Tuesday, September 21, 2010

PLATO: AN INTERPRETATION - errata

PLATO: AN INTERPRETATION - errata

While translating my Plato: An Interpretation into Arabic, I made a number of corrections in the original, these were mostly minor typos, but there were also a couple of words that I had to alter and a couple of phrases that had to be reconstructed. I arranged with Virtualbookworm to incorporate the corrections in copies to be printed in future. I am giving below the list of corrections as submitted to Virtualbookworm, in case any reader who already has a copy may care to print out these corrections and pin them to the book. Subsequently I found that I had missed one typo: on page 196, para. 1, l. 7, the word eporexesthai appears with an extra h in the final syllable.

Page Para Line Present text Replace with
2 2 5 own garden. and offer own garden, and offer
2 4 last line consequence consequences.
2 5 7 intesity intensity
8 3 10 of Plato’a theory of Plato’s theory
11 2 4 in the Republic says in the Republic says
26 1 3 Ethics with his eight Ethics with his eight
27 3 11 phronêis phronêsis
27 4 4 phronêis phronêsis
29 3 17 (245e). (246a).
36 3 2 (choris men) (chôris men)
36 3 3 (choris de) (chôris de)
47 last line on page are not agred upon are not agreed upon
59 1 8 (29c-30a.) (29d-30a.)
66 2 2 but it does not give us but this does not give us
68 3 8 and readily agrees and he readily agrees
90 last 6 To lead people to care For people to care
119 1 2 neither adds nor neither adds to nor
135 2 8 comes Socrates warning comes Socrates’ warning
139 5 4 sense of proof. sense of proof
140 2 16 poteron on ê ouk on? poteron on ê ouk on;
141 1 5 poteron on ê ouk on? poteron on ê ouk on;
145 2 3 the greatest of studies the greatest of studies?
147 4 1 What gives truth to What gives reality to
164 2 18 anagkê toutous allelôn anagkê toutous allêlôn
191 2 7 (47a-e). (472a-e).
210 2 8-11 Present text: but since we say that reality and knowledge are a unity, we find one section also representing the lowest degree of knowing which we may call belief or opinion, and the other section the relatively higher degree of knowledge of things perceptible.
Replace with: but since we say that reality and knowledge are a unity, we find one section also representing the lowest degree of knowing, and the other section the relatively higher degree of knowledge of things perceptible which we may call belief or opinion.
228 last 1 imitator of imitators imitator of imitations
241 2 1 kai apodexesthai logon kai apodexasthai logon
251 1 3 Thales to Plato, 1914 Thales to Plato, 1914
308 1 7 Present text: dimension of reality, of the ultimate creative intelligence
Replace with: dimension of reality, these being two dimensions of the ultimate creative intelligence
312 6 9 and ship-buiding and ship-building

I am afraid the above may not be very helpful. If you would care to have it in a better form, email me at dkhashaba@yahoo.com and I will gladly send you a properly set version.
I have now edited the post to make it somewhat better. I hope now it is of some use.

D. R. Khashaba
September 21, 2010

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