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501 Soph| being and the other entirely differed; for, if the other, like
502 Intro| Plato would have written differently, if he had been acquainted
503 Intro| to suppose that Socrates, differing by so many outward marks,
504 Intro| injustice, and education (which differs among the Hellenes from
505 Soph| the latter by the not very dignified art of the bath-man; and
506 Intro| living among the dead’ and dignifying a mere logical skeleton
507 Intro| dialogues of Plato appears to diminish as the metaphysical interest
508 Intro| without any increase or diminution (Theat.). But the perplexity
509 Intro| produced by it; and we can dimly imagine how this universal
510 Intro| with the Parmenides by a direct allusion (compare Introductions
511 Intro| them always rather at a disadvantage in the company of Socrates.
512 Intro| higher and lower pitch which disagreed once, but are now reconciled
513 Soph| elements, originating in some disagreement?~THEAETETUS: Just that.~
514 Intro| two, which may probably be disallowed hereafter. And so, from
515 Intro| the poetical charm has disappeared, and those who have no taste
516 Intro| philosophy would be as much disarranged as his order of religious
517 Intro| There is no ground for disbelieving that the principal Sophists,
518 Soph| before, I think that I can discern two divisions of the imitative
519 Soph| What is it?~STRANGER: Every discernment or discrimination of that
520 Intro| philosopher. He is the master who discerns one whole or form pervading
521 Soph| And therefore, to their disciples, they appear to be all-wise?~
522 Soph| task when I see you thus discomfited.~STRANGER: Say no more of
523 Intro| Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents
524 Soph| STRANGER: Then let us not be discouraged about the future; but now
525 Soph| therefore we say that he discourses, and to this connexion of
526 Soph| them, without any great discredit.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~
527 Intro| exhibit him in the most discreditable light.~Nor need we seriously
528 Intro| unless the term had been discredited. There is nothing surprising
529 Intro| the continuous and the discrete, cause and effect, are perpetually
530 Soph| The art of discerning or discriminating.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~
531 Soph| STRANGER: Every discernment or discrimination of that kind, as I have
532 Intro| once into philosophical discussions; the poetical charm has
533 Intro| genius like Democritus in the disdainful terms which he uses of the
534 Soph| went on their several ways disdaining to notice people like ourselves;
535 Intro| And as medicine cures the diseases and gymnastic the deformity
536 Intro| of the world, gradually disengaged from sense, has become awakened.
537 Intro| great in proportion as he disengages himself from them or absorbs
538 Intro| meaning of Aristotle has been disguised from us by his own appeal
539 Intro| of ‘not honourable’ and ‘dishonourable’; or unless the class is
540 Intro| great original thinker, the disinterested seeker after truth, the
541 Intro| existence.~Of the great dislike and childish impatience
542 Intro| representative of all that Plato most disliked in the moral and intellectual
543 Intro| thought is in process of disorganization; no absurdity or inconsistency
544 Intro| Hegelian philosophy may help to dispel some errors and to awaken
545 Intro| pre-Socratic philosophies, was not dispelled by Aristotle, but by Socrates
546 Soph| for what would he who is dispirited at a little progress do,
547 Intro| ingeniously arranged or displayed, are the image of God;—that
548 Soph| imply, not be altogether displeased if I flinch a little from
549 Intro| a little exaggeration or disproportion in some of the parts, will
550 Soph| mistaken, that he was a disputer?~THEAETETUS: We were.~STRANGER:
551 Soph| appear to be beautiful, disregarding the real ones.~THEAETETUS:
552 Intro| soon the human mind became dissatisfied with the emblem, and after
553 Intro| No other thinker has ever dissected the human mind with equal
554 Intro| Sophists the same kind of disservice with posterity which Pascal
555 Soph| but has hitherto had no distinctive name, and does not deserve
556 Soph| the doctrine of those who distribute being into immutable and
557 Soph| of the other is, and is distributed over all things in their
558 Intro| politics, without being disturbed by them. Whatever is, if
559 Intro| surrounds them. But such disturbers of the order of thought
560 Intro| the strength of a Delian diver is needed to swim through
561 Intro| after wandering in many diverging paths, we return to common
562 Intro| on earth; who appear in divers forms—now as statesmen,
563 Soph| under one class the most diverse sorts of things.~STRANGER:
564 Intro| from the least degree of diversity up to contradictory opposition.
565 Intro| reciter of the poets, the divider of the meanings of words,
566 Soph| name, except some sorts of diving, and other small matters,
567 Intro| tyrant of the mind, the dominant idea, which would allow
568 Intro| any longer think either of doubting or examining.~IV. The later
569 Intro| divine.~These are some of the doubts and suspicions which arise
570 Intro| for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of
571 Soph| STRANGER: Some of them are dragging down all things from heaven
572 Soph| aborigines, children of the dragon’s teeth, would have been
573 Intro| and in not attempting to draw a precise line between them.~
574 Soph| strikes with a hook and draws the fish from below upwards,
575 Soph| THEAETETUS: That would be a dreadful thing to admit, Stranger.~
576 Soph| drawing, which is a sort of dream created by man for those
577 Intro| philosophers have often dreamed. But even now the time has
578 Soph| difficult, and all their dreamy speculations are overturned
579 Soph| as he who sells meats and drinks?~THEAETETUS: To be sure
580 Intro| to comprehensiveness in dropping individuals and their lives
581 Soph| sign of one, some in the dual (tine) of two, some in the
582 Intro| of being. Turning to the dualist philosophers, we say to
583 Soph| call into our presence the dualistic philosophers and to interrogate
584 Soph| from the thing, implies duality.~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
585 Soph| see things which to our duller sight do not appear.~THEAETETUS:
586 Soph| of which the former is duly effected by medicine and
587 Soph| sculptures, pictures, and other duplicates.~STRANGER: I see, Theaetetus,
588 | during
589 Soph| leaving to some one else the duty of making the class and
590 Intro| Socrates, half in jest, half in earnest, declares that he must be
591 Soph| ignorance which specially earns the title of stupidity.~
592 Intro| of the materialists, or earth-born giants, ‘who grasped oaks
593 Intro| West is the way also to the East; the north pole of the magnet
594 Intro| class are furnished by some ecclesiastical terms: apostles, prophets,
595 Intro| teacher. Philosophy had become eclecticism and imitation: in the decline
596 Intro| imperfect syncretisms or eclecticisms in the history of philosophy.
597 Intro| value. And therefore the edifice which is constructed out
598 Soph| and utterly unworthy of an educated or philosophical mind.~THEAETETUS:
599 Intro| equally entertaining and effectual. The physician of the soul
600 Soph| encloses anything to prevent egress, may be rightly called an
601 Intro| keuthe eni phresin, allo de eipe.~For their difficulty was
602 Intro| require a difficult and elaborate explanation. The simplicity
603 Intro| only begun by Kant, and elaborated to the utmost by himself.
604 Soph| Socrates, the namesake of the elder Socrates, to help; he is
605 Soph| such matters—they are often elderly men, whose meagre sense
606 Intro| apostles, prophets, bishops, elders, catholics. Examples of
607 Intro| by the formal logic which elevates the defects of the human
608 Intro| inconsistency is too great to be elicited from the analysis of the
609 Intro| in the Eleatic Stranger eliciting his true character by a
610 Intro| modern philosopher, though emancipated from scholastic notions
611 Intro| great German thinker, an emancipation nearly complete from the
612 Intro| became dissatisfied with the emblem, and after ringing the changes
613 Intro| Divine life in which they are embodied? Has not Hegel himself delineated
614 Intro| Heracleitus); others (e.g. Empedocles) that there was an alternation
615 Intro| Eleatics, and, like Zeno, employing their negative dialectic
616 Intro| history of thought. But Hegel employs some of them absolutely,
617 Intro| the Sepulchre but found it empty.’ He delights to find vestiges
618 Soph| reasoning? Is it not possible to enchant the hearts of young men
619 Soph| that the imitative art has enclosed him, it is clear that we
620 Soph| kind—all that surrounds and encloses anything to prevent egress,
621 Soph| may be rightly called an enclosure.~THEAETETUS: Very true.~
622 Intro| false opinion, which is an encouraging sign of our probable success
623 Intro| the student. For it may encumber him without enlightening
624 Intro| are frequently depicted as endeavouring to save themselves from
625 Soph| life and soul, but although endowed with soul remains absolutely
626 Intro| predecessors—they are still ends to him, and not mere instruments
627 Intro| to Being; 6. they are the enemies of sense;—whether they are
628 Soph| was an active or passive energy, arising out of a certain
629 Intro| os chi eteron men keuthe eni phresin, allo de eipe.~For
630 Intro| received from him a real enlargement of mind, and much of the
631 Intro| may encumber him without enlightening his path; and it may weaken
632 Soph| answer he would make to the enquirer?~THEAETETUS: That is a difficult
633 Intro| character, and unites two enquirers, which are only in a somewhat
634 Soph| evasion, we must begin by enquiring into the nature of language,
635 Intro| entirely and hopelessly enslaved by them: ‘Die reinen Physiker
636 Intro| affirm that not-being cannot enter into discourse, and as he
637 Soph| the nature of the other entering into them all, makes each
638 Soph| shall I begin the perilous enterprise? I think that the road which
639 Intro| treatment which is equally entertaining and effectual. The physician
640 Intro| history and experience. The enthusiasm of his youth has passed
641 Intro| the Sophists have found an enthusiastic defender in the distinguished
642 Soph| and motion are in the most entire opposition to one another?~
643 Intro| philosopher who distinctly enunciated this principle; and though
644 Intro| Plato may have extended and envenomed the meaning, or that he
645 Intro| material element, the most equable and colourless and universal
646 Intro| master of language. But the equably diffused grace is gone;
647 Intro| said ‘All is water’ a new era began to dawn upon the world.
648 Soph| Accordingly, they set to work to eradicate the spirit of conceit in
649 Intro| attribute to what he knows to be erroneous, he might answer in some
650 Intro| foreigner, the prince of esprits-faux, the hireling who is not
651 Intro| likeness is really unreal, and essentially not. Here is a pretty complication
652 Soph| than another; nor does she esteem him who adduces as his example
653 Intro| Pericles), but honourable and estimable persons, who supplied a
654 | etc
655 Intro| under the form of time or of eternity, the spirit of dialectic
656 Intro| whom his soul hates—~os chi eteron men keuthe eni phresin,
657 Soph| the view of meeting this evasion, we must begin by enquiring
658 Soph| of a well-rounded sphere, Evenly balanced from the centre
659 Intro| common intelligence.~But this ever-growing idea of mind is really irreconcilable
660 Intro| appears and reappears in an ever-widening circle. Or our attention
661 Intro| in philosophy. Yet, as everybody knows, truth is not wholly
662 Intro| as well as the internal evidence of its own consistency;
663 Intro| Parmenides, and which was evidently common in the Socratic circle.
664 Intro| religion to console us under evils which are irremediable,
665 Intro| thoughts of philosophy were evolved.~There is nothing like this
666 Soph| hook only with pleasure and exacts nothing but his maintenance
667 Intro| motive,’ have acquired an exaggerated importance. Is the manner
668 Intro| order which, with a little exaggeration or disproportion in some
669 Intro| us proceed first to the examination of being. Turning to the
670 Soph| not see that nothing can exceed our ignorance, and yet we
671 Intro| perhaps more uniformity in excellence than in mediocrity. The
672 Soph| with the body.~STRANGER: Excellent; and now listen to what
673 Intro| through all things, being not excepted. And ‘being’ is one thing,
674 Soph| about from city to city exchanging his wares for money?~THEAETETUS:
675 Intro| taught novelties, that they excited the minds of youth, are
676 Intro| actuality before possibility, in excluding from the philosopher’s vocabulary
677 Intro| will at any rate be made an excuse for it. The mind of the
678 Soph| before we came hither, and he excused himself to us, as he does
679 Soph| producing a copy which is executed according to the proportions
680 Intro| subdivisions were favourite logical exercises of the age in which he lived;
681 Intro| youth, and I conjure you to exert yourself, and, if you can,
682 Intro| which the Eleatic philosophy exerted over him. He sees clearly
683 Soph| We are far from having exhausted the more exact thinkers
684 Intro| is called after him, is exhibited in many different lights,
685 Soph| from the truth of facts, by exhibiting to them fictitious arguments,
686 Soph| being, that they are and are existent.~THEAETETUS: So we may assume.~
687 Intro| clothed in circumstance expands into history. (iii) Whether
688 Intro| the infinite worlds in the expanse of heaven can we imagine
689 Intro| upon us however often we expel it. We do not easily believe
690 Intro| arranged in categories and explained by philosophers. And what
691 Soph| strait. Please to begin by explaining this matter to us, and let
692 Intro| exports; and the exporter may export either food for the body
693 Intro| retails or exports; and the exporter may export either food for
694 Intro| Sophist when, instead of exporting his wares to another country,
695 Intro| merchant either retails or exports; and the exporter may export
696 Intro| task; for I know that I am exposing myself to the charge of
697 Intro| needed to swim through it’—expresses the feeling with which the
698 Intro| change, and in the Statesman expressly accuses himself of a tediousness
699 Intro| they have the greatest extension and the least comprehension.
700 Intro| has all this load of logic extinguished in him the feeling of poetry.
701 Intro| acquaintances, whom he criticizes ab extra; we do not recognize at
702 Soph| then being has a centre and extremes, and, having these, must
703 Soph| down in a city, and may fabricate as well as buy these same
704 Soph| recognized by the reasoning faculty to be a distinct class,
705 Intro| Pre-Socratic philosopher failed to distinguish between the
706 Intro| the want of symmetry, or failure in the attainment of a mark
707 Soph| STRANGER: Shall we then be so faint-hearted as to give him up?~THEAETETUS:
708 Soph| THEAETETUS: Nothing can be fairer.~STRANGER: Let me ask you
709 Soph| truly blessed ought to be fairest and purest.~THEAETETUS:
710 Intro| had preceded? The swarm of fallacies which arose in the infancy
711 Intro| say (mala murioi), tell falsehoods and fall into errors. And
712 Soph| led by his art to think falsely, or what do we mean?~THEAETETUS:
713 Intro| Hence the importance of familiarizing the mind with forms which
714 Intro| satire. The language is less fanciful and imaginative than that
715 Soph| to assent to one another, fancying that we are quite clear
716 Soph| the upper part, which is farther off, would appear to be
717 Soph| THEAETETUS: I do after a fashion.~STRANGER: When I introduced
718 Soph| image except as something fashioned in the likeness of the true?~
719 Soph| part to the right, holding fast to that which holds the
720 Intro| defend themselves from a fastness in the invisible world;
721 Intro| irremediable, but we see that it is fatal to the higher life of man.
722 Intro| Many a man has become a fatalist because he has fallen under
723 Intro| continuance, share the same fate. Most ridiculous is the
724 Soph| time-honoured mode which our fathers commonly practised towards
725 Intro| divisions and subdivisions were favourite logical exercises of the
726 Intro| be despised rather than feared, and are no worse than the
727 Soph| arguments, until he suspects and fears that he is ignorant of that
728 Intro| flatter, and in return are fed; others profess to teach
729 Intro| teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (
730 Intro| process. Modern science feels that this, like other processes
731 Intro| appears ‘tumbling out at our feet.’ Acknowledging that there
732 Soph| with such men, and terrible fellows they are.~STRANGER: And
733 Intro| his midwifery, though the fiction of question and answer is
734 Soph| facts, by exhibiting to them fictitious arguments, and making them
735 Intro| rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an
736 Soph| class; and he will still fight to the death against the
737 Intro| alternation of opposites or figured to the mind by the vibrations
738 Intro| more than we are able to fill up, seems to be wanting
739 Intro| abstract principles must be filled up and connected with one
740 Soph| called firing, or spearing by firelight.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
741 Soph| hunters themselves called firing, or spearing by firelight.~
742 Intro| has stood, as he supposed, firmly rooted in the categories
743 Intro| oppression has a natural fitness: he cannot be persuaded,
744 Soph| and now you see in what a fix we are about it.~THEAETETUS:
745 Intro| complete analysis we lose all fixedness. If, for example, the mind
746 Soph| unmeaningness an everlasting fixture?~THEAETETUS: That would
747 Intro| hire; and some of these flatter, and in return are fed;
748 Intro| cousin of the parasite and flatterer. The effect of this is heightened
749 Soph| describe as possessing flattery or an art of making things
750 Soph| altogether displeased if I flinch a little from the grasp
751 Soph| STRANGER: And the Sophist was flitting before us in the acquisitive
752 Intro| serious enquiry, but is floating in the air; the mind has
753 Intro| geological strata which were once fluid and are now solid, which
754 Intro| and water animals either fly over the water or live in
755 Intro| with the spear of logic the follies and self-deceptions of mankind,
756 Intro| him which has not yet been followed out by us. Do not our household
757 Intro| they are described as the followers rather than the leaders
758 Intro| attribute qualities—wisdom, folly, justice and injustice.
759 Soph| soul is wise, and another foolish?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
760 Intro| among men, and detect the foolishness of Athenian wisdom. At any
761 Soph| and shown him more than he forbad us to investigate.~THEAETETUS:
762 Soph| out the argument and yet forbid us to call anything, because
763 Soph| we venture to utter the forbidden word ‘not-being’?~THEAETETUS:
764 Intro| subjected, and not much forcing was required to bring either
765 Intro| old-fashioned moral training of our forefathers, which was very troublesome
766 Intro| illusion; the charlatan, the foreigner, the prince of esprits-faux,
767 Soph| just and unjust, that is forensic controversy.~THEAETETUS:
768 Intro| logic, physic, and ethics, foreshadowed in Plato, was finally established
769 Soph| attracts you, I will not forestall the work of time. Let me
770 Intro| which we wear are of our own forging. To be able to place ourselves
771 Soph| STRANGER: Will you then forgive me, and, as your words imply,
772 Intro| communion of kinds. And we are fortunate in having established such
773 Intro| foreigners, that they made fortunes, that they taught novelties,
774 Intro| poets, the five greatest founders or teachers of a religion,
775 Soph| Then, now, there are in all four parts or segments—two of
776 Soph| THEAETETUS: Certainly.~STRANGER: Fowling is the general term under
777 Intro| there are always appearing ‘fragments of the great banquet’ of
778 Intro| imagine how this universal frame may be animated by a divine
779 Intro| Though many a thinker has framed a ‘hierarchy of the sciences,’
780 Intro| antagonism, further assists us in framing a scheme or system of the
781 Intro| he is in the midst of a fray; a huge irregular battle
782 Intro| controversy of necessity and free-will, or the Eleatic puzzle of
783 Intro| truth.~The system of Hegel frees the mind from the dominion
784 Intro| language of Aristotle, in the frequent use of the words ‘essence,’ ‘
785 Soph| STRANGER: Yes, and with a fresh pedigree, for he is the
786 Intro| called, A = A, does not fulfil what its form requires.
787 Intro| very far from being the fulfilment of their higher natures.
788 Intro| is pressed to give this fuller explanation, either in the
789 Soph| Every way like unto the fullness of a well-rounded sphere,
790 Intro| still allow us to retain the fundamental distinctions of philosophy.~
791 Intro| an sich seyn,’ ‘an und fur sich seyn,’ though the simplest
792 Soph| the arts of fulling and of furbishing in general attend in a number
793 Intro| of the former class are furnished by some ecclesiastical terms:
794 Soph| formed within the earth, fusile or non-fusile, shall we
795 Intro| learn by experience the futility of his pretensions. The
796 Soph| now, do we seem to have gained a fair notion of being?~
797 Intro| appeared at the Olympic games. The man of genius, the
798 Soph| one another? Or shall we gather all into one class of things
799 Intro| again and again that we are gathering up the world in ideas, we
800 Intro| described as Spirit or ‘Geist,’ is really impersonal.
801 Intro| proposition, of definition, of generalization, of synthesis and analysis,
802 Intro| universal, which successive generations of philosophers had recently
803 Intro| distinguished. Sometimes the generic meaning has been narrowed
804 Soph| with himself, and grows gentle towards others, and thus
805 Intro| thought to the deposits of geological strata which were once fluid
806 Intro| by an ‘interval which no geometry can express,’ from the balancer
807 Intro| difficulty in separating the germ from the flower, or in drawing
808 Soph| must be called by some name germane to the matter?~THEAETETUS:
809 Intro| as we might expect, the germs of many thoughts which have
810 Soph| sort of instruction which gets rid of this?~THEAETETUS:
811 Intro| this he certainly laid the ghost of ‘Not-being’; and we may
812 Soph| continually miss their aim and glance aside, shall we say that
813 Intro| loses hold of facts. The glass which is adapted to distant
814 Intro| themselves. Here again we catch a glimpse rather of a Socratic or
815 Intro| That in Hegel he finds glimpses of the genius of the poet
816 Intro| countryman of his contemporaries Goethe and Schiller. Many fine
817 Intro| Plato, Tim.), or with ‘a golden pair of compasses’ measures
818 Soph| enquiry we have long said good-bye—it may or may not be, and
819 Intro| said to a niece of King Gorboduc, “That that is is”...for
820 Intro| the course of events is governed by the will of God. Throughout
821 Intro| But the equably diffused grace is gone; instead of the
822 Intro| language, may be termed a ‘most gracious aid to thought.’~The doctrine
823 Intro| or thought that he saw a gradual revelation of the Divine
824 Soph| THEAETETUS: The art of grammar.~STRANGER: And is not this
825 Intro| separated are known to the grammarian and musician. And there
826 Intro| sentence in form quite as grammatical as ‘Theaetetus is sitting’;
827 Soph| learned imitation.~THEAETETUS: Granted.~STRANGER: The former is
828 Soph| making appearances, he will grapple with us and retort our argument
829 Intro| earth-born giants, ‘who grasped oaks and rocks in their
830 Intro| like that of the giants, grasping rocks and oaks in their
831 Intro| compare Republic), involves grave results to the mind and
832 Intro| supply the want which the Greeks began to feel at the beginning
833 Intro| not Materialists in the grosser sense of the term, nor were
834 Intro| affinity with Theaetetus, grounded on the likeness of his ugly
835 Soph| that we may have clearer grounds for determining, whether
836 Intro| Socrates. He seems to be always growing in the fancy of Plato, now
837 Intro| of general notions will guide men into all truth.~Plato
838 Soph| age, and my partner at the gymnasium, and is constantly accustomed
839 Soph| divides ignorance into two halves. For a division of ignorance
840 Soph| imagine, not the teaching of handicraft arts, but what, thanks to
841 Soph| which can be touched or handled have being or essence, because
842 Soph| magicians, you see that the handles for objection and the difficulties
843 Soph| task.~THEODORUS: You have happened to light, Socrates, almost
844 Soph| all things.~THEAETETUS: Happy would mankind be if such
845 Soph| there is the dissembler, who harangues a multitude in public in
846 Intro| rhetorician or lawyer, now haranguing, now questioning, until
847 Intro| words contrasts with the hardness of their meaning. Secondly,
848 Intro| great good or any great harm. Even if it were a thousand
849 Intro| science which arrays them in harmonious order, giving to the organic
850 Intro| are too rough-hewn to be harmonized in a single structure, and
851 Soph| from great prejudices and harsh notions, in a way which
852 Soph| assenting into giving a hasty answer?~THEAETETUS: May
853 Intro| and severed by love and hate, some maintaining that this
854 Intro| different—the world as the hater of truth and lover of appearance,
855 Intro| of the man whom his soul hates—~os chi eteron men keuthe
856 Soph| wares of the soul which are hawked about either for the sake
857 Soph| contradicting ourselves when we hazard the assertion, that falsehood
858 Soph| which is most amusing to the hearer, and produces the most lasting
859 Soph| possible to enchant the hearts of young men by words poured
860 Intro| nothing light which is not heavy, or great which is not small.’
861 Soph| You follow close at my heels, Theaetetus. For the right
862 Intro| accident of our being the heirs of the Greek philosophers
863 Intro| Cratylus, he is opposed to the Heracleitean flux and equally to the
864 Intro| thinking, and, like the Heracliteans of old, have no words in
865 Intro| Clown: For as the old hermit of Prague, that never saw
866 Soph| further distinguished as a hero of debate, who professed
867 Intro| Passages may be quoted from Herodotus and the tragedians, in which
868 Soph| and therefore now, without hesitation, we shall number the different
869 Soph| of it are too minute and heterogeneous.~STRANGER: But that which
870 Intro| a thinker has framed a ‘hierarchy of the sciences,’ no one
871 Intro| meaning, like that of some hieroglyphic, would have remained undeciphered,
872 Intro| that he is a disputant, and higgles over an argument. A feature
873 Intro| Gorgias, Protagoras, Prodicus, Hippias, were good and honourable
874 Intro| and the words of the young Hippocrates, when with a blush upon
875 Intro| defender in the distinguished historian of Greece. He appears to
876 Soph| our friend before we came hither, and he excused himself
877 Soph| holding fast to that which holds the Sophist, until we have
878 Intro| wares are either imported or home-made, like those of other retail
879 Soph| having this in view, she honours them all alike, and when
880 Intro| in order to damage the ‘hooker of men’ as much as possible;
881 Intro| thinker like Hegel could have hoped to revive or supplant the
882 Intro| in fact most entirely and hopelessly enslaved by them: ‘Die reinen
883 Intro| followed out by us. Do not our household servants talk of sifting,
884 Soph| ignorance of men, and they ‘hover about cities,’ as Homer
885 Intro| in the midst of a fray; a huge irregular battle everywhere
886 Intro| overthrown Locke, Kant, Hume, and the so-called philosophy
887 Intro| and has several touches of humour and satire. The language
888 Intro| reasoned with; and the equally humourous delineation of the friends
889 Intro| place in the world of a hundred years hence. But all higher
890 Soph| making’? He cannot be a husbandman;— for you said that he is
891 Intro| productive art, which includes husbandry, manufactures, imitations;
892 Intro| detect in him a sort of hybrid or double nature, of which,
893 Intro| world. We must admit this hypothetical element, which we cannot
894 Intro| tendency of the Cynics.~The Idealism of the fourth century before
895 Intro| reaction. They are both idealists, although to the one the
896 Soph| STRANGER: And yet he who identifies the name with the thing
897 Intro| philosophy, and still less in identifying both with the divine idea
898 Intro| character by the use of idiomatic German words. But it may
899 Soph| such thing as an image or idol or appearance, because in
900 Soph| illusion, and that his art is illusory, do we mean that our soul
901 Intro| his system easier (a) by illustrations, and (b) by pointing out
902 Soph| the company as Socrates imagines?~STRANGER: You hear them
903 Intro| of falsehood was really impaired and weakened by a metaphysical
904 Soph| argufiers, and are able to impart their own skill to others.~
905 Intro| stamped the word anew, or have imparted the associations which occur
906 Intro| great dislike and childish impatience of his system which would
907 Intro| longer any metaphysical impediment in the way of admitting
908 Intro| of false opinion seemed impenetrable; for we were unable to understand
909 Intro| the air; the mind has been imperceptibly informed of some of the
910 Intro| walls. There are many such imperfect syncretisms or eclecticisms
911 Intro| speak of it as due to the imperfection of language or the limitation
912 Intro| Spirit or ‘Geist,’ is really impersonal. The minds of men are to
913 Intro| himself. He is the imaginary impersonation of false opinion. Yet he
914 Intro| help of instruments and impersonations. And the latter may be either
915 Intro| company from the vain and impertinent talker in private life,
916 Intro| which have always existed implicitly and unconsciously, and to
917 Intro| Aristotle, all give a bad import to the word; and the Sophists
918 Intro| and his wares are either imported or home-made, like those
919 Intro| of the style, retain the impress of the great master of language.
920 Intro| that the bad sense was imprinted on the word by the genius
921 Soph| exists; and therein we will imprison the Sophist, if he deserves
922 Intro| feeling. There is nothing improbable in supposing that Plato
923 Soph| Let us, if we can, really improve them; but if this is not
924 Intro| purification, is unclean and impure.~And who are the ministers
925 Soph| you to fear that I shall impute any impropriety to you,
926 Soph| expression of action or inaction, or of the existence of
927 Intro| formal logic, presents a very inadequate conception of the actual
928 Intro| deviser or inventor, without including any ethical idea of goodness
929 Intro| and all other things, are incommunicable with one another? or (2)
930 Intro| which Anaxagoras employed inconsistently in the construction of the
931 Intro| true meaning when they are incorporated in a principle which is
932 Intro| other numbers without any increase or diminution (Theat.).
933 Intro| metaphysical interest of them increases (compare Introd. to the
934 Soph| his life he continued to inculcate the same lesson—always repeating
935 Intro| condition of the world may be indefinitely improved by human effort.
936 Intro| Schicksalslosigkeit’ or independence of the destiny of his race?
937 Intro| methods and are pursued independently of one another. But to the
938 Intro| between them. Nor is there any indication that the deficiency which
939 Intro| nation should be a matter of indifference to the poet or philosopher.
940 Intro| would have been applied indifferently to Socrates and Plato, as
941 Intro| or (2) that they all have indiscriminate communion? or (3) that there
942 Intro| these latter schools is indistinct; and he appears reluctant
943 Intro| philosopher’ became almost indistinguishable. There was no reproach conveyed
944 Intro| prevent the force of their individuality breaking through the uniformity
945 Soph| things, whether regarded individually or collectively, in many
946 Soph| will understand him, and no indolence shall prevent us. Let us
947 Intro| seem the expression of an indolent conservatism, and will at
948 Soph| hunt in addition to other inducements.~THEAETETUS: Most true.~
949 Intro| described, and the processes of induction and deduction are constantly
950 Intro| qualitative, quantitative, inductive, mechanical, teleological,—
951 Intro| which he lived; and while indulging his dialectical fancy, and
952 Intro| Being’ and ‘Not-being’ are inextricably blended.~Plato restricts
953 Soph| which is acknowledged by inferior men. Moreover we are no
954 Intro| Statesman, we arrive at the infima species; thirdly, in the
955 Intro| inclined to deny the truth of infinitesimals in mathematics. Many difficulties
956 Intro| the method of ‘abscissio infinti,’ by which the Sophist is
957 Intro| truly said to be the most inflated with a false meaning. They
958 Intro| mind has been imperceptibly informed of some of the methods required
959 Intro| the understanding, however ingeniously arranged or displayed, are
960 Soph| enemy, as the saying is, inhabits the same house with them;
961 Intro| obscure: and the difficulty inherent in the subject is increased
962 Intro| the angler suggests some injurious reflection about the Sophist.
963 Intro| that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a
964 Soph| STRANGER: And there will be innumerable other points, each of them
965 Intro| giving to the organic and inorganic, to the physical and moral,
966 Soph| verily he is a wonderful and inscrutable creature. And now in the
967 Intro| writings without acquiring an insight into life. He loves to touch
968 Soph| STRANGER: And where there is insolence and injustice and cowardice,
969 Intro| mathematics and of morals will be insoluble puzzles to us.~The influence
970 Intro| of circumstances or not, inspires others quite as much as
971 Intro| his adoption of a common instance before he proceeds to the
972 Soph| admission everything is instantly overturned, as well the
973 Intro| mediocrity. The sublimer intelligences of mankind—Plato, Dante,
974 Soph| ought to consider cowardice, intemperance, and injustice to be alike
975 Intro| abstract notions, and in no way interferes with the principle of contradiction
976 Intro| without passing through the intermediate stages; 5. they refuse to
977 Soph| yet always of necessity intermingling with them, and are we to
978 Soph| their views, and do you interpret them.~THEAETETUS: Agreed.~
979 Intro| deny that he has sometimes interpreted physics by metaphysics,
980 Intro| convinced that without any interruption of the uniformity of nature
981 Intro| Timaeus, Plato seems to intimate by the withdrawal of Socrates
982 Intro| them increases (compare Introd. to the Philebus). There
983 Soph| a right manner, without introducing into it either existence
984 Intro| INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS~The dramatic
985 Intro| direct allusion (compare Introductions to Theaetetus and Parmenides).
986 Intro| hardly be matter of immediate intuition. Neither can we appreciate
987 Soph| of Sophists which we are investigating is not easily caught or
988 Intro| the moment we analyze them involve a contradiction, such as ‘
989 Intro| Pherecydes and the early Ionians. In the philosophy of motion
990 Soph| is sound, like a piece of iron, or whether there is still
991 Soph| other as the dissembling or ironical imitator?~THEAETETUS: Very
992 Intro| them only in mockery or irony.~The term ‘Sophist’ is one
993 Intro| ever-growing idea of mind is really irreconcilable with the abstract Pantheism
994 Intro| us under evils which are irremediable, but we see that it is fatal
995 Intro| which follows—impelled by an irresistible necessity from one idea
996 Soph| is thought about them in Italy, and to whom the terms are
997 Intro| The ordinary logic is also jealous of the explanation of negation
998 Intro| above, the barbed hooks are jerked into the head and lips of
999 Intro| would often anticipate the jests which the rest of the world, ‘
1000 Intro| the opposite of that of Jesuitism or casuistry (Wallace).