Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|                the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which
 2 Phaedr|               in the later writings of Plato is only introduced playfully
 3 Phaedr|            work of a great artist like Plato cannot fail in unity, and
 4 Phaedr|               rule was not observed by Plato. The Republic is divided
 5 Phaedr|                 Thus the comparison of Plato’s other writings, as well
 6 Phaedr|        rhetoric. But the truth is that Plato subjects himself to no rule
 7 Phaedr|              tended to obscure some of Plato’s higher aims.~The first
 8 Phaedr|                living Greece no more.’~Plato has seized by anticipation
 9 Phaedr|              due to the imagination of Plato, and may be compared to
10 Phaedr|          Dialogues, and the gravity of Plato has sometimes imposed upon
11 Phaedr|             monotony of the style.~But Plato had doubtless a higher purpose
12 Phaedr|           discussions about love, what Plato says of the loves of men
13 Phaedr|              to ourselves the words of Plato. The use of such a parody,
14 Phaedr|              him. Like the Scriptures, Plato admits of endless applications,
15 Phaedr|              literary interest. And in Plato, more than in any other
16 Phaedr|                at one time of his life Plato was quite serious in maintaining
17 Phaedr|             exercised over the mind of Plato, we see that there was no
18 Phaedr|               in the representation of Plato.~Thus far we may believe
19 Phaedr|                far we may believe that Plato was serious in his conception
20 Phaedr|              would be at variance with Plato himself and with Greek notions
21 Phaedr|                like the other myths of Plato, describes in a figure things
22 Phaedr|               the expression partly of Plato’s enthusiasm for the idea,
23 Phaedr|            which were not perceived by Plato himself. For example, when
24 Phaedr|              there is no indication in Plato’s own writings that this
25 Phaedr|              whether the love of which Plato speaks is the love of men
26 Phaedr|           enough away from the mind of Plato. These and similar passages
27 Phaedr|            with the sterner rule which Plato lays down in the Laws. At
28 Phaedr|              unmeaning to suppose that Plato, in describing the spiritual
29 Phaedr|                the one from the other. Plato, with his great knowledge
30 Phaedr|              the higher love, of which Plato speaks, is the subject,
31 Phaedr|            fairest works of Greek art, Plato ever conceived himself to
32 Phaedr|           prolific in hard names. When Plato has sufficiently put them
33 Phaedr|               literature in the age of Plato was degenerating into sophistry
34 Phaedr|           latter view has probably led Plato to the paradox that speech
35 Phaedr|           compared in the manner which Plato suggests. The contrast of
36 Phaedr|          believe to have passed before Plato’s mind when he affirmed
37 Phaedr|              years before the birth of Plato. The first of the two great
38 Phaedr|               Isocrates was thirty and Plato twenty-three years of age,
39 Phaedr|              not to reflect how easily Plato can ‘invent Egyptians or
40 Phaedr|                himself is the enemy of Plato and his school? No arguments
41 Phaedr| inappropriateness of the characters of Plato. (Else, perhaps, it might
42 Phaedr|         Isocrates than of Lysias.) But Plato makes use of names which
43 Phaedr|          attached to the argument that Plato must have visited Egypt
44 Phaedr|             late but unknown period of Plato’s life, after he had deserted
45 Phaedr|             remarkable as showing that Plato was entirely free from what
46 Phaedr|             mythology hidden meanings. Plato, with a truer instinct,
47 Phaedr|               also a poetical sense in Plato, which enable him to discard
48 Phaedr|              who honour them on earth, Plato intends to represent an
49 Phaedr|            appreciate the dialogues of Plato, especially the Phaedrus,
50 Phaedr|                of the main purposes of Plato in the Phaedrus is to satirize
51 Phaedr|                of wealth or power; but Plato finds nothing wholesome
52 Phaedr|               were very distasteful to Plato, who esteemed genius far
53 Phaedr|             overspread all Hellas; and Plato with prophetic insight may