Dialogue

 1 Craty|        perplexity to the student of Plato. While in fancy and humour,
 2 Craty|            We need not suppose that Plato used words in order to conceal
 3 Craty|          precise aim of the author. Plato wrote satires in the form
 4 Craty|           we should have understood Plato better, and many points
 5 Craty|            most of the dialogues of Plato, allowance has to be made
 6 Craty|        guessing, but the guesses of Plato are better than all the
 7 Craty|       hardly derives any light from Plato’s other writings, and still
 8 Craty|        century. May we suppose that Plato, like Lucian, has been amusing
 9 Craty|           result of the enquiry? Is Plato an upholder of the conventional
10 Craty|             strongly insisted on by Plato in many other passages)...
11 Craty|          the parts of a dialogue of Plato to tend equally to some
12 Craty|             nearly all the works of Plato, but to the Cratylus and
13 Craty|            some of the dialogues of Plato may be more truly viewed:—
14 Craty|            or wholly wrong, or that Plato, though he evidently inclines
15 Craty|            the friend or teacher of Plato; nor have we any proof that
16 Craty|    resembled the likeness of him in Plato any more than the Critias
17 Craty|            more than the Critias of Plato is like the real Critias,
18 Craty|              We can hardly say that Plato was aware of the truth,
19 Craty|            which he thus describes, Plato had probably no very definite
20 Craty|             not have been formed in Plato’s age, than that which he
21 Craty|            thought that the mind of Plato is more truly seen in the
22 Craty|          first, the desire to bring Plato’s theory of language into
23 Craty|             based upon the ideas of Plato, but upon the flux of Heracleitus.
24 Craty|          the Sophist and Politicus, Plato expressly draws attention
25 Craty|            Socrates is not the less Plato’s own, because not based
26 Craty|           upon the ideas; 2nd, that Plato’s theory of language is
27 Craty|          that they are serious. For Plato is in advance of his age
28 Craty|         either weak or extravagant. Plato is a supporter of the Onomatopoetic
29 Craty|          phase of the philosophy of Plato, and would have been regarded
30 Craty|         Such is the character which Plato intends to depict in some
31 Craty|             as would have justified Plato in propounding real derivations.
32 Craty|            to the indignation which Plato felt at having wasted his
33 Craty|            now consider (I) how far Plato in the Cratylus has discovered
34 Craty| anticipations of his genius.~I. (1) Plato is aware that language is
35 Craty|        Compare Timaeus.)~Neither is Plato wrong in supposing that
36 Craty|         There is no trace in any of Plato’s writings that he was acquainted
37 Craty|           wind and cold, and so on. Plato’s analysis of the letters
38 Craty|             movement of the tongue, Plato makes a great step in the
39 Craty|            him the distinction.~(4) Plato distinctly affirms that
40 Craty|             this and other passages Plato shows that he is as completely
41 Craty|             them to be our masters.~Plato does not add the further
42 Craty|          escaped the observation of Plato. He is not aware that the
43 Craty|            no more trace of this in Plato than there is of a language
44 Craty|             grandeur of the sound.’ Plato was very willing to use
45 Craty|          the character of Socrates, Plato envelopes the whole subject
46 Craty|             perfection of Homer and Plato. Yet we are far from saying
47 Craty|            familiar to Socrates and Plato. (5) There is the fallacy
48 Craty|           many times over.~(Compare Plato, Laws):—~‘ATHENIAN STRANGER:
49 Craty|     standing on his right hand,’ in Plato’s striking image, who formed
50 Craty|            respect falling short of Plato. Westphal holds that there
51 Craty|             have a significance; as Plato observes that the letter
52 Craty|          their English equivalents. Plato also remarks, as we remark,
53 Craty|             to us. Hence we see why Plato, like ourselves unable to
54 Craty|            admit with Hermogenes in Plato and with Horace that usage
55 Craty|        writer with the exception of Plato, who is himself not free