Dialogue

 1 Intro|          observe the tendency of Plato to combine two or more subjects
 2 Intro|          appear under old names. Plato is now chiefly concerned,
 3 Intro|          the mind of the reader. Plato apologizes for his tediousness,
 4 Intro|         to a Phrygian or Lydian. Plato glories in this impartiality
 5 Intro|      Socrates was a lesson which Plato was not slow in learning—
 6 Intro|       politics than any other of Plato’s writings. The city of
 7 Intro|        the political idealism of Plato soars into a region beyond;
 8 Intro|    political problems with which Plato’s mind is occupied. He treats
 9 Intro|         to the other writings of Plato; lastly (7), we may briefly
10 Intro|     remarkable phenomena. Nor is Plato, here or elsewhere, wanting
11 Intro|          of the devices by which Plato, like a modern novelist,
12 Intro|         in the later writings of Plato, when compared with the
13 Intro|        reason to expect that all Plato’s visions of a former, any
14 Intro|      philosophical lessons which Plato presents to us in this veiled
15 Intro|    theologians and philosophers, Plato relegates his explanation
16 Intro|        them by divine help. Thus Plato may be said to represent
17 Intro|          no one knew better than Plato that the introduction of
18 Intro|          be satisfied to find in Plato a statement of the difficulties
19 Intro|      were doubtless indicated to Plato’s own mind, as the corresponding
20 Intro|           age to disparage them. Plato’s ‘prudens quaestio’ respecting
21 Intro|    Statesman seems to contend in Plato’s mind with the political;
22 Intro|          the earlier writings of Plato is a revival of the Socratic
23 Intro|       new directions of enquiry. Plato seems to be conscious of
24 Intro|       found in Aristotle, but in Plato.~The doctrine that virtue
25 Intro|     asserted in the Statesman of Plato. The too much and the too
26 Intro|    measuring.~In the Theaetetus, Plato remarks that precision in
27 Intro|        is a great part of power. Plato does not trouble himself
28 Intro|      remark is characteristic of Plato’s later style.~The king
29 Intro|       modern theologians, and by Plato himself, of the Supreme
30 Intro|          of which are noticed by Plato:—first, because all good
31 Intro|        and this is the spirit of Plato in the Statesman. But he
32 Intro|      might be, what is. And thus Plato seems to stumble, almost
33 Intro|        education (compare Laws). Plato is strongly of opinion that
34 Intro|       other. As in the Republic, Plato has observed that there
35 Intro|        virtue, and not many: now Plato is inclined to think that
36 Intro|   framework of a single dialogue Plato has thus combined two distinct
37 Intro|        the execution of his plan Plato has invented or distinguished
38 Intro|          But in the Statesman of Plato, as in the New Testament,
39 Intro|      varieties of circumstances. Plato is fond of picturing the
40 Intro|       king; but neither they nor Plato had arrived at the conception
41 Intro|       head either of God or man.~Plato and Aristotle are sensible
42 Intro|        of the many. According to Plato, he is a physician who has
43 Intro|        more evils than it cures. Plato is aware of the imperfection
44 Intro|          best. What the best is, Plato does not attempt to determine;
45 Intro|   Statesman is characteristic of Plato’s later style, in which
46 Intro|          not venture to say that Plato was soured by old age, but
47 Intro|    cranes and all other animals. Plato cannot help laughing (compare
48 Intro| statesman, but assumes his form. Plato sees that the ideal of the
49 Intro|        on the scene: in the Laws Plato appears to have forgotten
50 Intro|    connexion which is assumed by Plato to exist between politics
51 Intro|         the end of the Republic, Plato touches on the subject of
52 Intro|          as an undoubted work of Plato. The detailed consideration
53 Intro|       them to other dialogues of Plato are such as might be expected
54 Intro|        form is characteristic of Plato’s later style.~3. The close
55 Intro|         on a presumption that in Plato’s writings we may expect
56 Intro|          progress in the mind of Plato. And the appearance of change
57 Intro|          the earlier writings of Plato from the Laws. And the Theaetetus,
58 State|         adept at the airy life. (Plato is here introducing a new