Dialogue

 1  Gorg|         several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among
 2  Gorg|           beset the interpreters of Plato in this matter. First, they
 3  Gorg|          measuring) in the study of Plato, as well as of other great
 4  Gorg|            exaggerated. We may give Plato too much system, and alter
 5  Gorg|        agreement with the spirit of Plato, and the amount of direct
 6  Gorg|             has puzzled students of Plato by the appearance of two
 7  Gorg|        Sophists in the dialogues of Plato, he is vain and boastful,
 8  Gorg|     insensible to higher arguments. Plato may have felt that there
 9  Gorg|      provoking than in any other of Plato’s writings: for he is ‘fooled
10  Gorg|         persons in the Dialogues of Plato, a precise dramatic date
11  Gorg|            regard (1) to the age of Plato and the ironical character
12  Gorg|          all the other dialogues of Plato, we are made aware that
13  Gorg|           may be happy on the rack, Plato has already admitted that
14  Gorg|             nature.~The idealism of Plato is founded upon this sentiment.
15  Gorg|             common understanding as Plato’s conception of happiness.
16  Gorg|    unpleasant consequences. Nor can Plato in the Gorgias be deemed
17  Gorg|         merged in politics. Both in Plato and Aristotle, as well as
18  Gorg|            suffering goodness which Plato desires to pourtray, not
19  Gorg|          sort of wrong and obloquy.~Plato, like other philosophers,
20  Gorg|       accordance with the spirit of Plato. He supposes a day of retribution,
21  Gorg|           remoter consequences.~(3) Plato’s theory of punishment is
22  Gorg|           On this representation of Plato’s the criticism has been
23  Gorg|           too strict a manner. That Plato sometimes reasons from them
24  Gorg|            eternal damnation.~We do Plato violence in pressing his
25  Gorg|             according to the truth. Plato may be accused of representing
26  Gorg|        pairs of opposites, which in Plato easily pass into one another,
27  Gorg|             we must not forget that Plato’s conception of pleasure
28  Gorg|            objective character. Had Plato fixed his mind, not on the
29  Gorg|          which they are derived. To Plato the whole world appears
30  Gorg|       written at the same period of Plato’s life. For the Republic
31  Gorg|             in the same relation to Plato’s theory of morals which
32  Gorg|      fiction seems to have involved Plato in the necessity of supposing
33  Gorg|            necessary to repeat that Plato is playing ‘both sides of
34  Gorg|          upon the obvious fact that Plato is a dramatic writer, whose
35  Gorg|       opposed both to the spirit of Plato and of ancient philosophy
36  Gorg|           philosophy generally. For Plato is not asserting any abstract
37  Gorg|        liberty of prophesying;’ and Plato is not affirming any abstract
38  Gorg|          Socrates.~...~The irony of Plato sometimes veils from us
39  Gorg|      consequences. But Socrates, or Plato for him, neither divides
40  Gorg|             The Greek in the age of Plato admitted praise to be one
41  Gorg|         danger, the pilot, not like Plato’s captain in the Republic,
42  Gorg|         terrible consequences which Plato foretells no longer await
43  Gorg|       reapeth.’ We may imagine with Plato an ideal statesman in whom
44  Gorg|               Who is the true poet?~Plato expels the poets from his
45  Gorg|            than a thousand sermons? Plato, like the Puritans, is too
46  Gorg|           sort of plaything, or, in Plato’s language, a flattery,
47  Gorg|         leave the result with God.’ Plato does not say that God will
48  Gorg|        imaginable world at present, Plato here, as in the Phaedo and
49  Gorg|             whether in the Bible or Plato, the veil of another life.
50  Gorg|       reveal the invisible. Of this Plato, unlike some commentators
51  Gorg|             exaggeration of feeling Plato seems to shrink: he leaves
52  Gorg|          and theology.~THE MYTHS OF PLATO.~The myths of Plato are
53  Gorg|        MYTHS OF PLATO.~The myths of Plato are a phenomenon unique
54  Gorg|      adaptation of an old tradition Plato makes a new beginning for
55  Gorg|          Laws). There also occur in Plato continuous images; some
56  Gorg|           ingenious fancy occurs to Plato that the upper atmosphere
57  Gorg|              All the three myths in Plato which relate to the world
58  Gorg|         reflection which is made by Plato elsewhere, that the two
59  Gorg|          the three greater myths of Plato, nor perhaps any allegory
60  Gorg|             as they were born,’ but Plato only raises, without satisfying,
61  Gorg|             unlike anything else in Plato. There is an Oriental, or
62  Gorg|           said about a future life. Plato seems to make use of them
63  Gorg|            This art is possessed by Plato in a degree which has never
64  Gorg|             course verbal only, yet Plato, like theologians in other
65  Gorg|             the earth. This is what Plato calls the ‘reign of Cronos;’
66  Gorg|          ordinary life? For a while Plato balances the two sides of
67  Gorg|             answering. But then, as Plato rather mischievously adds, ‘
68  Gorg| theocratical. In this fanciful tale Plato has dropped, or almost dropped,
69  Gorg|             It is characteristic of Plato and of his age to pass from
70  Gorg|             the broken metaphors of Plato, if the effect of the whole
71  Gorg|           the myths and parables of Plato the ease and grace of conversation
72  Gorg|        society. The descriptions of Plato have a greater life and
73  Gorg|          homeliness and simplicity. Plato can do with words just as