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1001 Intro| common sense of mankind joins one of two parties in politics,
1002 Intro| The double notions are the joints which hold them together.
1003 Intro| writings. For Plato is not justifying the Sophists in the passage
1004 Intro| hates—~os chi eteron men keuthe eni phresin, allo de eipe.~
1005 Intro| Sophist and all his kith and kin, and to exhibit him in the
1006 Soph| present company will respond kindly to you, and you can choose
1007 Intro| the Sophist and all his kith and kin, and to exhibit
1008 Soph| form; and again, one form knit together into a single whole
1009 Soph| fancies; the other sort has knocked about among arguments, until
1010 Intro| the universe (Milton, P.L.). We can understand how
1011 Intro| his true character by a labourious process of enquiry, when
1012 Soph| to the rivers and to the lakes, and angling for the animals
1013 Soph| said to have two divisions, land-animal hunting, which has many
1014 Soph| susceptible of definition as any larger thing? Shall I say an angler?
1015 Soph| hearer, and produces the most lasting good effect on the person
1016 Intro| of thought (ou and me). Lastly, there are certain ideas,
1017 Intro| thinker they are all one—latent in one another—developed
1018 Intro| Ages was the vernacular Latin of priests and students.
1019 Soph| though he had eyes, he will laugh you to scorn, and will pretend
1020 Soph| STRANGER: I mean that they lavish gifts on those whom they
1021 Intro| of deception, and in his lawyer-like habit of writing and speaking
1022 Intro| many heads: rhetoricians, lawyers, statesmen, poets, sophists.
1023 Intro| may liken the successive layers of thought to the deposits
1024 Soph| discuss the chief captain and leader of them.~THEAETETUS: Of
1025 Intro| followers rather than the leaders of the rest of mankind.
1026 Soph| say that the habit which leads a man to neglect his own
1027 Intro| nothingness. For, like Plato, he ‘leaves no stone unturned’ in the
1028 Intro| Take away the five greatest legislators, the five greatest warriors,
1029 Intro| speaks of the ‘ground’ of Leibnitz (‘Everything has a sufficient
1030 Soph| continued to inculcate the same lesson—always repeating both in
1031 Soph| which I have already spoken;—letting alone these puzzles as involving
1032 Intro| principle and with this lever moves mankind. Few attain
1033 Soph| have reverence, and not be liable to accusations so serious.
1034 Intro| deprived of the character of a liberal profession. But the most
1035 Intro| require order as well as liberty, and have to consider the
1036 Intro| there was no original voice lifted up ‘which reached to a thousand
1037 Soph| it? By Zeus, have we not lighted unwittingly upon our free
1038 Intro| patience and minuteness. He has lightened the burden of thought because
1039 Intro| Germany, and also in the lighter literature of both countries,
1040 Intro| begin at the beginning.~Lightly in the days of our youth,
1041 Intro| exhibited in many different lights, and appears and reappears
1042 Intro| and Algebra. Again, we may liken the successive layers of
1043 Intro| Parmenides; or, once more, the likening of the Eleatic stranger
1044 Intro| dialectician will carve the limbs of truth without mangling
1045 Intro| progress which passes from one limit or determination of thought
1046 Intro| imperfection of language or the limitation of human faculties. It is
1047 Soph| to be of this blood and lineage will say the very truth.~
1048 Intro| every other, yet they are linked together, each with all,
1049 Soph| STRANGER: Excellent; and now listen to what I am going to say,
1050 Soph| unseen to earth, and they literally grasp in their hands rocks
1051 Soph| not-being of not-being, and lo! here is another; for we
1052 Soph| been said, that he is to be located in one of the divisions
1053 Intro| to a little distance and looks back upon what he has learnt,
1054 Soph| hearers, may be fairly termed loquacity: such is my opinion.~THEAETETUS:
1055 Soph| over to reason, who is the lord of the hunt, and proclaim
1056 Intro| in private life, who is a loser of money, while he is a
1057 Intro| among abstractions, and loses hold of facts. The glass
1058 Intro| confusing cause and effect—to be losing the distinction between
1059 Intro| as the hater of truth and lover of appearance, occupied
1060 Intro| an insight into life. He loves to touch with the spear
1061 Soph| true of sounds high and low?—Is not he who has the art
1062 Soph| preceded, that the Sophist was lurking in one of the divisions
1063 Intro| mediate and immediate. As Luther’s Bible was written in the
1064 Intro| world is a vast system or machine which can be conceived under
1065 Soph| expect that you will deem me mad, when you hear of my sudden
1066 Soph| Sophist is not visibly a magician and imitator of true being;
1067 Intro| East; the north pole of the magnet cannot be divided from the
1068 Soph| him colours and forms and magnitudes and virtues and vices, in
1069 Soph| Parmenides, and try to prove by main force that in a certain
1070 Intro| contradiction is the life and mainspring of the intellectual world
1071 Intro| philosophy in general than of a maintainer of particular tenets.~But
1072 Intro| towards Materialism. The maintainers of this doctrine are described
1073 Intro| in popular phraseology, maintains not matter but mind to be
1074 Soph| and exacts nothing but his maintenance in return, we should all,
1075 Soph| from being agreeable to the majority of his hearers, may be fairly
1076 Intro| thousands, as Homer would say (mala murioi), tell falsehoods
1077 Intro| persuasion;—either by the pirate, man-stealer, soldier, or by the lawyer,
1078 Soph| STRANGER: Let us define piracy, man-stealing, tyranny, the whole military
1079 Intro| the limbs of truth without mangling them; and once more in the
1080 Soph| attribute unity?~THEAETETUS: Manifestly.~STRANGER: Nevertheless,
1081 Intro| professor of morals and manners.~2. The use of the term ‘
1082 Soph| fourth place, he himself manufactured the learned wares which
1083 Intro| mathematics, so neither can the many-sidedness of the mental and moral
1084 Soph| general and painting and marionette playing and many other things,
1085 Intro| differing by so many outward marks, would really have been
1086 Intro| marrying and being given in marriage: in speaking of these, he
1087 Soph| was peace, and they were married and begat children, and
1088 Soph| and a cold, and made them marry and cohabit. The Eleatics,
1089 Intro| No one else has equally mastered the opinions of his predecessors
1090 Intro| yet attained a complete mastery over the ideas of his predecessors—
1091 Intro| which was at first simply a material element, the most equable
1092 Intro| provoked a reaction towards Materialism. The maintainers of this
1093 Intro| of soldiers and statesmen materially quicken the ‘process of
1094 Soph| understood quite well what was meant by the term ‘not-being,’
1095 | Meanwhile
1096 Intro| golden pair of compasses’ measures out the circumference of
1097 Intro| human faculties; the art of measuring shows us what is truly great
1098 Soph| merchant as he who sells meats and drinks?~THEAETETUS:
1099 Intro| higher unity: the ordinary mechanism of language and logic is
1100 Intro| uniformity in excellence than in mediocrity. The sublimer intelligences
1101 Soph| strangers, are companions of the meek and just, and visit the
1102 Soph| bright and smooth objects meets on their surface with an
1103 Intro| the schools of Elea and Megara. He had much in common with
1104 Intro| has preserved an anonymous memorial.~V. The Sophist is the sequel
1105 Soph| aware that there are certain menial occupations which have names
1106 Intro| attaching to it (Symp.; Meno). In the later Greek, again, ‘
1107 Soph| those which we were just now mentioning—being and rest and motion.~
1108 Soph| subdivisions of hunting, contests, merchandize, and the like.~THEAETETUS:
1109 Intro| classes at all, but are merged in one great class of the
1110 Intro| if we may speak in the metaphorical language of Plato, became
1111 Intro| highest being or thought. Metaphysic is the negation or absorption
1112 Intro| the latter days. The great metaphysician, like a prophet of old,
1113 Intro| own mind, like that of all metaphysicians, was too much under the
1114 Intro| Socrates, who appeared like meteors for a short time in different
1115 Soph| STRANGER: Alas, Theaetetus, methinks that we are now only beginning
1116 Intro| recognizes that he is in the midst of a fray; a huge irregular
1117 Intro| to the operation of his midwifery, though the fiction of question
1118 Soph| out of an unseen world, mightily contending that true essence
1119 Intro| they still live and are mighty; in the language of the
1120 Intro| mankind is reflected.~A milder tone is adopted towards
1121 Soph| man-stealing, tyranny, the whole military art, by one name, as hunting
1122 Intro| circumference of the universe (Milton, P.L.). We can understand
1123 Soph| then, be named the art of mimicry, and this the province assigned
1124 Soph| the class of magicians and mimics.~THEAETETUS: Certainly we
1125 Soph| without any argument of mine, to that belief which, as
1126 Soph| sounds, until verbs are mingled with nouns; then the words
1127 Soph| becoming, or again of heat mingling with cold, assuming in some
1128 Soph| certain likeness to our minister of purification.~STRANGER:
1129 Intro| with equal patience and minuteness. He has lightened the burden
1130 Intro| of their opponents to the minutest fractions, until they are
1131 Intro| charmed circle is in the mire of ignorance and ‘logical
1132 Intro| evil. But when he sees the misery and ignorance of mankind
1133 | miss
1134 Soph| understand you, when we entirely misunderstand you.’ There will be no impropriety
1135 Intro| may not be involved in the misunderstanding, let us observe which of
1136 Intro| be scarcely said to have mixed much in the affairs of men,
1137 Soph| their works separations and mixtures,—tell me, Theaetetus, do
1138 Intro| applies it to them only in mockery or irony.~The term ‘Sophist’
1139 Soph| and from refutation learns modesty; he must be purged of his
1140 Intro| unless the ‘not’ is a mere modification of the positive, as in the
1141 Intro| one-sided, and only when modified by other abstractions do
1142 Soph| pedigree, for he is the money-making species of the Eristic,
1143 Intro| traces of the rhythmical monotonous cadence of the Laws begin
1144 Intro| tendency to lose sight of morality, to separate goodness from
1145 | mostly
1146 Intro| individual,’ ‘cause,’ ‘motive,’ have acquired an exaggerated
1147 Soph| the art of constructing or moulding vessels, and there is the
1148 Intro| will rest, and rest will move; here is a reductio ad absurdum.
1149 Soph| motion, and that which is moved.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
1150 Intro| once and in adjusting their movements to one another. There is
1151 Soph| be something wrong? The multiplicity of names which is applied
1152 Intro| through their ears, by the mummery of words, and induce them
1153 Intro| as Homer would say (mala murioi), tell falsehoods and fall
1154 Soph| the sophistical art such a mysterious power?~THEAETETUS: To what
1155 Intro| under another aspect is the mysticism of the Symposium. He does
1156 Intro| philosophy in the older German mystics. And though he can be scarcely
1157 Soph| of an abstract something naked and isolated from all being
1158 Intro| the conquest of Prussia by Napoleon I. was either natural or
1159 Intro| that no philosophy of a narrower type is capable of comprehending
1160 Intro| similar calamity befalling a nation should be a matter of indifference
1161 Intro| witness against them. Of that national decline of genius, unity,
1162 Soph| on every side, And must needs be neither greater nor less
1163 Intro| that they must alike be negatived before we arrive at a true
1164 Soph| habit which leads a man to neglect his own affairs for the
1165 Intro| of quarrelling with his neighbours, and is cured of prejudices
1166 Soph| refutation, but is clearly the new-born babe of some one who is
1167 Soph| ashamed, Socrates, being a new-comer into your society, instead
1168 Intro| very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, “That
1169 Intro| of the eighteenth for the nineteenth, and most of us would be
1170 Soph| your authority.~STRANGER: Nobly said, Theaetetus, and if
1171 | nobody
1172 Intro| at a particular time.~The nomenclature of Hegel has been made by
1173 Intro| Megarians are said to have been Nominalists, asserting the One Good
1174 Soph| other than being, and so non-existent; and therefore of all of
1175 Soph| within the earth, fusile or non-fusile, shall we say that they
1176 Soph| language and opinion are of the non-partaking class; and he will still
1177 Soph| continuous, would be talking nonsense in all this if there were
1178 Soph| twig baskets, casting-nets, nooses, creels, and the like may
1179 Intro| way also to the East; the north pole of the magnet cannot
1180 Intro| combining the I and the not-I, or the subject and object,
1181 Intro| And the real ‘is,’ and the not-real ‘is not’? ‘Yes.’ Then a
1182 Intro| resolves into their original nothingness. For, like Plato, he ‘leaves
1183 Soph| several ways disdaining to notice people like ourselves; they
1184 Intro| of the Sophist. The most noticeable point is the final retirement
1185 Intro| which has been already noticed, we cannot be much surprised
1186 Intro| patient will receive no nourishment unless he has been cleaned
1187 Intro| fortunes, that they taught novelties, that they excited the minds
1188 Soph| also as good, and having numberless other attributes, and in
1189 Intro| Die reinen Physiker sind nur die Thiere.’ The disciple
1190 Soph| STRANGER: I am far from objecting, Theodorus, nor have I any
1191 Intro| great many distinctions, he obliterates a great many others by the
1192 Intro| Methodists) is adopted by the obnoxious or derided class; this tends
1193 Intro| Sophist runs away into the obscurity of not-being, the philosopher
1194 Intro| classes of Not-being. It is observable that he does not absolutely
1195 Soph| are alike included; and, observing that they both participate
1196 Intro| form,’ either have become obsolete, or are used in new senses,
1197 Soph| food until the internal obstacles have been removed, so the
1198 Intro| described in the Theaetetus as obstinate persons who will believe
1199 Intro| cured of prejudices and obstructions by a mode of treatment which
1200 Soph| who cleared away notions obstructive to knowledge.~THEAETETUS:
1201 Intro| philosophy. This dearly obtained freedom, however, we are
1202 Soph| generally called vice, and is obviously a disease of the soul...~
1203 Soph| not merely made up for the occasion, appear in various forms
1204 Intro| understanding offers to us, and if occasionally we come across difficulties
1205 Soph| left out.~STRANGER: But oh! my dear youth, do you suppose
1206 Intro| also twofold: there is the old-fashioned moral training of our forefathers,
1207 Intro| Athens, or appeared at the Olympic games. The man of genius,
1208 Soph| other small matters, may be omitted; the hunting after living
1209 Intro| the Eristic; while in his omniscience, in his ignorance of himself,
1210 Intro| impurity’: he who is within is omniscient, or at least has all the
1211 Soph| about the assertors of the oneness of the all—must we not endeavour
1212 Intro| separates phainomena from onta.~Having in view some of
1213 Intro| objects of sense must lead us onward to the ideas or universals
1214 Intro| dialectic is always moving onwards from one determination of
1215 Intro| that the worst tyranny and oppression has a natural fitness: he
1216 Intro| reasons to account for the opprobrium which attached to them.
1217 Soph| accustomed to make a long oration on a subject which you want
1218 Intro| Socrates by making long orations. In this character he parts
1219 Soph| to seize him according to orders and deliver him over to
1220 Intro| infinite and absolute as ordinarily understood are tiresome
1221 Intro| ideas. We acknowledge his originality, and some of us delight
1222 Soph| dissolution of kindred elements, originating in some disagreement?~THEAETETUS:
1223 Intro| man whom his soul hates—~os chi eteron men keuthe eni
1224 Intro| any more than Sameness or Otherness is one of the classes of
1225 Intro| philosophia prima,’ the science of ousia, logic or metaphysics, philosophers
1226 Intro| fair or unfair against the outlaw Sophist.~III. The puzzle
1227 Intro| reasoning impossible by their over-accuracy in the use of language;
1228 Intro| in accordance with their over-refining philosophy. The ‘tyros young
1229 Soph| argument; for if I am to be over-scrupulous, I shall have to give the
1230 Intro| his age which he cannot overcome. He may be out of harmony
1231 Intro| to rocks which project or overhang in some ancient city’s walls.
1232 Intro| hardly be denied that he has overthrown Locke, Kant, Hume, and the
1233 Intro| of the universe (Milton, P.L.). We can understand how
1234 Soph| I must, if I am to keep pace with the argument.~STRANGER:
1235 Intro| within the compass of a few pages to give even a faint outline
1236 Intro| the older philosophies are painted (‘Ionian and Sicilian muses’),
1237 Intro| Tim.), or with ‘a golden pair of compasses’ measures out
1238 Soph| are also twofold and go in pairs; there is the thing, with
1239 Intro| species; secondly, in the parallel precept of the Philebus,
1240 Intro| Sophist is the cousin of the parasite and flatterer. The effect
1241 Intro| Wisdom of this sort is well parodied in Shakespeare (Twelfth
1242 Soph| that any, even the smallest particle of being, is incorporeal,
1243 Soph| STRANGER: The negative particles, ou and me, when prefixed
1244 Intro| mankind joins one of two parties in politics, in religion,
1245 Soph| motion in any point of view partook of rest, there would be
1246 Soph| STRANGER: Let us ask each party in turn, to give an account
1247 Intro| disservice with posterity which Pascal did to the Jesuits. But
1248 Intro| motion,’ ‘rest,’ ‘action,’ ‘passion,’ and the like.~The Sophist,
1249 Intro| the human mind with equal patience and minuteness. He has lightened
1250 Intro| for it. The mind of the patriot rebels when he is told that
1251 Soph| Of what are they to be patterns, and what are we going to
1252 Intro| of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said
1253 Soph| the present enquiry, if peradventure we may be allowed to assert
1254 Soph| where shall I begin the perilous enterprise? I think that
1255 Intro| abstractions. In the intervening period hardly any importance would
1256 Intro| and then all his thoughts perish; his genius passes away
1257 Intro| Eleatic thinks likely to be permanent, that the course of events
1258 Soph| and still remains a very perplexing question. Can any one say
1259 Soph| there still remains of all perplexities the first and greatest,
1260 Soph| about the Sophist; for if we persist in looking for him in the
1261 Intro| the world rather than the personalities which conceived them? The
1262 Intro| of philosophy stripped of personality and of the other accidents
1263 Intro| philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is
1264 Intro| natural fitness: he cannot be persuaded, for example, that the conquest
1265 Intro| the reader rises from the perusal of Hegel. We may truly apply
1266 Soph| process of understanding is perverted?~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
1267 Intro| them there as elsewhere (Phaedr., Crat., Republic, States.)
1268 Intro| the gulf which separates phainomena from onta.~Having in view
1269 Soph| thinking, and imagination or phantasy is the union of sense and
1270 Intro| attempt to pursue such airy phantoms at all, the Hegelian identity
1271 Intro| or represent some unknown phase of opinion at Athens. To
1272 Intro| is probably referring to Pherecydes and the early Ionians. In
1273 Intro| the days of Comparative Philology or of Comparative Mythology
1274 Intro| science, whether described as ‘philosophia prima,’ the science of ousia,
1275 Intro| chi eteron men keuthe eni phresin, allo de eipe.~For their
1276 Intro| threefold division of logic, physic, and ethics, foreshadowed
1277 Intro| Antisthenes wrote a book called ‘Physicus,’ is hardly a sufficient
1278 Intro| enslaved by them: ‘Die reinen Physiker sind nur die Thiere.’ The
1279 Intro| from presentations, that is pictorial forms of sense, to representations
1280 Soph| STRANGER: Let us define piracy, man-stealing, tyranny,
1281 Intro| persuasion;—either by the pirate, man-stealer, soldier, or
1282 Intro| notes of a higher and lower pitch which disagreed once, but
1283 Soph| THEAETETUS: Nothing can be plainer.~STRANGER: Then not-being
1284 Soph| to them, ‘the answer is plainly that the two will still
1285 Soph| and all the animals and plants, at things which grow upon
1286 Soph| painting and marionette playing and many other things, which
1287 Soph| an art of making things pleasant.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
1288 Soph| another when he responds pleasantly, and is light in hand; if
1289 Intro| the growth of ‘what we are pleased to call our minds,’ by reverting
1290 Soph| hireling whose conversation is pleasing and who baits his hook only
1291 Intro| the greater names, such as Plotinus, and would have been more
1292 Intro| and Statesman, but we are plunged at once into philosophical
1293 Soph| of the dualists or of the pluralists?~THEAETETUS: Certainly not.~
1294 Intro| two minus signs make a plus in Arithmetic and Algebra.
1295 Intro| system is not cast in a poetic form, but neither has all
1296 Intro| transcendent, as Hegel himself has pointed out (Wallace’s Hegel). The
1297 Intro| ideas,’ who carry on the polemic against sense, is uncertain;
1298 Intro| becoming,’ or to the opposite poles, as they are sometimes termed,
1299 Intro| decline of genius, unity, political force, which has been sometimes
1300 Intro| final appearance in the Politicus of his departing shadow
1301 Intro| and continuousness. We may ponder over the thought of number,
1302 Intro| Being. Yet they are the poorest of the predicates under
1303 Intro| England and Scotland when his popularity in Germany has departed,
1304 Soph| owing to the unfavourable position of the spectator, whereas
1305 Soph| be, that anything which possesses any sort of power to affect
1306 Soph| not mistaken, describe as possessing flattery or an art of making
1307 Intro| abstractions, and above imaginary possibilities, which, as he truly says,
1308 Intro| distinction of a priori and a posteriori truth. It also acknowledges
1309 Intro| kind of disservice with posterity which Pascal did to the
1310 Intro| immanent,—to the other only potential and transcendent, as Hegel
1311 Soph| hearts of young men by words poured through their ears, when
1312 Soph| should recommend that we practise beforehand the method which
1313 Intro| or public. Of the private practitioners of the art, some bring gifts
1314 Intro| For as the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and
1315 Intro| attributed to him in the preceding dialogue. He is no longer
1316 Intro| secondly, in the parallel precept of the Philebus, that we
1317 Soph| you are referring to the precepts of Protagoras about wrestling
1318 Intro| not attempting to draw a precise line between them.~Of these
1319 Intro| they are the poorest of the predicates under which we describe
1320 Soph| example—unless you have a preference for some one else.~STRANGER:
1321 Intro| conform. Hegel is right in preferring the concrete to the abstract,
1322 Intro| question and answer. He prefers the latter, and chooses
1323 Soph| particles, ou and me, when prefixed to words, do not imply opposition,
1324 Intro| of which is described by prefixing the word ‘not’ to some kind
1325 Intro| these will furnish the best preparation and give the right attitude
1326 Soph| assign to them too high a prerogative.~THEAETETUS: Yet the Sophist
1327 Intro| like, (2) ascending from presentations, that is pictorial forms
1328 Intro| would be the difficulty of presenting philosophy to mankind under
1329 Soph| throws away the worse and preserves the better, I do know a
1330 Intro| fully would take time. He is pressed to give this fuller explanation,
1331 Soph| the nature of discourse presses upon us at this moment;
1332 Soph| laugh you to scorn, and will pretend that he knows nothing of
1333 Soph| but only as the greater pretender of the two. And as to your
1334 Intro| experience the futility of his pretensions. The Sophist, then, has
1335 Soph| peace and unity sometimes prevailing under the sway of Aphrodite,
1336 Soph| confusion of ideas, which prevented them from attempting to
1337 Soph| conquering by word or deed, or in preventing others from conquering,
1338 Intro| the vernacular Latin of priests and students. The higher
1339 Intro| described as ‘philosophia prima,’ the science of ousia,
1340 Intro| we look far away into the primeval sources of thought and belief,
1341 Intro| charlatan, the foreigner, the prince of esprits-faux, the hireling
1342 Intro| between the Being which is prior to Not-being, and the Being
1343 Soph| animals; which hunts man,—privately—for hire,—taking money in
1344 Intro| encouraging sign of our probable success in the rest of the
1345 Intro| solution of metaphysical problems, and has thrown down many
1346 Intro| conception of the actual complex procedure of the mind by which scientific
1347 Soph| the lord of the hunt, and proclaim the capture of him; and
1348 Intro| the common logic is the Procrustes’ bed into which they are
1349 Intro| Sophists, Gorgias, Protagoras, Prodicus, Hippias, were good and
1350 Soph| exist before is said to be a producer, and that which is brought
1351 Soph| true.~STRANGER: And other products of human creation are also
1352 Soph| as a hero of debate, who professed the eristic art.~THEAETETUS:
1353 Intro| the character of a liberal profession. But the most distinguishing
1354 Soph| they did not make these professions.~STRANGER: In all and every
1355 Soph| the range of Parmenides’ prohibition?~THEAETETUS: In what?~STRANGER:
1356 Intro| compared to rocks which project or overhang in some ancient
1357 Intro| opposition of Being and Not-being projected into space became the atoms
1358 Intro| while others have an undue prominence given to them. Some of them,
1359 Soph| attempt this refutation and proof; take heart, therefore,
1360 Soph| stripped him of all his common properties, and reached his difference
1361 Intro| ecclesiastical terms: apostles, prophets, bishops, elders, catholics.
1362 Soph| certainly cannot object to your proposal, that Theaetetus should
1363 Soph| said; and let us do as you propose.~STRANGER: Well, then, pursuing
1364 Soph| in the sphere of which we proposed to make enquiry?~THEAETETUS:
1365 Intro| criticism on the views which are propounded by another.~The style, though
1366 Intro| appeal to common sense, Plato propounds for our consideration a
1367 Soph| of bodies which may with propriety be comprehended under a
1368 Intro| all his life denying in prose and also in verse. ‘You
1369 Intro| than Xenophanes (compare Protag.). Still older were theories
1370 Intro| Parmenides, who is the protagonist in the dialogue which is
1371 Soph| boy, the great Parmenides protested against this doctrine, and
1372 Intro| But the Sophist is the Proteus who takes the likeness of
1373 Intro| all sciences demand of us protracted study and attention, the
1374 Soph| the argument has already proven.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
1375 Soph| true.~STRANGER: And thus we provide a rich feast for tyros,
1376 Intro| about them. Not being well provided with names, the former I
1377 Intro| all things, attributing to Providence a care, infinitesimal as
1378 Soph| of mimicry, and this the province assigned to it; as for the
1379 Soph| are the men. I say this provisionally, for I think that the line
1380 Intro| countries, seems to have provoked a reaction towards Materialism.
1381 Intro| example, that the conquest of Prussia by Napoleon I. was either
1382 Intro| stranger, who is described as a pupil of Parmenides and Zeno,
1383 Intro| to have said of his own pupils: ‘There is only one of you
1384 Soph| effected by gifts, hire, purchase; and the other part of acquisitive,
1385 Soph| other things, which are purchased in one city, and carried
1386 Soph| ought to be fairest and purest.~THEAETETUS: Very true.~
1387 Soph| benefit to be derived from the purge is greater or less than
1388 Soph| learns modesty; he must be purged of his prejudices first
1389 Soph| have been removed, so the purifier of the soul is conscious
1390 Intro| similar field: jesuits, puritans, methodists, and the like.
1391 Intro| parts of Greece. For the purposes of comedy, Socrates may
1392 Soph| propose.~STRANGER: Well, then, pursuing the same analytic method
1393 Soph| notion.~STRANGER: Let us push the question; for if they
1394 Intro| in after ages. It was the pushing aside of the old, the revelation
1395 Intro| alternation of them. Of the Pythagoreans or of Anaxagoras he makes
1396 Intro| there are various kinds,—qualitative, quantitative, inductive,
1397 Intro| various kinds,—qualitative, quantitative, inductive, mechanical,
1398 Intro| with himself, instead of quarrelling with his neighbours, and
1399 Intro| the consequence is that he quarrels with himself, instead of
1400 Intro| lawyer, now haranguing, now questioning, until the final appearance
1401 Intro| and statesmen materially quicken the ‘process of the suns.’~
1402 Soph| controversial skill, then, to quote your own observation, no
1403 Soph| always an endless conflict raging concerning these matters.~
1404 Intro| now clothing himself in rags of philosophy, now more
1405 Soph| contracts, and is carried on at random, and without rules of art,
1406 Soph| has carried us beyond the range of Parmenides’ prohibition?~
1407 Soph| young men of wealth and rank—such is the conclusion.~
1408 Soph| us begin again, then, and re-examine some of our statements concerning
1409 Intro| the feeling with which the reader rises from the perusal of
1410 Intro| Greek thinkers affords the readiest illustration of his meaning
1411 Soph| And there may be a third reappearance of him;—for he may have
1412 Intro| improved before they can be reasoned with; and the equally humourous
1413 Soph| What were they? Will you recall them to my mind?~STRANGER:
1414 Soph| private hunting, one sort receives hire, and the other brings
1415 Soph| and if he creeps into the recesses of the imitative art, and
1416 Soph| think so. See how, by his reciprocation of opposites, the many-headed
1417 Intro| sentences, the interpreter and reciter of the poets, the divider
1418 Intro| to mental science is the recognition of the communion of classes,
1419 Intro| to his writings as to the recollections of a first love, not undeserving
1420 Intro| disagreed once, but are now reconciled by the art of music’ (Symp.).
1421 Intro| fractions or a perpetually recurring decimal the object of our
1422 Intro| an invisible world, and reduce the substances of their
1423 Intro| rest will move; here is a reductio ad absurdum. Two out of
1424 Soph| from below upwards with reeds and rods:—What is the right
1425 Intro| dialogues of Plato contain many references to contemporary philosophy.
1426 Intro| classes to which he may be referred. This is certainly intelligible,
1427 Soph| desperate case.~STRANGER: Reflect: after having made these
1428 Intro| produced, when the world refuses to allow some sect or body
1429 Intro| thus saved the trouble of refuting them. But (2) if all things
1430 Intro| predication, because he regards both of them as making knowledge
1431 Intro| upon him. But he does not regret the time spent in the study
1432 Intro| as a centrifugal force, a regulator as well as a spring, a law
1433 Intro| succeed them. Once they reigned supreme, now they are subordinated
1434 Intro| hopelessly enslaved by them: ‘Die reinen Physiker sind nur die Thiere.’
1435 Intro| is there any meaning in reintroducing the forms of the old logic?
1436 Intro| does not on this ground reject the claim of the Sophist
1437 Intro| forms of thought some are rejected by him, while others have
1438 Intro| riddles, and go on our way rejoicing. Most men (like Aristotle)
1439 Intro| though becoming may. And we rejoin: Does not the soul know?
1440 Intro| Being and Not-Being only relates to our most abstract notions,
1441 Intro| on that ground he claims relationship, as he had already claimed
1442 Intro| moist, which also formed relationships. There were the Eleatics
1443 Intro| of them absolutely, some relatively, seemingly without any principle
1444 Intro| sum or correlation of all relatives. When this reconciliation
1445 Intro| small.’ And he extends this relativity to the conceptions of just
1446 Soph| strife and peace, but admit a relaxation and alternation of them;
1447 Intro| Achilles and the tortoise, we relegate some of them to the sphere
1448 Intro| image of God;—that what all religions were seeking after from
1449 Soph| the previous difficulties remain the same, and there will
1450 Intro| hieroglyphic, would have remained undeciphered, unless two
1451 Intro| leave the question, merely remarking that the opposition, if
1452 Soph| be rightly said to be the remedy?~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
1453 Soph| fully discussed, and that he remembered the answer.~SOCRATES: Then
1454 Intro| which he with difficulty remembers. No former philosopher had
1455 Soph| sure I will, and I will remind you of them, by putting
1456 Intro| the discussion. There is a reminiscence of the old Theaetetus in
1457 Intro| a less defined and more remote relation. There human thought
1458 Intro| within the charmed circle, he removes to a little distance and
1459 Soph| STRANGER: Let us, then, renew the attempt, and in dividing
1460 Intro| after truth, the master of repartee whom no one ever defeated
1461 Soph| do so.~STRANGER: I will repeat a sentence to you in which
1462 Soph| been children, to whom they repeated each his own mythus or story;—
1463 Intro| Megarians, or whether the ‘repellent Materialists’ (Theaet.)
1464 Intro| Eleatic philosopher would have replied that Being is alone true.
1465 Soph| have I any difficulty in replying that by us they are regarded
1466 Intro| him or not’; or, as he is reported himself to have said of
1467 Intro| pictorial forms of sense, to representations in which the picture vanishes
1468 Intro| the ‘evil one,’ the ideal representative of all that Plato most disliked
1469 Intro| passage just quoted, but only representing their power to be contemptible;
1470 Intro| indistinguishable. There was no reproach conveyed by the word; the
1471 Intro| difficulty with which we reproached the dualists; for motion
1472 Soph| by many—either of roughly reproving their errors, or of gently
1473 Intro| distinguished, is clearly repugnant to the common use of language.~
1474 Soph| all, or even undergoing a repulse? Such a faint heart, as
1475 Intro| not fulfil what its form requires. Nor does any mind ever
1476 Intro| dramatic power,—in this respect resembling the Philebus and the Laws,—
1477 Soph| just in time in making a resistance to such separatists, and
1478 Intro| only with a view to their resolution. The aim of the dialogue
1479 Soph| compound, and at another resolve all things, whether making
1480 Soph| that the two will still be resolved into one.’~THEAETETUS: Most
1481 Intro| understanding which Hegel resolves into their original nothingness.
1482 Intro| does not deny that they are respectable men.~The Sophist, in the
1483 Intro| Not that dialectic is a respecter of names or persons, or
1484 Soph| men. Moreover we are no respecters of persons, but seekers
1485 Intro| physical and moral, their respective limits, and showing how
1486 Intro| latter, and chooses as his respondent Theaetetus, whom he already
1487 Soph| talk with another when he responds pleasantly, and is light
1488 Soph| breath, and while we are resting, we may reckon up in how
1489 Intro| inextricably blended.~Plato restricts the conception of Not-being
1490 Intro| Republic), involves grave results to the mind and life of
1491 Soph| half of the whole, termed retailing?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
1492 Intro| of the master no longer retains a hold upon him. But he
1493 Intro| noticeable point is the final retirement of Socrates from the field
1494 Soph| will grapple with us and retort our argument upon ourselves;
1495 Intro| not in the lower sense of returning to outward objects, but
1496 Intro| only to be perpetually reunited. The finite and infinite,
1497 Intro| philosophy which has been revealed in the latter days. The
1498 Intro| pleased to call our minds,’ by reverting to a time when our present
1499 Intro| may come back again and review the things of sense, the
1500 Intro| their ideas to criticism and revision. He had once thought as