Dialogue

 1 Phileb|          of the later writings of Plato, in which the style has
 2 Phileb|   ignorance of the opinions which Plato is attacking is also an
 3 Phileb|          enable us to supply what Plato has not told us; or to explain,
 4 Phileb|        are we able to say how far Plato in the Philebus conceives
 5 Phileb|     progress in the philosophy of Plato. The transcendental theory
 6 Phileb|         all the later writings of Plato, the element of love is
 7 Phileb|       Platonic dialogue. Here, as Plato expressly tells us, he is ‘
 8 Phileb|          to be the ideal at which Plato aims in his later dialogues.
 9 Phileb|          philosophy and poetry in Plato’s own mind, or perhaps,
10 Phileb|         all the later writings of Plato, there are not wanting thoughts
11 Phileb|         longer a stumbling-block.~Plato’s difficulty seems to begin
12 Phileb|          difficulties are raised, Plato seems prepared to desert
13 Phileb|         notion of modern science.~Plato describes with ludicrous
14 Phileb|          in the Republic. To this Plato opposes the revelation from
15 Phileb|           to have imparted to us. Plato is speaking of two things—(
16 Phileb|           the contradiction, like Plato’s, only begins in a higher
17 Phileb|        Many.’~II. 1. The first of Plato’s categories or elements
18 Phileb|          To a Greek of the age of Plato, the idea of an infinite
19 Phileb|       they make the discovery, as Plato has done in the Sophist,
20 Phileb|           wrong in attributing to Plato the conception of laws of
21 Phileb|          third class. First, that Plato seems to be unconscious
22 Phileb|          well as in the Republic, Plato conceives beauty under the
23 Phileb|     finite and infinite, to which Plato ascribes the order of the
24 Phileb|          of conceiving God.~a. To Plato, the idea of God or mind
25 Phileb|      thing and a person, while to Plato, by the help of various
26 Phileb|            which is His work. But Plato, though not a Pantheist,
27 Phileb|           of pleasure and wisdom. Plato has been saying that we
28 Phileb|        after their kinds.~III. 1. Plato speaks of pleasure as indefinite,
29 Phileb|      nevertheless real goods, and Plato rightly regards them as
30 Phileb| philosophy which has passed away. Plato himself seems to have suspected
31 Phileb|        Aristotle, who agrees with Plato in many points, e.g. in
32 Phileb|          he is also in advance of Plato; for he affirms that pleasure
33 Phileb|        generation (Nic. Eth.).~4. Plato attempts to identify vicious
34 Phileb|         It is difficult to acquit Plato, to use his own language,
35 Phileb|        expels the other. Nor does Plato seem to have considered
36 Phileb|        thirst which precede them. Plato’s conception is derived
37 Phileb|         antecedent pains, has led Plato to place under one head
38 Phileb|       appears to have occurred to Plato. Nor has he any distinction
39 Phileb|  beautiful in external things.~7. Plato agrees partially with certain ‘
40 Phileb|        far from being impossible. Plato’s omission to mention them
41 Phileb|  satisfactory in the dialogues of Plato. While the ethical nature
42 Phileb|           be happy who, to borrow Plato’s illustration, is leading
43 Phileb|    unmixed. The distinction which Plato here makes seems to be the
44 Phileb|           we admit of course what Plato seems to feel in his distinctions
45 Phileb|         further investigated.~(I) Plato seems to proceed in his
46 Phileb|         interpret one dialogue of Plato by another, the sciences
47 Phileb|           quotation from Orpheus: Plato means to say that a sixth
48 Phileb|         the other dialogues. Here Plato shows the same indifference
49 Phileb| superficial notion may arise that Plato probably wrote shorter dialogues,
50 Phileb|          more easily suppose that Plato composed shorter writings
51 Phileb|           we should probably find Plato in the midst of the fray
52 Phileb|      ignorance of themselves. But Plato seems to think further that
53 Phileb|         thus confirmed by that of Plato, and we are therefore justified
54 Phileb|           view; and he, or rather Plato speaking in his person,
55 Phileb| Utilitarianism). In the Philebus, Plato, although he regards the
56 Phileb|         many reasons why not only Plato but mankind in general have
57 Phileb|          so far from us—Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics,
58 Phileb|           that which Socrates and Plato ‘grew old in seeking’? Are
59 Phileb|           the age of Socrates and Plato, who, in their turn, are
60 Phileb|         such as the chief good of Plato, which may be best expressed
61 Phileb|      place for Kant or Hegel, for Plato and Aristotle alongside
62 Phileb|           time of the writings of Plato with the exception of the
63 Phileb|       element which distinguishes Plato, not only from the presocratic
64 Phileb|         Parmenides or Philebus of Plato, and the Physics or Metaphysics
65 Phileb| transition from one to the other. Plato and Aristotle do not dovetail
66 Phileb|            At any rate, it is not Plato who is to be interpreted
67 Phileb|       Aristotle, but Aristotle by Plato. Of all philosophy and of
68 Phileb|          by himself.~But although Plato in the Philebus does not
69 Phileb|           treated of elsewhere in Plato, is here analysed with great
70 Phileb|          there are many things in Plato which have been lost in
71 Phileb|      Aristotle not to be found in Plato. The most remarkable deficiency
72 Phileb|            is not an advance upon Plato, but a return to the poor
73 Phileb|       contrasts unfavourably with Plato’s general discussion of
74 Phileb|        are very characteristic of Plato, and which we shall do well
75 Phileb|         dependence is regarded by Plato (to which modern science
76 Phileb|           knowledge in the age of Plato, the boldness with which