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1 Intro| acquaintances, whom he criticizes ab extra; we do not recognize
2 Intro| in which generous youth abide. On land you may hunt tame
3 Intro| based upon experience: it abrogates the distinction of a priori
4 Intro| whether the method of ‘abscissio infinti,’ by which the Sophist
5 Soph| may be present or may be absent will be admitted by them
6 Intro| which all oppositions are absorbed and all contradictions affirmed,
7 Intro| disengages himself from them or absorbs himself in them. Moreover
8 Intro| Metaphysic is the negation or absorption of physiology— physiology
9 Intro| can any being be wholly abstracted from being? Again, in every
10 Intro| those who have no taste for abstruse metaphysics will greatly
11 Intro| move; here is a reductio ad absurdum. Two out of the three hypotheses
12 Soph| that this will be quite so acceptable to the rest of the company
13 Intro| his philosophy should be accepted as a whole or not at all.
14 Intro| rate, we shall be safer in accepting the general description
15 Intro| this is heightened by the accidental manner in which the discovery
16 Soph| task which would never be accomplished.~THEAETETUS: I perceive.~
17 Intro| from a desire to make them accord with the first and second
18 Soph| are quite right.~STRANGER: Accordingly, they set to work to eradicate
19 Intro| motion there were different accounts of the relation of plurality
20 Intro| the difficulties which are accumulating one upon another in the
21 Intro| Laws,—is very clear and accurate, and has several touches
22 Soph| reverence, and not be liable to accusations so serious. Yet one thing
23 Intro| the Statesman expressly accuses himself of a tediousness
24 Intro| tumbling out at our feet.’ Acknowledging that there is a communion
25 Soph| you have never made the acquaintance of the Sophist.~THEAETETUS:
26 Intro| good man will not readily acquiesce in this aphorism. He knows
27 | across
28 Intro| elsewhere, of whose endless activity of mind Aristotle in his
29 Intro| the abstract, in setting actuality before possibility, in excluding
30 | actually
31 Intro| move; here is a reductio ad absurdum. Two out of the
32 Intro| of figures, in order to adapt their works to the eye.
33 Intro| classes of pure and applied, adding to them there as elsewhere (
34 Soph| those whom they hunt in addition to other inducements.~THEAETETUS:
35 Intro| conveyed by the word; the additional association, if any, was
36 Soph| does she esteem him who adduces as his example of hunting,
37 Soph| great subjects are to be adequately treated, they must be studied
38 Intro| not undeserving of his admiration still. Perhaps if he were
39 Intro| he were asked how he can admire without believing, or what
40 Intro| that the opposition, if admissible at all, is not expressed
41 Soph| after having made these admissions, may we not be justly asked
42 Intro| impediment in the way of admitting the possibility of falsehood.
43 Soph| under the general term of admonition.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
44 Soph| cleverness, and that the admonitory sort of instruction gives
45 Intro| thought to be discerned in his adoption of a common instance before
46 Intro| one another. We see the advantage of viewing in the concrete
47 Soph| STRANGER: Do you speak advisedly, or are you carried away
48 Soph| their errors, or of gently advising them; which varieties may
49 Intro| understand one another from afar, notwithstanding the interval
50 Soph| possesses any sort of power to affect another, or to be affected
51 Soph| because participating in some affection from another, by the name
52 Soph| asserts either of these affections. But to show that somehow
53 Intro| far the unknown element affects the known, whether, for
54 Intro| he had already claimed an affinity with Theaetetus, grounded
55 Intro| that the bad sense was not affixed by his genius, but already
56 Intro| paradoxes have temporarily afforded him, is proved to be a dissembler
57 | afterwards
58 Soph| style is far from being agreeable to the majority of his hearers,
59 Intro| pursuit of the Sophist.~Agreeing in the truth of the third
60 Soph| are, Socrates, true to our agreement of yesterday; and we bring
61 Soph| they?~STRANGER: There is agriculture, and the tending of mortal
62 Intro| termed a ‘most gracious aid to thought.’~The doctrine
63 Intro| down. So far as they are aids to reflection and expression,
64 Soph| things having motion, and aiming at an appointed mark, continually
65 Intro| but is floating in the air; the mind has been imperceptibly
66 Intro| we attempt to pursue such airy phantoms at all, the Hegelian
67 Intro| a plus in Arithmetic and Algebra. Again, we may liken the
68 Intro| appear to have been very alien to the tendency of the Cynics.~
69 Soph| disciples, they appear to be all-wise?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
70 Intro| men keuthe eni phresin, allo de eipe.~For their difficulty
71 Intro| world to him. He makes no allowance for the element of chance
72 Soph| Certainly.~STRANGER: And, allowing that justice, wisdom, the
73 Intro| Greece; (2) that he nowhere alludes to the ethical teaching
74 Soph| THEAETETUS: To what are you alluding? I do not think that I understand
75 | along
76 Intro| often use illusions, and alter the proportions of figures,
77 Intro| meaning has been enlarged or altered. Examples of the former
78 Soph| admit this, then, to be the amatory art.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
79 Soph| meagre sense is thrown into amazement by these discoveries of
80 | amongst
81 Soph| in a way which is most amusing to the hearer, and produces
82 Soph| then, pursuing the same analytic method as before, I think
83 Intro| Being in general. Before analyzing further the topics thus
84 Soph| drawing up (aspalieutike, anaspasthai).~THEAETETUS: The result
85 Intro| they are a metaphysical anatomy, not a living and thinking
86 Soph| easy task; for among the ancients there was some confusion
87 Intro| not have stamped the word anew, or have imparted the associations
88 Soph| opposed to desire, pleasure to anger, reason to pain, and that
89 Soph| respect. He, seeing this, is angry with himself, and grows
90 Intro| this universal frame may be animated by a divine intelligence.
91 Intro| to make upon him. Men are annoyed at what puzzles them; they
92 Intro| Metaphysics has preserved an anonymous memorial.~V. The Sophist
93 Intro| of others. He starts from antecedents, but he is great in proportion
94 Intro| is of relations; it also anticipates the doctrine of Spinoza
95 Intro| a measure the credit of anticipating Spinoza and Hegel. But his
96 Soph| hard to determine; besides, antiquity and famous men should have
97 Intro| confounded in the mind of Anytus, or Callicles, or of any
98 Intro| readily acquiesce in this aphorism. He knows of course that
99 Soph| prevailing under the sway of Aphrodite, and then again plurality
100 Intro| complain of this in the Apology. But there is no reason
101 Intro| some ecclesiastical terms: apostles, prophets, bishops, elders,
102 Intro| divine imitations, such as apparitions and shadows and reflections,
103 Intro| The philosophy of Hegel appeals to an historical criterion:
104 Intro| countries, there are always appearing ‘fragments of the great
105 Soph| what we were to assign the appellation of not-being, we were in
106 Soph| STRANGER: You hear them applauding, Theaetetus; after that,
107 Intro| questions, and never thought of applying the categories of Being
108 Soph| motion, and aiming at an appointed mark, continually miss their
109 Intro| to deny.~...~True to the appointment of the previous day, Theodorus
110 Intro| intuition. Neither can we appreciate a great system without yielding
111 Intro| for us, and obscure our appreciation of facts. As the complexity
112 Soph| that if we are not able to apprehend with perfect clearness the
113 Intro| and moral world be truly apprehended without the assistance of
114 Intro| caught, I think that, before approaching him, we should try our hand
115 Soph| thing receiving also its appropriate colour.~THEAETETUS: Is not
116 Soph| imitation—all these may be appropriately called by a single name.~
117 Soph| traced as a branch of the appropriative, acquisitive family—which
118 Intro| the origin of Aristotle’s Architectonic, which seems, however, to
119 Soph| such persons are tremendous argufiers, and are able to impart
120 Soph| active or passive energy, arising out of a certain power which
121 Intro| minus signs make a plus in Arithmetic and Algebra. Again, we may
122 Soph| motion. Between the two armies, Theaetetus, there is always
123 Intro| weapons borrowed from his own armoury. As we have already seen,
124 Intro| his system which would be aroused among his opponents, he
125 Intro| ideas of the sciences and to arrange them in relation to one
126 Intro| world and in man.~Plato arranges in order the stages of knowledge
127 Intro| the higher science which arrays them in harmonious order,
128 Soph| STRANGER: Yes, for he now arrives at the point of giving an
129 Soph| And the other, which is an articulate mark set on those who do
130 Soph| STRANGER: And is there any more artistic or graceful form of jest
131 Soph| degree of deception; for artists were to give the true proportions
132 Intro| number, and the like, (2) ascending from presentations, that
133 Intro| Being or reality can be ascribed to Not-being, and therefore
134 Soph| one else.~STRANGER: I feel ashamed, Socrates, being a new-comer
135 Soph| denoted angling or drawing up (aspalieutike, anaspasthai).~THEAETETUS:
136 Intro| is. There is no room for aspiration and no need of any: ‘What
137 Intro| Before we make the final assault, let us take breath, and
138 Soph| STRANGER: And what about the assertors of the oneness of the all—
139 Intro| able to agree with him in assimilating the natural order of human
140 Intro| apprehended without the assistance of new forms of thought.
141 Intro| progression by antagonism, further assists us in framing a scheme or
142 Intro| anew, or have imparted the associations which occur in contemporary
143 Soph| confidence that not-being has an assured existence, and a nature
144 Soph| nothing.~THEAETETUS: Most assuredly.~STRANGER: And as we cannot
145 Intro| projected into space became the atoms and void of Leucippus and
146 Intro| without any bad meaning attaching to it (Symp.; Meno). In
147 Intro| extent; but he has not yet attained a complete mastery over
148 Intro| symmetry, or failure in the attainment of a mark or measure. The
149 Intro| because the truth which he attains by a real effort of thought
150 Intro| or other sophistry vainly attempts to deny.~...~True to the
151 Soph| of furbishing in general attend in a number of minute particulars,
152 Intro| is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication,
153 Intro| Hegelian system, which is attractive to him.~Neither are we able
154 Soph| belief which, as you say, attracts you, I will not forestall
155 Intro| predication there is an attribution of singular or plural. But
156 Soph| falsehood exists has the audacity to assert the being of not-being;
157 Soph| through the lips and is audible is called speech?~THEAETETUS:
158 Soph| out of their own bellies audibly contradicts them.~THEAETETUS:
159 Soph| by man for those who are awake?~THEAETETUS: Quite true.~
160 Intro| dispel some errors and to awaken an interest about it. (i)
161 Intro| disengaged from sense, has become awakened. The present has been the
162 Soph| is clearly the new-born babe of some one who is only
163 Intro| ethical idea of goodness or badness. Poets as well as philosophers
164 Soph| conversation is pleasing and who baits his hook only with pleasure
165 Intro| mankind. Few attain to a balance of principles or recognize
166 Soph| well-rounded sphere, Evenly balanced from the centre on every
167 Intro| geometry can express,’ from the balancer of sentences, the interpreter
168 Intro| rather than of knowledge, banded together against the few
169 Intro| fragments of the great banquet’ of Hegel.~
170 Soph| striking was fishing with a barb, and one half of this again,
171 Soph| term.~STRANGER: Of this barb-fishing, that which strikes the
172 Soph| existences from one another is a barbarism and utterly unworthy of
173 Soph| called by the general name of barbing, because the spears, too,
174 Intro| the successive rinds or barks of trees which year by year
175 Intro| mankind had got beyond his barren abstractions: they were
176 Soph| food of the soul which is bartered and received in exchange
177 Intro| Plato, unlike Hegel, nowhere bases his system on the unity
178 Intro| existence,’ have hardly any basis either in language or philosophy,
179 Soph| very dignified art of the bath-man; and there is the purification
180 Intro| purifications of the animate, and bathing the external; and of the
181 Intro| of sense to the idea of beauty and good. Mind is in motion
182 Intro| logic is the Procrustes’ bed into which they are forced.~
183 Intro| that any similar calamity befalling a nation should be a matter
184 | beforehand
185 Soph| and therefore I shall only beg of you to say whether you
186 Soph| and they were married and begat children, and brought them
187 Intro| peace again, marrying and begetting children; another of two
188 Intro| build up in a new form the ‘beggarly elements’ of scholastic
189 Intro| hardly true even of the beginnings of thought. And in later
190 Intro| categories—a work which was only begun by Kant, and elaborated
191 Soph| nothing to answer on their behalf. Suppose that you take all
192 Soph| give whole a place among beings, cannot speak either of
193 Intro| admirers? ‘Because he is believed by them to know all things.’
194 Intro| how he can admire without believing, or what value he can attribute
195 Soph| Eurycles, who out of their own bellies audibly contradicts them.~
196 Intro| between them which seems to belong to both; and there is as
197 Soph| remember the fifth myself. He belonged to the fighting class, and
198 Intro| the current which flows beneath. The character of an individual,
199 Intro| much of the greater or less benefits conferred by them. For her
200 Intro| difficulty which has always beset the subject of appearances.
201 Intro| and immediate. As Luther’s Bible was written in the language
202 Soph| Sophist.~STRANGER: Shall we bind up his name as we did before,
203 Soph| all other purifications, binding them up together and separating
204 Intro| affairs of men, for, as his biographer tells us, ‘he lived for
205 Soph| which the hunting of all birds is included.~THEAETETUS:
206 Intro| Statesman, if we cannot bisect species, we must carve them
207 Intro| an ancient philosopher, Bishop Berkeley, feeling a similar
208 Intro| terms: apostles, prophets, bishops, elders, catholics. Examples
209 Soph| they break up into little bits by their arguments, and
210 Intro| dialogues; and there is more of bitterness, as in the Laws, though
211 Intro| the Eristic here seems to blend with Plato’s usual description
212 Intro| Not-being’ are inextricably blended.~Plato restricts the conception
213 Soph| which he who would be truly blessed ought to be fairest and
214 Soph| needed.~STRANGER: Yes, a blind man, as they say, might
215 Soph| real Sophist to be of this blood and lineage will say the
216 Intro| Hippocrates, when with a blush upon his face which is just
217 Intro| the fancy of Plato, now boastful, now eristic, now clothing
218 Intro| required in the sciences. Hegel boasts that the movement of dialectic
219 Soph| distinctness, I will make bold to call the imitation which
220 Soph| THEAETETUS: It would be a strange boldness in me which would attempt
221 Soph| especially, are a sort of bond which pervades all the other
222 Intro| one another. There is a border ground between them which
223 Intro| mental science, and which was born and bred in the decay of
224 Intro| antagonism to them. One man is borne on the surface of the water;
225 Intro| invention of an individual brain. The ‘beyond’ is always
226 Soph| original, similar in length and breadth and depth, each thing receiving
227 Soph| be the very truth, they break up into little bits by their
228 Intro| force of their individuality breaking through the uniformity which
229 Intro| answers them in their own breast. For they cannot help using
230 Intro| and which was born and bred in the decay of the pre-Socratic
231 Intro| wanted at the time. We will briefly consider how far these statements
232 Soph| produced when the light in bright and smooth objects meets
233 Soph| sort—rivers of wealth and broad meadow-lands of generous
234 Intro| description of the ‘great brute’ in the Republic, and in
235 Intro| with, or to allow him to build up in a new form the ‘beggarly
236 Soph| one house by the art of building, and another by the art
237 Intro| minuteness. He has lightened the burden of thought because he has
238 Soph| may fabricate as well as buy these same wares, intending
239 Soph| of another by selling and buying is the exchange of the merchant?~
240 Intro| the rhythmical monotonous cadence of the Laws begin to appear;
241 Intro| necessary, or that any similar calamity befalling a nation should
242 Intro| in the mind of Anytus, or Callicles, or of any intelligent Athenian,
243 Soph| several natures and their capacity of communion with one another,
244 Soph| philosophers.~SOCRATES: Capital, my friend! and I may add
245 Soph| better now discuss the chief captain and leader of them.~THEAETETUS:
246 Intro| on their way without much caring whether we understood them
247 Soph| which reason twig baskets, casting-nets, nooses, creels, and the
248 Intro| of that of Jesuitism or casuistry (Wallace). He affords an
249 Intro| one kind uses enclosures, catching the fish in nets and baskets,
250 Soph| must be placed in the same category with the not-just—the one
251 Intro| prophets, bishops, elders, catholics. Examples of the latter
252 Soph| reason why their opponents cautiously defend themselves from above,
253 Intro| not-being. I think that we must cease to look for him in the class
254 Intro| philosophy, even when he has ceased to believe in him. He returns
255 Intro| centripetal as well as a centrifugal force, a regulator as well
256 Intro| that in nature there is a centripetal as well as a centrifugal
257 Intro| the course of about two centuries by a process of antagonism
258 Intro| he has shown us that the chains which we wear are of our
259 Intro| essence, notion, and the like challenged and defined. For if Hegel
260 Intro| only existed a tumultuous chaos of mythological fancy, but
261 Intro| am exposing myself to the charge of inconsistency in asserting
262 Intro| the art of illusion; the charlatan, the foreigner, the prince
263 Soph| injustice and cowardice, is not chastisement the art which is most required?~
264 Soph| little ought to be of good cheer, for what would he who is
265 Intro| whom his soul hates—~os chi eteron men keuthe eni phresin,
266 Soph| refutation is the greatest and chiefest of purifications, and he
267 Intro| philosophy consisted only or chiefly in the categories of logic.
268 Soph| kindly to you, and you can choose whom you like of them; I
269 Intro| prefers the latter, and chooses as his respondent Theaetetus,
270 Intro| Yet the example is also chosen in order to damage the ‘
271 Intro| forget the uncertainty of chronology;—if, as Aristotle says,
272 Intro| compasses’ measures out the circumference of the universe (Milton,
273 Intro| again philosophy clothed in circumstance expands into history. (iii)
274 Soph| succeeded thus far, the citadel is ours, and what remains
275 Soph| decorous than another who cites that of the vermin-destroyer,
276 Soph| men, and they ‘hover about cities,’ as Homer declares, looking
277 Intro| on this ground reject the claim of the Sophist to be the
278 Intro| relationship, as he had already claimed an affinity with Theaetetus,
279 Soph| concern, for the Sophist was classed with imitators indeed, but
280 Intro| beginning to analyze, to classify, to define, to ask what
281 Intro| should at least be added the clause ‘or neither,’ ‘or both.’
282 Intro| nourishment unless he has been cleaned out; and the soul of the
283 Intro| the inanimate, fulling and cleaning and other humble processes,
284 Soph| was a purger of souls, who cleared away notions obstructive
285 Soph| in order that we may have clearer grounds for determining,
286 Soph| acknowledge that the Sophist is a clever rogue who will not be got
287 Soph| creature. And now in the cleverest manner he has got into an
288 Soph| is conscious of his own cleverness, and that the admonitory
289 Intro| many external conditions of climate, country, and the like,
290 Soph| being.’~STRANGER: You follow close at my heels, Theaetetus.
291 Soph| answer me, giving your very closest attention. Suppose that
292 Intro| philosophy, and again philosophy clothed in circumstance expands
293 Intro| boastful, now eristic, now clothing himself in rags of philosophy,
294 Intro| Shakespeare (Twelfth Night, ‘Clown: For as the old hermit of
295 Intro| of Being, and in a sense co-extensive with Being. And there are
296 Intro| experience ‘on a level with the cobbler’s understanding’ (Theat.).
297 Intro| class of Being, and yet as coextensive with Being in general. Before
298 Soph| whole class of learning and cognition; then comes trade, fighting,
299 Soph| and made them marry and cohabit. The Eleatics, however,
300 Intro| modern philosophy. Many coincidences which occur in them are
301 Soph| opinions; these they then collect by the dialectical process,
302 Soph| regarded individually or collectively, in many respects are, and
303 Soph| receiving also its appropriate colour.~THEAETETUS: Is not this
304 Soph| that we attribute to him colours and forms and magnitudes
305 Intro| in Greek philosophy; he combines the teacher of virtue with
306 Intro| from the outward form, (3) combining the I and the not-I, or
307 Intro| Greece. For the purposes of comedy, Socrates may have been
308 Intro| of his presence, at the commencement, by a characteristic jest
309 Intro| of image-making.~...~In commenting on the dialogue in which
310 Soph| among men. And may not your companion be one of those higher powers,
311 Soph| the god of strangers, are companions of the meek and just, and
312 Intro| divisibility of matter. And in comparatively modern times, though in
313 Intro| or with ‘a golden pair of compasses’ measures out the circumference
314 Soph| private and in short speeches compels the person who is conversing
315 Intro| school was supplemented or compensated by another. They were all
316 Soph| shall be one division of the competitive, and another of the pugnacious.~
317 Intro| either of them to be the complement of the other. Both are creations
318 Intro| of opposites is finally completed in all its stages, the mind
319 Intro| appreciation of facts. As the complexity of mechanics cannot be understood
320 Intro| the simplest sentence is composed of two words, and one of
321 Intro| universe by theories of composition and division, whether out
322 Soph| those who would at one time compound, and at another resolve
323 Soph| finite elements, and forming compounds out of these; whether they
324 Intro| narrower type is capable of comprehending all true facts.~The Hegelian
325 Intro| when he says that Being comprehends Not-being. Again, we should
326 Intro| be a use with a view to comprehensiveness in dropping individuals
327 Intro| up ourselves in our own conceits—to be confusing cause and
328 Intro| of sense? It was hardly conceivable that one could be other,
329 Intro| which in a similar spirit he conceives to be even older than Xenophanes (
330 Intro| statesman may be justly condemned, who is on a level with
331 Intro| extent all our knowledge is conditional upon what may be known in
332 Intro| subject to so many external conditions of climate, country, and
333 Intro| person’s character and his conduct. His spirit is the opposite
334 Intro| metaphysical fancy which conducts him from one determination
335 Intro| greater or less benefits conferred by them. For her aim is
336 Intro| When Protagoras says, ‘I confess that I am a Sophist,’ he
337 Soph| and yet ventures to speak confidently about anything.~THEAETETUS:
338 Soph| his testimony, which is confirmed by the very expression when
339 Soph| there is always an endless conflict raging concerning these
340 Intro| reflection easier and more conformable to experience, and also
341 Intro| would really have been confounded in the mind of Anytus, or
342 Intro| of the negative, and he confuses the different classes of
343 Intro| in our own conceits—to be confusing cause and effect—to be losing
344 Soph| shown to have a sort of conjectural or apparent knowledge only
345 Intro| the might of youth, and I conjure you to exert yourself, and,
346 Soph| this; for one objection connects with another, and they are
347 Intro| expression of an indolent conservatism, and will at any rate be
348 Soph| Indeed there is a very considerable crack; for if you look,
349 Soph| those who make being to consist in ideas, there will be
350 Intro| imagined that philosophy consisted only or chiefly in the categories
351 Intro| internal evidence of its own consistency; it has a place for every
352 Intro| of the life of Christ as consisting in his ‘Schicksalslosigkeit’
353 Intro| philosophy or religion to console us under evils which are
354 Soph| that without a vowel one consonant cannot be joined to another.~
355 Intro| therefore the edifice which is constructed out of them has merely an
356 Soph| it is high time to hold a consultation as to what we ought to do
357 Intro| creature, which is a body containing a soul, and to this they
358 Soph| that it has no soul which contains them?~THEAETETUS: And in
359 Intro| in the world? Or when we contemplate the infinite worlds in the
360 Intro| as the mind, lost in the contemplation of Being, asked no more
361 Intro| seem to have sprung up contemporaneously in different parts of Greece
362 Intro| representing their power to be contemptible; they are to be despised
363 Soph| an unseen world, mightily contending that true essence consists
364 Soph| the pugnacious which is a contest of bodily strength may be
365 Soph| subdivisions of hunting, contests, merchandize, and the like.~
366 Soph| aiming at an appointed mark, continually miss their aim and glance
367 Intro| forms, in alternation or continuance, share the same fate. Most
368 Soph| to the end of his life he continued to inculcate the same lesson—
369 Intro| the two dialogues Socrates continues a silent auditor, in the
370 Intro| another reason, because in continuing the hunt after the Sophist
371 Intro| attributes of divisibility and continuousness. We may ponder over the
372 Intro| the meaning has been both contracted and enlarged. Passages may
373 Soph| only a discussion about contracts, and is carried on at random,
374 Intro| be traced as being the / contradictious / dissembling / without
375 Soph| their own bellies audibly contradicts them.~THEAETETUS: Precisely
376 Intro| importance of showing that two contraries or contradictories may in
377 Intro| expressing the complex or contrary aspects of life and nature.
378 Intro| the Republic, and in the contrast of the lawyer and philosopher
379 Soph| whatever part of the other is contrasted with being, this is precisely
380 Intro| simplicity of the words contrasts with the hardness of their
381 Intro| in a neutral sense for a contriver or deviser or inventor,
382 Soph| respond, having already conversed with him myself, and being
383 Intro| indistinguishable. There was no reproach conveyed by the word; the additional
384 Intro| involuntary. The latter convicts a man out of his own mouth,
385 Soph| not-being, let a man either convince us of error, or, so long
386 Intro| ignorance of mankind he is convinced that without any interruption
387 Soph| anything is made by producing a copy which is executed according
388 Intro| now, having got him in a corner of the dialectical net,
389 Intro| deformity of the body, so correction cures the injustice, and
390 Intro| analysis may be of value as a corrective of popular language or thought,
391 Intro| must suppose a common or correlative growth in them, we shrink
392 Intro| phenomena? If many of them are correlatives they are not all so, and
393 Soph| are not them, but which correspond to them; and these are also
394 Intro| assumption that there is a correspondence between the succession of
395 Intro| and the like, there is a corresponding negative idea—‘not-just,’ ‘
396 Soph| The name of art-seller corresponds well enough to the latter;
397 Intro| that any individuals can corrupt youth to a degree worth
398 Intro| philosophies going back into cosmogony and poetry: the philosophy
399 Intro| Eleatic that he will be counted a parricide if he ventures
400 Intro| of poetry. He is the true countryman of his contemporaries Goethe
401 Soph| she makes comparisons, she counts one of them not a whit more
402 Soph| ungracious if I refuse your courteous request, especially after
403 Intro| and the Sophist is the cousin of the parasite and flatterer.
404 Intro| some of the parts, will cover the whole field of philosophy.
405 Soph| and every art, what the craftsman ought to say in answer to
406 Soph| with an external light, and creates a perception the opposite
407 Intro| from under them; and all creators of the universe by theories
408 Soph| baskets, casting-nets, nooses, creels, and the like may all be
409 Soph| capture of him; and if he creeps into the recesses of the
410 Intro| is certainly the greatest critic of philosophy who ever lived.
411 Intro| He never appears to have criticized himself, or to have subjected
412 Intro| analysis, of division and cross-division, are clearly described,
413 Soph| of those higher powers, a cross-examining deity, who has come to spy
414 Intro| find in the Sophist the crown and summit of the Platonic
415 Intro| and this not by a mere crude substitution of one word
416 Intro| when he tells us that ‘the Crusaders went to the Sepulchre but
417 Intro| unity of opposites was the crux of ancient thinkers in the
418 Intro| with his neighbours, and is cured of prejudices and obstructions
419 Intro| side with a neutral one. A curious effect is produced on the
420 Intro| disguises of language and custom. He will not allow men to
421 Intro| idea to another until the cycle of human thought and existence
422 Intro| also chosen in order to damage the ‘hooker of men’ as much
423 Intro| opportunity of making the most damaging reflections on the Sophist
424 Intro| mind was exposed to many dangers, and often~‘Found no end
425 Intro| intelligences of mankind—Plato, Dante, Sir Thomas More—meet in
426 Soph| The difficulties which are dawning upon us prove this; for
427 Intro| keuthe eni phresin, allo de eipe.~For their difficulty
428 Intro| seeking the living among the dead’ and dignifying a mere logical
429 Soph| and he will be utterly deaf to those who assert universal
430 Intro| height of philosophy. This dearly obtained freedom, however,
431 Soph| will still fight to the death against the existence of
432 Soph| distinguished as a hero of debate, who professed the eristic
433 Intro| was born and bred in the decay of the pre-Socratic philosophies,
434 Intro| of all of them; all other deceivers have a piece of him in them.
435 Soph| STRANGER: When we say that he deceives us with an illusion, and
436 Soph| unless these questions are decided in one way or another, no
437 Soph| there is one thing which he decidedly will not escape.~THEAETETUS:
438 Intro| a perpetually recurring decimal the object of our worship.
439 Soph| participate in being, you declare that they are.~THEAETETUS:
440 Soph| general’s art, at all more decorous than another who cites that
441 Intro| And in the Parmenides he deduces the many from the one and
442 Intro| processes of induction and deduction are constantly employed
443 Soph| and expect that you will deem me mad, when you hear of
444 Intro| intellectual, and the like, are deepened and widened by the formal
445 Intro| repartee whom no one ever defeated in an argument, was separated,
446 Intro| because our knowledge is defective. In the passage from the
447 Intro| logic which elevates the defects of the human faculties into
448 Soph| seems to have abundance of defences, which he throws up, and
449 Intro| have found an enthusiastic defender in the distinguished historian
450 Soph| to refer them to God, I defer to your authority.~STRANGER:
451 Soph| consideration of most of them may be deferred; but we had better now discuss
452 Intro| any indication that the deficiency which was felt in one school
453 Intro| relative or other of Being, the defining and distinguishing principle,
454 Intro| respects Athens may have degenerated; but, as Mr. Grote remarks,
455 Soph| powers, a cross-examining deity, who has come to spy out
456 Intro| noble; but the strength of a Delian diver is needed to swim
457 Intro| embodied? Has not Hegel himself delineated the greatness of the life
458 Intro| and the equally humourous delineation of the friends of ideas,
459 Soph| according to orders and deliver him over to reason, who
460 Soph| others, and thus is entirely delivered from great prejudices and
461 Intro| illusions from which Hegel delivers us by placing us above ourselves,
462 Intro| mathematics. If all sciences demand of us protracted study and
463 Intro| one element after another, demanded a more abstract and perfect
464 Soph| be no impropriety in our demanding an answer to this question,
465 Soph| the sake of virtue, and demands a reward in the shape of
466 Intro| world by the help of the demigods’ (Plato, Tim.), or with ‘
467 Soph| nature of the operation is denoted angling or drawing up (aspalieutike,
468 Soph| them.~STRANGER: That which denotes action we call a verb.~THEAETETUS:
469 Intro| popularity in Germany has departed, and he, like the philosophers
470 Intro| in the Politicus of his departing shadow in the disguise of
471 Intro| by such a description to depict Protagoras or Gorgias, or
472 Intro| Republic, are frequently depicted as endeavouring to save
473 Intro| layers of thought to the deposits of geological strata which
474 Soph| in length and breadth and depth, each thing receiving also
475 Intro| adopted by the obnoxious or derided class; this tends to define
476 Intro| have nothing to do with its derivation. He lived before the days
477 Intro| another—the transition from Descartes to Spinoza or from Locke
478 Intro| mind or thought, we may descend by a series of negations
479 Intro| a sufficient reason for describing them as skilful in physics,
480 Soph| should have two names,—one descriptive of the sale of the knowledge
481 Soph| distinctive name, and does not deserve to receive one from us.~
482 Intro| evil name; that, whether deserved or not, was a natural consequence
483 Soph| imprison the Sophist, if he deserves it, or, if not, we will
484 Intro| remarkable expression Plato designates those who more nearly approached
485 Soph| mind about me; I am only desirous that you should carry on
486 Soph| how we never found out our desperate case.~STRANGER: Reflect:
487 Soph| body exists they altogether despise him, and will hear of nothing
488 Intro| contemptible; they are to be despised rather than feared, and
489 Intro| of names or persons, or a despiser of humble occupations; nor
490 Intro| or independence of the destiny of his race? Do not persons
491 Intro| vanishes and the essence is detached in thought from the outward
492 Soph| follow and criticize in detail every argument, and when
493 Intro| things, if we leave out details, a certain degree of order
494 Soph| there is no difficulty in detecting them; but we can tell him
495 Intro| which is engaged in the detection of conceit. I do not however
496 Intro| opposite sides or views—men are determined by their natural bent to
497 Soph| knowledge of classes which determines where they can have communion
498 Intro| sense for a contriver or deviser or inventor, without including
499 Intro| are rude and ignorant of dialectics; they must be taught how
500 Intro| the fallacy of arguing ‘a dicto secundum,’ and in a circle,