Dialogue

 1 Parme|        ANALYSIS~The awe with which Plato regarded the character of ‘
 2 Parme|            None of the writings of Plato have been more copiously
 3 Parme|           to the other writings of Plato is also uncertain; the connexion
 4 Parme|        left in doubt as to whether Plato is speaking his own sentiments
 5 Parme|          imagination which enabled Plato to go beyond himself. To
 6 Parme|      Antiphon, the half-brother of Plato, who had once been inclined
 7 Parme| bridle-maker; by this slight touch Plato verifies the previous description
 8 Parme|           occurred; secondly, that Plato is very likely to have invented
 9 Parme|       appears to be referred to by Plato in two other places (Theaet.,
10 Parme|      Eleatic philosophy. But would Plato have been likely to place
11 Parme|         word of explanation, could Plato assign to them the refutation
12 Parme|            quite inconsistent with Plato’s own relation to the Eleatics.
13 Parme|           latitude we may allow to Plato in bringing together by
14 Parme|      second parts. To suppose that Plato would first go out of his
15 Parme|     Perhaps there is no passage in Plato showing greater metaphysical
16 Parme|          will be surprised to find Plato criticizing the very conceptions
17 Parme|           of the Ideas was held by Plato throughout his life in the
18 Parme|       space in the entire works of Plato. Their transcendental existence
19 Parme|           from the mind, in any of Plato’s writings, with the exception
20 Parme|            to them is not found in Plato (compare Essay on the Platonic
21 Parme|        survey of the philosophy of Plato, which would be out of place
22 Parme|     Parmenides, we may remark that Plato is quite serious in his
23 Parme|          the real. To suppose that Plato, at a later period of his
24 Parme|   assumption. The real progress of Plato’s own mind has been partly
25 Parme|       logic (Theaet., Soph.). Like Plato, he is struggling after
26 Parme|     contemporary Pythagoreans. And Plato with a true instinct recognizes
27 Parme|            criticized the ideas of Plato without an anachronism,
28 Parme|     probably a time in the life of Plato when the ethical teaching
29 Parme|          transition in the mind of Plato, to which Aristotle alludes (
30 Parme|            on a previous occasion. Plato seems to imply that there
31 Parme|        most remarkable passages in Plato. Few writers have ever been
32 Parme|       their favourite notions. But Plato may here be said to anticipate
33 Parme|     another.~It is remarkable that Plato, speaking by the mouth of
34 Parme|            is the most singular in Plato. It appears to be an imitation,
35 Parme|        hint is the thread by which Plato connects the two parts of
36 Parme|           the treatment of them in Plato as a mere straw-splitting,
37 Parme|            is hard to suppose that Plato would have furnished so
38 Parme|  philosophy. We need not deny that Plato, trained in the school of
39 Parme|      element in them is the aim of Plato in the Sophist. But his
40 Parme|         The Being and Not-being of Plato never merge in each other,
41 Parme|      obscure Megarian influence on Plato which cannot wholly be cleared
42 Parme|           of Athens (Phaedr.), and Plato might have learned the Megarian
43 Parme|           is the track along which Plato is leading us. Zeno had
44 Parme|         the mind of Parmenides and Plato, ‘Gott-betrunkene Menschen,’
45 Parme|            kind of criticism which Plato has extended to his own
46 Parme|       first case, they assume that Plato means to show the impossibility
47 Parme|          this is not the spirit of Plato, and could not with propriety
48 Parme|        second of the two theories. Plato everywhere ridicules (perhaps
49 Parme|     compare the two in detail. But Plato also goes beyond his Megarian
50 Parme|  mathematics, may be doubted. That Plato and the most subtle philosopher
51 Parme|          commenced in the Sophist. Plato, in urging the difficulty
52 Parme|          stage of the dialogues of Plato in which he is partially
53 Parme|            trustworthy accounts of Plato’s oral teaching.~To sum
54 Parme|          sum up: the Parmenides of Plato is a critique, first, of
55 Parme|         worked out and improved by Plato. When primary abstractions
56 Parme|                  The Parmenides of Plato belongs to a stage of philosophy
57 Parme|      arrive at the conclusion that Plato has been using an imaginary
58 Parme|         introduce into philosophy. Plato is warning us against two
59 Parme|         are the deficiencies which Plato is seeking to supply in
60 Parme|          not the distinction which Plato by the mouth of Parmenides
61 Parme|         phraseology, the spirit of Plato had been truly understood
62 Parme|             the word substance, as Plato has the notions of Unity
63 Parme|       sense which we supposed. And Plato, while he criticizes the