Note 450 — Chapter X · THE MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HELLAS: AN IDEAL OF SELF-REALIZATION
Reading edition
The reader of Plato will recall how Socrates uses this practice of the exposition of infants to illustrate his art of bringing to birth true and false ideas (“lies and shadows”) in the minds of his pupils, and exposing to die those that are vain shadows. See his Dialogues, tr. Jowett, vol. iii, pp. 350 f.