The Art of Weaving
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
weaving · kingly weaving · the kingly process of weaving · the model supplied by weaving · the web
in the texts
Charmides
The craft of weaving cloth, cited as an ordinary craft whose products do not depend on the science of good and evil.
For, Critias, if you choose to take away this science from the whole number of them, will medicine any the less give us health, or shoemaking give us shoes, or weaving provide clothes, or will the pilot’s art any the less prevent the loss of life at sea, or the general’s in war?
Statesman
The extended technical analogy, drawn from the craft of weaving cloth, used to describe how the true statesman combines citizens of courageous and self-restrained character into a single durable civic fabric.
How is that to be done?
That also seems, at least, to be true.
Shall we then proceed to discuss it after the model supplied by weaving, now that all the classes in the state have been made plain to us?