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The Apology
Part
1 Intro | relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence
2 Intro | of Socrates, according to Plato’s conception of him, appearing
3 Intro | disciple. The Apology of Plato may be compared generally
4 Intro | was not said, and is only Plato’s view of the situation.
5 Intro | s view of the situation. Plato was not, like Xenophon,
6 Intro | writers. The Apology of Plato is not the report of what
7 Intro | It is significant that Plato is said to have been present
8 Intro | are the only ones in which Plato makes mention of himself.
9 Intro | himself. The circumstance that Plato was to be one of his sureties
10 Intro | cast anew in the mould of Plato.~There is not much in the
11 Intro | been present to the mind of Plato when depicting the sufferings
12 Intro | Socrates agree generally with Plato; but they have lost the
13 Intro | court (including ‘this’ Plato), to witness on his behalf;
14 Intro | defence was that with which Plato has provided him. But leaving
15 Intro | was the impression which Plato in the Apology intended
16 Intro | about them. According to Plato (compare Phaedo; Symp.),
17 Intro | second question, whether Plato meant to represent Socrates
18 Intro | which is also the feeling of Plato in other passages (Laws).
19 Intro | only to the imagination of Plato. The arguments of those
20 Intro | Socrates, partly because Plato would not have been guilty
21 Intro | produced on the mind of Plato, we cannot certainly determine;
22 Intro | Socrates does not prevent Plato from introducing them together
23 Text | of Ariston, whose brother Plato is present; and Aeantodorus,
24 Text | I propose that penalty: Plato, Crito, Critobulus, and
Charmides
Part
25 PreF | followed in this Translation of Plato is the latest 8vo. edition
26 PreF | s German Translation of Plato with Introductions; Zeller’
27 PreF | arrange the Dialogues of Plato into a harmonious whole.
28 PreF | spirit in the writings of Plato, but not a unity of design
29 PreF | endeavoured to approach Plato from a point of view which
30 PreF | volumes has been to represent Plato as the father of Idealism,
31 PreF | writings commonly attributed to Plato in antiquity, any more than
32 PreF | quoted several Dialogues of Plato, have quoted them all? Something
33 PreF | are not only unworthy of Plato, and in several passages
34 PreF | estimate which he has formed of Plato’s Laws; nor with his opinion
35 PreF | with his opinion respecting Plato’s doctrine of the rotation
36 PreS | 1875) of the Dialogues of Plato in English, I had to acknowledge
37 PreS | article, is superior to Plato: at any rate it is couched
38 PreS | writers of Greece, Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Pindar,
39 PreS | elements. In a translation of Plato what may be termed the interests
40 PreS | the subject. Whereas in Plato we are not always certain
41 PreS(3)| The ‘Ideas’ of Plato and Modern Philosophy.~
42 PreS | contemporary of Thucydides and Plato in anacolutha and repetitions.
43 PreS(4)| The myths of Plato.~
44 PreS | the original. The Greek of Plato often goes beyond the English
45 PreS | example, in translating Plato, it would equally be an
46 PreS | are but poor imitations of Plato, which fall very far short
47 PreS | the so-called Epistles of Plato were spurious. His friend
48 PreS | that all the Epistles of Plato are genuine, and very few
49 PreS | of forgery. They imitate Plato, who never imitates either
50 PreS | faults which of all writers Plato was most careful to avoid,
51 PreS | very different from that of Plato; and mistakes of fact, as
52 PreS | from the hand or mind of Plato. The other testimonies to
53 PreS | testimonies to the voyages of Plato to Sicily and the court
54 PreS | around the personality of Plato,—more voyages, more journeys
55 PreS | supposes that in the mind of Plato they took, at different
56 PreS | stage of his philosophy Plato attributed Ideas to all
57 PreS | reconcile with the statements of Plato himself. The preparations
58 PreS | Ideas, which he ascribes to Plato. I have not the space to
59 PreS | Aristotle, to the dialogues of Plato until we have ascertained
60 PreS | most of the dialogues of Plato. How much of them is to
61 PreS | is the attempt to explain Plato out of the writings of Aristotle.
62 PreS | seven or eight references to Plato, although nothing really
63 PreS | of Aristotle respecting Plato, but of a later generation
64 PreS | 2) There is no hint in Plato’s own writings that he was
65 PreS | No hint is given of what Plato meant by the ‘longer way’ (
66 PreS | no reason to suppose that Plato’s theory, or, rather, his
67 PreS | are always maintained in Plato. But the lesser logical
68 PreS | we admit inconsistency in Plato, but no further. He lived
69 PreS | one of those who believe Plato to have been a mystic or
70 PreS | meaning. I have just said that Plato is to be interpreted by
71 PreS | says Dr. Jackson, ‘that Plato would have changed his opinions,
72 PreS | not therefore follow that Plato intended one dialogue to
73 PreS | follows’. The dialogues of Plato are like poems, isolated
74 PreS | arranging the dialogues of Plato in chronological order according
75 PreS | to make the chronology of Plato’s writings dependent upon
76 PreS | Jackson’s ‘Later Theory,’ Plato’s Ideas, which were once
77 PreS | says (J. of Philol.) that ‘Plato hoped by the study of a
78 PreS | any such notion as this in Plato or anywhere in ancient philosophy?
79 PreS | To this ‘Later Theory’ of Plato’s Ideas I oppose the authority
80 PreS | conclusion I may remark that in Plato’s writings there is both
81 PreS(8)| Comparison of the Laws of Plato with Spartan and Athenian
82 Intro | for in the philosophy of Plato (Greek) still retains an
83 Intro | eminently characteristic of Plato and his contemporaries; (
84 Intro | 7) And still the mind of Plato, having snatched for a moment
85 Intro | person who, like his kinsman Plato, is ennobled by the connection
86 Intro | we see with surprise that Plato, who in his other writings
87 Intro | certain favourite notions of Plato, such as the doctrine of
88 Intro | date supplied either by Plato himself or allusions found
89 Intro | stage of the philosophy of Plato.~
Cratylus
Part
90 Intro | perplexity to the student of Plato. While in fancy and humour,
91 Intro | We need not suppose that Plato used words in order to conceal
92 Intro | precise aim of the author. Plato wrote satires in the form
93 Intro | we should have understood Plato better, and many points
94 Intro | most of the dialogues of Plato, allowance has to be made
95 Intro | guessing, but the guesses of Plato are better than all the
96 Intro | hardly derives any light from Plato’s other writings, and still
97 Intro | century. May we suppose that Plato, like Lucian, has been amusing
98 Intro | result of the enquiry? Is Plato an upholder of the conventional
99 Intro | strongly insisted on by Plato in many other passages)...
100 Intro | the parts of a dialogue of Plato to tend equally to some
101 Intro | nearly all the works of Plato, but to the Cratylus and
102 Intro | some of the dialogues of Plato may be more truly viewed:—
103 Intro | or wholly wrong, or that Plato, though he evidently inclines
104 Intro | the friend or teacher of Plato; nor have we any proof that
105 Intro | resembled the likeness of him in Plato any more than the Critias
106 Intro | more than the Critias of Plato is like the real Critias,
107 Intro | We can hardly say that Plato was aware of the truth,
108 Intro | which he thus describes, Plato had probably no very definite
109 Intro | not have been formed in Plato’s age, than that which he
110 Intro | thought that the mind of Plato is more truly seen in the
111 Intro | first, the desire to bring Plato’s theory of language into
112 Intro | based upon the ideas of Plato, but upon the flux of Heracleitus.
113 Intro | the Sophist and Politicus, Plato expressly draws attention
114 Intro | Socrates is not the less Plato’s own, because not based
115 Intro | upon the ideas; 2nd, that Plato’s theory of language is
116 Intro | that they are serious. For Plato is in advance of his age
117 Intro | either weak or extravagant. Plato is a supporter of the Onomatopoetic
118 Intro | phase of the philosophy of Plato, and would have been regarded
119 Intro | Such is the character which Plato intends to depict in some
120 Intro | as would have justified Plato in propounding real derivations.
121 Intro | to the indignation which Plato felt at having wasted his
122 Intro | now consider (I) how far Plato in the Cratylus has discovered
123 Intro | anticipations of his genius.~I. (1) Plato is aware that language is
124 Intro | Compare Timaeus.)~Neither is Plato wrong in supposing that
125 Intro | There is no trace in any of Plato’s writings that he was acquainted
126 Intro | wind and cold, and so on. Plato’s analysis of the letters
127 Intro | movement of the tongue, Plato makes a great step in the
128 Intro | him the distinction.~(4) Plato distinctly affirms that
129 Intro | this and other passages Plato shows that he is as completely
130 Intro | them to be our masters.~Plato does not add the further
131 Intro | escaped the observation of Plato. He is not aware that the
132 Intro | no more trace of this in Plato than there is of a language
133 Intro | grandeur of the sound.’ Plato was very willing to use
134 Intro | the character of Socrates, Plato envelopes the whole subject
135 Intro | perfection of Homer and Plato. Yet we are far from saying
136 Intro | familiar to Socrates and Plato. (5) There is the fallacy
137 Intro | many times over.~(Compare Plato, Laws):—~‘ATHENIAN STRANGER:
138 Intro | standing on his right hand,’ in Plato’s striking image, who formed
139 Intro | respect falling short of Plato. Westphal holds that there
140 Intro | have a significance; as Plato observes that the letter
141 Intro | their English equivalents. Plato also remarks, as we remark,
142 Intro | to us. Hence we see why Plato, like ourselves unable to
143 Intro | admit with Hermogenes in Plato and with Horace that usage
144 Intro | writer with the exception of Plato, who is himself not free
Critias
Part
145 Intro | connected with the Republic. Plato, as he has already told
146 Intro | due to the imagination of Plato, who has used the name of
147 Intro | regard to the description of Plato, and without a suspicion
148 Intro | No one knew better than Plato how to invent ‘a noble lie.’
149 Intro | inhabitants out of the soil. Plato here, as elsewhere, ingeniously
150 Intro | priests, that is to say, Plato himself, from the dominion
151 Intro | the island of Atlantis, Plato probably intended to show
152 Intro | the island of Atlantis, Plato is describing a sort of
153 Intro | children.~It is singular that Plato should have prefixed the
154 Intro | perhaps in some other cases, Plato’s characters have no reference
Crito
Part
155 Intro | conciliate popular good-will. Plato, writing probably in the
156 Intro | of escape is uncertain: Plato could easily have invented
157 Intro | sophistical’ reasons which Plato has put into his mouth.
158 Intro | be observed however that Plato never intended to answer
159 Intro | of speech which occur in Plato.~
Euthydemus
Part
160 Intro | latent in the dialogues of Plato. The nature of definition
161 Intro | of all the Dialogues of Plato, that in which he approaches
162 Intro | stage of philosophy which Plato satirises in the Euthydemus.
163 Intro | They are patent to us in Plato, and we are inclined to
164 Intro | disputes the humour, whether of Plato in the ancient, or of Pope
165 Intro | Sophisticis Elenchis,’ which Plato, with equal command of their
166 Intro | Here, as everywhere else, Plato is making war against the
167 Intro | nature of all phenomena. Plato is aware that his own doctrine
168 Intro | the writings against which Plato’s humour is directed. Most
169 Intro | whether, as in the Cratylus, Plato has or has not mixed up
170 Intro | the drama, seems to admit. Plato in the abundance of his
171 Intro | times. The persons whom Plato ridicules in the epilogue
172 Intro | serving their own interests. Plato quaintly describes them
173 Intro | the common subject of all Plato’s earlier Dialogues. The
174 Intro | in the later Dialogues of Plato, of embittered hatred; and
Euthyphro
Part
175 Intro | before the trial begins, Plato would like to put the world
The First Alcibiades
Part
176 Pre | the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only
177 Pre | Aristotle omit the name of Plato, and some of them omit the
178 Pre | in fathering his works on Plato; and to the forger or imitator,
179 Pre | the difference between Plato and his imitators was not
180 Pre | Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable
181 Pre | That is most certainly Plato’s which Aristotle attributes
182 Pre | cites without mentioning Plato, under their own names,
183 Pre | the last twenty years of Plato’s life. Nor must we forget
184 Pre | dialogues to any one but Plato. And lastly, we may remark
185 Pre | be fairly attributed to Plato, on the ground of (2) length, (
186 Pre | have ever been ascribed to Plato, are undoubtedly genuine.
187 Pre | more celebrated name of Plato, or of some Platonist in
188 Pre | all times? Certainly not Plato, who exhibits the greatest
189 Pre | transition? Certainly not Plato, whose earlier writings
190 Pre | expressly attributed to Plato, but in his citation of
191 Pre | an undoubted dialogue of Plato. On the other hand, the
192 Pre | of the other writings of Plato. The funeral oration of
193 Pre | two doubtful writings of Plato I have added the First Alcibiades,
194 Pre | the disputed dialogues of Plato, has the greatest merit,
195 Pre | the earlier writings of Plato. The motive of the piece
196 Pre | the undoubted dialogues of Plato. We know, too, that Alcibiades
197 Pre | contemporaries of Socrates and Plato. (1) In the entire absence
198 Pre | and spurious writings of Plato. They fade off imperceptibly
199 Pre | discourses both of Socrates and Plato may have formed the basis
200 Pre | different. But the writings of Plato, unlike the writings of
201 Pre | which pass under the name of Plato, if we exclude the works
202 Pre | affects our judgment of Plato, either as a thinker or
203 Intro | the undoubted dialogues of Plato. The process of interrogation
204 Intro | the undoubted dialogues of Plato in which there is so little
Gorgias
Part
205 Intro | several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among
206 Intro | beset the interpreters of Plato in this matter. First, they
207 Intro | measuring) in the study of Plato, as well as of other great
208 Intro | exaggerated. We may give Plato too much system, and alter
209 Intro | agreement with the spirit of Plato, and the amount of direct
210 Intro | has puzzled students of Plato by the appearance of two
211 Intro | Sophists in the dialogues of Plato, he is vain and boastful,
212 Intro | insensible to higher arguments. Plato may have felt that there
213 Intro | provoking than in any other of Plato’s writings: for he is ‘fooled
214 Intro | persons in the Dialogues of Plato, a precise dramatic date
215 Intro | regard (1) to the age of Plato and the ironical character
216 Intro | all the other dialogues of Plato, we are made aware that
217 Intro | may be happy on the rack, Plato has already admitted that
218 Intro | nature.~The idealism of Plato is founded upon this sentiment.
219 Intro | common understanding as Plato’s conception of happiness.
220 Intro | unpleasant consequences. Nor can Plato in the Gorgias be deemed
221 Intro | merged in politics. Both in Plato and Aristotle, as well as
222 Intro | suffering goodness which Plato desires to pourtray, not
223 Intro | sort of wrong and obloquy.~Plato, like other philosophers,
224 Intro | accordance with the spirit of Plato. He supposes a day of retribution,
225 Intro | remoter consequences.~(3) Plato’s theory of punishment is
226 Intro | On this representation of Plato’s the criticism has been
227 Intro | too strict a manner. That Plato sometimes reasons from them
228 Intro | eternal damnation.~We do Plato violence in pressing his
229 Intro | according to the truth. Plato may be accused of representing
230 Intro | pairs of opposites, which in Plato easily pass into one another,
231 Intro | we must not forget that Plato’s conception of pleasure
232 Intro | objective character. Had Plato fixed his mind, not on the
233 Intro | which they are derived. To Plato the whole world appears
234 Intro | written at the same period of Plato’s life. For the Republic
235 Intro | in the same relation to Plato’s theory of morals which
236 Intro | fiction seems to have involved Plato in the necessity of supposing
237 Intro | necessary to repeat that Plato is playing ‘both sides of
238 Intro | upon the obvious fact that Plato is a dramatic writer, whose
239 Intro | opposed both to the spirit of Plato and of ancient philosophy
240 Intro | philosophy generally. For Plato is not asserting any abstract
241 Intro | liberty of prophesying;’ and Plato is not affirming any abstract
242 Intro | Socrates.~...~The irony of Plato sometimes veils from us
243 Intro | consequences. But Socrates, or Plato for him, neither divides
244 Intro | The Greek in the age of Plato admitted praise to be one
245 Intro | danger, the pilot, not like Plato’s captain in the Republic,
246 Intro | terrible consequences which Plato foretells no longer await
247 Intro | reapeth.’ We may imagine with Plato an ideal statesman in whom
248 Intro | Who is the true poet?~Plato expels the poets from his
249 Intro | than a thousand sermons? Plato, like the Puritans, is too
250 Intro | sort of plaything, or, in Plato’s language, a flattery,
251 Intro | leave the result with God.’ Plato does not say that God will
252 Intro | imaginable world at present, Plato here, as in the Phaedo and
253 Intro | whether in the Bible or Plato, the veil of another life.
254 Intro | reveal the invisible. Of this Plato, unlike some commentators
255 Intro | exaggeration of feeling Plato seems to shrink: he leaves
256 Intro | and theology.~THE MYTHS OF PLATO.~The myths of Plato are
257 Intro | MYTHS OF PLATO.~The myths of Plato are a phenomenon unique
258 Intro | adaptation of an old tradition Plato makes a new beginning for
259 Intro | Laws). There also occur in Plato continuous images; some
260 Intro | ingenious fancy occurs to Plato that the upper atmosphere
261 Intro | All the three myths in Plato which relate to the world
262 Intro | reflection which is made by Plato elsewhere, that the two
263 Intro | the three greater myths of Plato, nor perhaps any allegory
264 Intro | as they were born,’ but Plato only raises, without satisfying,
265 Intro | unlike anything else in Plato. There is an Oriental, or
266 Intro | said about a future life. Plato seems to make use of them
267 Intro | This art is possessed by Plato in a degree which has never
268 Intro | course verbal only, yet Plato, like theologians in other
269 Intro | the earth. This is what Plato calls the ‘reign of Cronos;’
270 Intro | ordinary life? For a while Plato balances the two sides of
271 Intro | answering. But then, as Plato rather mischievously adds, ‘
272 Intro | theocratical. In this fanciful tale Plato has dropped, or almost dropped,
273 Intro | It is characteristic of Plato and of his age to pass from
274 Intro | the broken metaphors of Plato, if the effect of the whole
275 Intro | the myths and parables of Plato the ease and grace of conversation
276 Intro | society. The descriptions of Plato have a greater life and
277 Intro | homeliness and simplicity. Plato can do with words just as
Ion
Part
278 Intro | writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated
279 Intro | have been passing before Plato’s mind when he describes
280 Intro | already working in the mind of Plato, and is embodied by him
Laches
Part
281 Intro | of the freedom with which Plato treats facts. For the scene
Lysis
Part
282 Intro | of the other Dialogues of Plato (compare especially the
283 Intro | As in other writings of Plato (for example, the Republic),
284 Intro | difficult argument. But Plato has not forgotten dramatic
285 Intro | minds both of Aristotle and Plato.~5) Can we expect friendship
286 Intro | they had not in the age of Plato reached the point of regarding
Menexenus
Part
287 Pre | the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only
288 Pre | Aristotle omit the name of Plato, and some of them omit the
289 Pre | in fathering his works on Plato; and to the forger or imitator,
290 Pre | the difference between Plato and his imitators was not
291 Pre | Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable
292 Pre | That is most certainly Plato’s which Aristotle attributes
293 Pre | cites without mentioning Plato, under their own names,
294 Pre | the last twenty years of Plato’s life. Nor must we forget
295 Pre | dialogues to any one but Plato. And lastly, we may remark
296 Pre | be fairly attributed to Plato, on the ground of (2) length, (
297 Pre | have ever been ascribed to Plato, are undoubtedly genuine.
298 Pre | more celebrated name of Plato, or of some Platonist in
299 Pre | all times? Certainly not Plato, who exhibits the greatest
300 Pre | transition? Certainly not Plato, whose earlier writings
301 Pre | expressly attributed to Plato, but in his citation of
302 Pre | an undoubted dialogue of Plato. On the other hand, the
303 Pre | of the other writings of Plato. The funeral oration of
304 Pre | two doubtful writings of Plato I have added the First Alcibiades,
305 Pre | the disputed dialogues of Plato, has the greatest merit,
306 Pre | the earlier writings of Plato. The motive of the piece
307 Pre | the undoubted dialogues of Plato. We know, too, that Alcibiades
308 Pre | contemporaries of Socrates and Plato. (1) In the entire absence
309 Pre | and spurious writings of Plato. They fade off imperceptibly
310 Pre | discourses both of Socrates and Plato may have formed the basis
311 Pre | different. But the writings of Plato, unlike the writings of
312 Pre | which pass under the name of Plato, if we exclude the works
313 Pre | affects our judgment of Plato, either as a thinker or
314 Intro | to whom in the Phaedrus Plato shows a strong antipathy,
315 Intro | and is in the manner of Plato, notwithstanding the anachronism
316 Intro | the supposed oration. But Plato, like Shakespeare, is careless
317 Intro | of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is evidently intending
318 Intro | in all that he says, and Plato, both in the Symposium and
319 Intro | great original genius like Plato might or might not have
320 Intro | the character of Socrates, Plato, who knows so well how to
321 Intro | same kind which occur in Plato, in whom the dramatic element
322 Intro | is a genuine writing of Plato, or an imitation only, remains
323 Intro | wear the look either of Plato or of an extremely skilful
Meno
Part
324 Intro | answer which is given by Plato is paradoxical enough, and
325 Intro | that virtue is knowledge, Plato has been constantly tending
326 Intro | be attained, and such as Plato himself seems to see in
327 Intro | or of ‘fifty drachms.’ Plato is desirous of deepening
328 Intro | portion of the Dialogue. But Plato certainly does not mean
329 Intro | which is recognized by Plato in this passage. But he
330 Intro | in the Ion and Phaedrus, Plato appears to acknowledge an
331 Intro | exertion.~The idealism of Plato is here presented in a less
332 Intro | circumstances of his life. Plato is silent about his treachery
333 Intro | his parting words. Perhaps Plato may have been desirous of
334 Intro | the transcendentalism of Plato, who, in the second stage
335 Intro | hopeless. The doctrines of Plato are necessarily different
336 Intro | any of the Dialogues of Plato were written before the
337 Intro | Anytus.~We cannot argue that Plato was more likely to have
338 Intro | that the characters in Plato are very far from resembling
339 Intro | likeness to the Meno of Plato.~The place of the Meno in
340 Intro | Socrates.~...~ON THE IDEAS OF PLATO.~Plato’s doctrine of ideas
341 Intro | ON THE IDEAS OF PLATO.~Plato’s doctrine of ideas has
342 Intro | theory of knowledge, which Plato in various ways and under
343 Intro | only in about a third of Plato’s writings and are not confined
344 Intro | down into a single system. Plato uses them, though he also
345 Intro | than a future life on which Plato is disposed to dwell. There
346 Intro | one of those passages in Plato which, partaking both of
347 Intro | that they are present to Plato’s mind, namely, the remark
348 Intro | or as an exposition of Plato’s theory of ideas, but with
349 Intro | perfect conception, which Plato is able to attain, of the
350 Intro | which in the series of Plato’s works immediately follows
351 Intro | No doubt is expressed by Plato, either in the Timaeus or
352 Intro | as a doctrine held not by Plato, but by another sect of
353 Intro | Nor in what may be termed Plato’s abridgement of the history
354 Intro | still working in the mind of Plato, and the correlation of
355 Intro | inconsistent, are the statements of Plato respecting the doctrine
356 Intro | ever-varying expression of Plato’s Idealism. The terms used
357 Intro | relate to a subject of which Plato himself would have said
358 Intro | culminates in the ideas of Plato, or rather in the single
359 Intro | problems of philosophy.~Plato also left behind him a most
360 Intro | for the illustration of Plato to observe that he, like
361 Intro | to observe that he, like Plato, insists that God is true
362 Intro | extension, Descartes, like Plato, supposes them to be reunited
363 Intro | negation is relation’ of Plato’s Sophist. The grand description
364 Intro | Spinoza approaches nearer to Plato than in his conception of
365 Intro | is between the ideas of Plato and the world of sense.~
366 Intro | conception of the ideas of Plato survives in the ‘forms’
367 Intro | there are many passages of Plato in which the importance
368 Intro | abstract and narrow than Plato’s ideas, of ‘thing in itself,’
369 Intro | applied.~The question which Plato has raised respecting the
370 Intro | actual facts as the ideas of Plato. Few students of theology
371 Intro | them. We are still, as in Plato’s age, groping about for
Parmenides
Part
372 Intro | ANALYSIS~The awe with which Plato regarded the character of ‘
373 Intro | None of the writings of Plato have been more copiously
374 Intro | to the other writings of Plato is also uncertain; the connexion
375 Intro | left in doubt as to whether Plato is speaking his own sentiments
376 Intro | imagination which enabled Plato to go beyond himself. To
377 Intro | Antiphon, the half-brother of Plato, who had once been inclined
378 Intro | bridle-maker; by this slight touch Plato verifies the previous description
379 Intro | occurred; secondly, that Plato is very likely to have invented
380 Intro | appears to be referred to by Plato in two other places (Theaet.,
381 Intro | Eleatic philosophy. But would Plato have been likely to place
382 Intro | word of explanation, could Plato assign to them the refutation
383 Intro | quite inconsistent with Plato’s own relation to the Eleatics.
384 Intro | latitude we may allow to Plato in bringing together by
385 Intro | second parts. To suppose that Plato would first go out of his
386 Intro | Perhaps there is no passage in Plato showing greater metaphysical
387 Intro | will be surprised to find Plato criticizing the very conceptions
388 Intro | of the Ideas was held by Plato throughout his life in the
389 Intro | space in the entire works of Plato. Their transcendental existence
390 Intro | from the mind, in any of Plato’s writings, with the exception
391 Intro | to them is not found in Plato (compare Essay on the Platonic
392 Intro | survey of the philosophy of Plato, which would be out of place
393 Intro | Parmenides, we may remark that Plato is quite serious in his
394 Intro | the real. To suppose that Plato, at a later period of his
395 Intro | assumption. The real progress of Plato’s own mind has been partly
396 Intro | logic (Theaet., Soph.). Like Plato, he is struggling after
397 Intro | contemporary Pythagoreans. And Plato with a true instinct recognizes
398 Intro | criticized the ideas of Plato without an anachronism,
399 Intro | probably a time in the life of Plato when the ethical teaching
400 Intro | transition in the mind of Plato, to which Aristotle alludes (
401 Intro | on a previous occasion. Plato seems to imply that there
402 Intro | most remarkable passages in Plato. Few writers have ever been
403 Intro | their favourite notions. But Plato may here be said to anticipate
404 Intro | another.~It is remarkable that Plato, speaking by the mouth of
405 Intro | is the most singular in Plato. It appears to be an imitation,
406 Intro | hint is the thread by which Plato connects the two parts of
407 Intro | the treatment of them in Plato as a mere straw-splitting,
408 Intro | is hard to suppose that Plato would have furnished so
409 Intro | philosophy. We need not deny that Plato, trained in the school of
410 Intro | element in them is the aim of Plato in the Sophist. But his
411 Intro | The Being and Not-being of Plato never merge in each other,
412 Intro | obscure Megarian influence on Plato which cannot wholly be cleared
413 Intro | of Athens (Phaedr.), and Plato might have learned the Megarian
414 Intro | is the track along which Plato is leading us. Zeno had
415 Intro | the mind of Parmenides and Plato, ‘Gott-betrunkene Menschen,’
416 Intro | kind of criticism which Plato has extended to his own
417 Intro | first case, they assume that Plato means to show the impossibility
418 Intro | this is not the spirit of Plato, and could not with propriety
419 Intro | second of the two theories. Plato everywhere ridicules (perhaps
420 Intro | compare the two in detail. But Plato also goes beyond his Megarian
421 Intro | mathematics, may be doubted. That Plato and the most subtle philosopher
422 Intro | commenced in the Sophist. Plato, in urging the difficulty
423 Intro | stage of the dialogues of Plato in which he is partially
424 Intro | trustworthy accounts of Plato’s oral teaching.~To sum
425 Intro | sum up: the Parmenides of Plato is a critique, first, of
426 Intro | worked out and improved by Plato. When primary abstractions
427 Intro | The Parmenides of Plato belongs to a stage of philosophy
428 Intro | arrive at the conclusion that Plato has been using an imaginary
429 Intro | introduce into philosophy. Plato is warning us against two
430 Intro | are the deficiencies which Plato is seeking to supply in
431 Intro | not the distinction which Plato by the mouth of Parmenides
432 Intro | phraseology, the spirit of Plato had been truly understood
433 Intro | the word substance, as Plato has the notions of Unity
434 Intro | sense which we supposed. And Plato, while he criticizes the
Phaedo
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435 Intro | Aristippus, Cleombrotus, and Plato are noted as absent. Almost
436 Intro | follows pain.’ (Observe that Plato is preparing the way for
437 Intro | from the other writings of Plato, which says that first principles
438 Intro | to submit the Phaedo of Plato to the requirements of logic.
439 Intro | organized living body? or with Plato, that she has a life of
440 Intro | Nor can we wonder that Plato in the infancy of human
441 Intro | crimes which according to Plato’s merciful reckoning,—more
442 Intro | man when old, is not, as Plato supposes (Republic), more
443 Intro | Megarians to the philosophy of Plato. They arise out of the tendency
444 Intro | of the future. Often, as Plato tells us, death is accompanied ‘
445 Intro | represented by the writings of Plato, we find that many of the
446 Intro | can we fairly demand of Plato a consistency which is wanting
447 Intro | of Musaeus and Orpheus in Plato’s time, were filled with
448 Intro | than to ourselves. And as Plato readily passes from the
449 Intro | particularly in Aristotle. For Plato and Aristotle are not further
450 Intro | to mould human thought, Plato naturally cast his belief
451 Intro | Such a conception, which in Plato himself is but half expressed,
452 Intro | philosophy of modern times. But Plato had the wonders of psychology
453 Intro | in the same relation to Plato and his age, as the argument
454 Intro | that in what has preceded Plato is accommodating himself
455 Intro | But the truth is, that Plato in his argument for the
456 Intro | to find his higher self. Plato recognizes in these aspirations
457 Intro | In using this argument Plato has certainly confused the
458 Intro | retribution is accomplished Plato represents under the figures
459 Intro | have been introduced by Plato in order to show the impression
460 Intro | in Asia. The mention of Plato’s own absence seems like
461 Intro | other of the writings of Plato is the theory of them so
462 Intro | the earlier Dialogues of Plato, is an argument to the contrary.
463 Intro | the Socratic Dialogues of Plato; nor, on the other hand,
464 Intro | idea. So deeply rooted in Plato’s mind is the belief in
465 Intro | position of Socrates and Plato in the history of philosophy.
466 Intro | and ancient philosophy. Plato is not altogether satisfied
467 Intro | in all the Dialogues of Plato. The Phaedo is the tragedy
468 Intro | of subject and feeling. Plato has certainly fulfilled
469 Intro | than in those writings of Plato which describe the trial
470 Intro | last hours of Socrates in Plato. The master could not be
471 Text | Menexenus, and some others; Plato, if I am not mistaken, was
Phaedrus
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472 Intro | the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which
473 Intro | in the later writings of Plato is only introduced playfully
474 Intro | work of a great artist like Plato cannot fail in unity, and
475 Intro | rule was not observed by Plato. The Republic is divided
476 Intro | Thus the comparison of Plato’s other writings, as well
477 Intro | rhetoric. But the truth is that Plato subjects himself to no rule
478 Intro | tended to obscure some of Plato’s higher aims.~The first
479 Intro | living Greece no more.’~Plato has seized by anticipation
480 Intro | due to the imagination of Plato, and may be compared to
481 Intro | Dialogues, and the gravity of Plato has sometimes imposed upon
482 Intro | monotony of the style.~But Plato had doubtless a higher purpose
483 Intro | discussions about love, what Plato says of the loves of men
484 Intro | to ourselves the words of Plato. The use of such a parody,
485 Intro | him. Like the Scriptures, Plato admits of endless applications,
486 Intro | literary interest. And in Plato, more than in any other
487 Intro | at one time of his life Plato was quite serious in maintaining
488 Intro | exercised over the mind of Plato, we see that there was no
489 Intro | in the representation of Plato.~Thus far we may believe
490 Intro | far we may believe that Plato was serious in his conception
491 Intro | would be at variance with Plato himself and with Greek notions
492 Intro | like the other myths of Plato, describes in a figure things
493 Intro | the expression partly of Plato’s enthusiasm for the idea,
494 Intro | which were not perceived by Plato himself. For example, when
495 Intro | there is no indication in Plato’s own writings that this
496 Intro | whether the love of which Plato speaks is the love of men
497 Intro | enough away from the mind of Plato. These and similar passages
498 Intro | with the sterner rule which Plato lays down in the Laws. At
499 Intro | unmeaning to suppose that Plato, in describing the spiritual
500 Intro | the one from the other. Plato, with his great knowledge