Dialogue

 1 Charm   |  followed in this Translation of Plato is the latest 8vo. edition
 2 Charm   |          s German Translation of Plato with Introductions; Zeller’
 3 Charm   |         arrange the Dialogues of Plato into a harmonious whole.
 4 Charm   |        spirit in the writings of Plato, but not a unity of design
 5 Charm   |          endeavoured to approach Plato from a point of view which
 6 Charm   |    volumes has been to represent Plato as the father of Idealism,
 7 Charm   |  writings commonly attributed to Plato in antiquity, any more than
 8 Charm   |      quoted several Dialogues of Plato, have quoted them all? Something
 9 Charm   |         are not only unworthy of Plato, and in several passages
10 Charm   |  estimate which he has formed of Plato’s Laws; nor with his opinion
11 Charm   |      with his opinion respecting Plato’s doctrine of the rotation
12 Charm   |        1875) of the Dialogues of Plato in English, I had to acknowledge
13 Charm   |          article, is superior to Plato: at any rate it is couched
14 Charm   |   writers of Greece, Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Pindar,
15 Charm   |    elements. In a translation of Plato what may be termed the interests
16 Charm   |          the subject. Whereas in Plato we are not always certain
17 Charm(3)|                   The ‘Ideas’ of Plato and Modern Philosophy.~
18 Charm   |   contemporary of Thucydides and Plato in anacolutha and repetitions.
19 Charm(4)|                     The myths of Plato.~
20 Charm   |       the original. The Greek of Plato often goes beyond the English
21 Charm   |          example, in translating Plato, it would equally be an
22 Charm   |       are but poor imitations of Plato, which fall very far short
23 Charm   |        the so-called Epistles of Plato were spurious. His friend
24 Charm   |         that all the Epistles of Plato are genuine, and very few
25 Charm   |         of forgery. They imitate Plato, who never imitates either
26 Charm   |      faults which of all writers Plato was most careful to avoid,
27 Charm   |      very different from that of Plato; and mistakes of fact, as
28 Charm   |         from the hand or mind of Plato. The other testimonies to
29 Charm   |    testimonies to the voyages of Plato to Sicily and the court
30 Charm   |        around the personality of Plato,—more voyages, more journeys
31 Charm   |     supposes that in the mind of Plato they took, at different
32 Charm   |          stage of his philosophy Plato attributed Ideas to all
33 Charm   | reconcile with the statements of Plato himself. The preparations
34 Charm   |      Ideas, which he ascribes to Plato. I have not the space to
35 Charm   |   Aristotle, to the dialogues of Plato until we have ascertained
36 Charm   |         most of the dialogues of Plato. How much of them is to
37 Charm   |        is the attempt to explain Plato out of the writings of Aristotle.
38 Charm   |     seven or eight references to Plato, although nothing really
39 Charm   |          of Aristotle respecting Plato, but of a later generation
40 Charm   |           2) There is no hint in Plato’s own writings that he was
41 Charm   |         No hint is given of what Plato meant by the ‘longer way’ (
42 Charm   |        no reason to suppose that Plato’s theory, or, rather, his
43 Charm   |         are always maintained in Plato. But the lesser logical
44 Charm   |        we admit inconsistency in Plato, but no further. He lived
45 Charm   |         one of those who believe Plato to have been a mystic or
46 Charm   |   meaning. I have just said that Plato is to be interpreted by
47 Charm   |          says Dr. Jackson, ‘that Plato would have changed his opinions,
48 Charm   |        not therefore follow that Plato intended one dialogue to
49 Charm   |       follows’. The dialogues of Plato are like poems, isolated
50 Charm   |       arranging the dialogues of Plato in chronological order according
51 Charm   |        to make the chronology of Plato’s writings dependent upon
52 Charm   |        Jackson’s ‘Later Theory,’ Plato’s Ideas, which were once
53 Charm   |       says (J. of Philol.) that ‘Plato hoped by the study of a
54 Charm   |       any such notion as this in Plato or anywhere in ancient philosophy?
55 Charm   |        To this ‘Later Theory’ of Plato’s Ideas I oppose the authority
56 Charm   |  conclusion I may remark that in Plato’s writings there is both
57 Charm(8)|        Comparison of the Laws of Plato with Spartan and Athenian
58 Charm   |         for in the philosophy of Plato (Greek) still retains an
59 Charm   |      eminently characteristic of Plato and his contemporaries; (
60 Charm   |         7) And still the mind of Plato, having snatched for a moment
61 Charm   |     person who, like his kinsman Plato, is ennobled by the connection
62 Charm   |        we see with surprise that Plato, who in his other writings
63 Charm   |     certain favourite notions of Plato, such as the doctrine of
64 Charm   |          date supplied either by Plato himself or allusions found
65 Charm   |       stage of the philosophy of Plato.~