Praise and blame
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abuse · calumnies · denunciation · extolled · invocation and rebuke · praise · praise and blame · praiseworthy · الحمد والذم · الدعاء والزجر
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Panathenaicus
The passage's concern with how cities should be praised or blamed, and how readers should distinguish proof from calumny.
on the contrary, they will appreciate the praise given to their own city, which is based on proof, while they will dismiss with contempt the abuse, which is uttered at random with no regard to the facts, and is offensive only in the words employed;
for you have extolled both these cities well and fittingly—Athens, according to the acclaim of the majority, which no man of note has ever disdained, while all men in their craving to obtain it are ready to submit themselves to any hazard whatsoever;
But after they had divided the territory with the Argives and the Messenians and for themselves had settled in Sparta—at this juncture, as you say, they were so proud that although they then numbered no more than two thousand men they considered themselves unworthy to live unless they could make themselves masters of all the cities in the Peloponnesus.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Commendation and censure, used to calibrate degrees of humanity, to prove the plurality of happinesses by reductio, and to mark off what counts as happiness from what does not.
and then praise and blame would fall away, invocation and rebuke would be void, and discipline and governance would be a foul thing.
This sense is a happiness that exists for every man, and everyone can obtain some of it and enjoy it to the measure of his rank in humanity, and the measure of his awareness of the fine and the foul, and his acquisition of the stations of the virtues and the vices, and the ranks of praise and blame.
a sort whom no praise and no blame attaches to on this account, and a sort whom blame and praise do attach to.