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Quotation from Sophist by Plato

“There appears to be a sort of war of Giants and Gods going on amongst them; they are fighting with one another about the nature of essence”

Plato (spoken by The Eleatic Stranger)

Sophist, Review of theories of being, c. 246a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

The Stranger introduces the quarrel between those who say only bodies exist and the friends of the Forms.

Citation: "There appears to be a sort of war of Giants and Gods going on amongst them; they are fighting with one another about the nature of essence" — Plato, Sophist, Review of theories of being, c. 246a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-sophist-q5)

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