is an evil and is gradually persuaded otherwise.
— That would be arrogant;
— It is wretched, then, since it is an evil.
Inquire whose tombs are pointed out in Greece;
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.