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(...) Phaedrus
Part
501 Intro | the higher love, of which Plato speaks, is the subject,
502 Intro | fairest works of Greek art, Plato ever conceived himself to
503 Intro | prolific in hard names. When Plato has sufficiently put them
504 Intro | literature in the age of Plato was degenerating into sophistry
505 Intro | latter view has probably led Plato to the paradox that speech
506 Intro | compared in the manner which Plato suggests. The contrast of
507 Intro | believe to have passed before Plato’s mind when he affirmed
508 Intro | years before the birth of Plato. The first of the two great
509 Intro | Isocrates was thirty and Plato twenty-three years of age,
510 Intro | not to reflect how easily Plato can ‘invent Egyptians or
511 Intro | himself is the enemy of Plato and his school? No arguments
512 Intro | inappropriateness of the characters of Plato. (Else, perhaps, it might
513 Intro | Isocrates than of Lysias.) But Plato makes use of names which
514 Intro | attached to the argument that Plato must have visited Egypt
515 Intro | late but unknown period of Plato’s life, after he had deserted
516 Intro | remarkable as showing that Plato was entirely free from what
517 Intro | mythology hidden meanings. Plato, with a truer instinct,
518 Intro | also a poetical sense in Plato, which enable him to discard
519 Intro | who honour them on earth, Plato intends to represent an
520 Intro | appreciate the dialogues of Plato, especially the Phaedrus,
521 Intro | of the main purposes of Plato in the Phaedrus is to satirize
522 Intro | of wealth or power; but Plato finds nothing wholesome
523 Intro | were very distasteful to Plato, who esteemed genius far
524 Intro | overspread all Hellas; and Plato with prophetic insight may
Philebus
Part
525 Intro | of the later writings of Plato, in which the style has
526 Intro | ignorance of the opinions which Plato is attacking is also an
527 Intro | enable us to supply what Plato has not told us; or to explain,
528 Intro | are we able to say how far Plato in the Philebus conceives
529 Intro | progress in the philosophy of Plato. The transcendental theory
530 Intro | all the later writings of Plato, the element of love is
531 Intro | Platonic dialogue. Here, as Plato expressly tells us, he is ‘
532 Intro | to be the ideal at which Plato aims in his later dialogues.
533 Intro | philosophy and poetry in Plato’s own mind, or perhaps,
534 Intro | all the later writings of Plato, there are not wanting thoughts
535 Intro | longer a stumbling-block.~Plato’s difficulty seems to begin
536 Intro | difficulties are raised, Plato seems prepared to desert
537 Intro | notion of modern science.~Plato describes with ludicrous
538 Intro | in the Republic. To this Plato opposes the revelation from
539 Intro | to have imparted to us. Plato is speaking of two things—(
540 Intro | the contradiction, like Plato’s, only begins in a higher
541 Intro | Many.’~II. 1. The first of Plato’s categories or elements
542 Intro | To a Greek of the age of Plato, the idea of an infinite
543 Intro | they make the discovery, as Plato has done in the Sophist,
544 Intro | wrong in attributing to Plato the conception of laws of
545 Intro | third class. First, that Plato seems to be unconscious
546 Intro | well as in the Republic, Plato conceives beauty under the
547 Intro | finite and infinite, to which Plato ascribes the order of the
548 Intro | of conceiving God.~a. To Plato, the idea of God or mind
549 Intro | thing and a person, while to Plato, by the help of various
550 Intro | which is His work. But Plato, though not a Pantheist,
551 Intro | of pleasure and wisdom. Plato has been saying that we
552 Intro | after their kinds.~III. 1. Plato speaks of pleasure as indefinite,
553 Intro | nevertheless real goods, and Plato rightly regards them as
554 Intro | philosophy which has passed away. Plato himself seems to have suspected
555 Intro | Aristotle, who agrees with Plato in many points, e.g. in
556 Intro | he is also in advance of Plato; for he affirms that pleasure
557 Intro | generation (Nic. Eth.).~4. Plato attempts to identify vicious
558 Intro | It is difficult to acquit Plato, to use his own language,
559 Intro | expels the other. Nor does Plato seem to have considered
560 Intro | thirst which precede them. Plato’s conception is derived
561 Intro | antecedent pains, has led Plato to place under one head
562 Intro | appears to have occurred to Plato. Nor has he any distinction
563 Intro | beautiful in external things.~7. Plato agrees partially with certain ‘
564 Intro | far from being impossible. Plato’s omission to mention them
565 Intro | satisfactory in the dialogues of Plato. While the ethical nature
566 Intro | be happy who, to borrow Plato’s illustration, is leading
567 Intro | unmixed. The distinction which Plato here makes seems to be the
568 Intro | we admit of course what Plato seems to feel in his distinctions
569 Intro | further investigated.~(I) Plato seems to proceed in his
570 Intro | interpret one dialogue of Plato by another, the sciences
571 Intro | quotation from Orpheus: Plato means to say that a sixth
572 Intro | the other dialogues. Here Plato shows the same indifference
573 Intro | superficial notion may arise that Plato probably wrote shorter dialogues,
574 Intro | more easily suppose that Plato composed shorter writings
575 Intro | we should probably find Plato in the midst of the fray
576 Intro | ignorance of themselves. But Plato seems to think further that
577 Intro | thus confirmed by that of Plato, and we are therefore justified
578 Intro | view; and he, or rather Plato speaking in his person,
579 Intro | Utilitarianism). In the Philebus, Plato, although he regards the
580 Intro | many reasons why not only Plato but mankind in general have
581 Intro | so far from us—Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics,
582 Intro | that which Socrates and Plato ‘grew old in seeking’? Are
583 Intro | the age of Socrates and Plato, who, in their turn, are
584 Intro | such as the chief good of Plato, which may be best expressed
585 Intro | place for Kant or Hegel, for Plato and Aristotle alongside
586 Intro | time of the writings of Plato with the exception of the
587 Intro | element which distinguishes Plato, not only from the presocratic
588 Intro | Parmenides or Philebus of Plato, and the Physics or Metaphysics
589 Intro | transition from one to the other. Plato and Aristotle do not dovetail
590 Intro | At any rate, it is not Plato who is to be interpreted
591 Intro | Aristotle, but Aristotle by Plato. Of all philosophy and of
592 Intro | by himself.~But although Plato in the Philebus does not
593 Intro | treated of elsewhere in Plato, is here analysed with great
594 Intro | there are many things in Plato which have been lost in
595 Intro | Aristotle not to be found in Plato. The most remarkable deficiency
596 Intro | is not an advance upon Plato, but a return to the poor
597 Intro | contrasts unfavourably with Plato’s general discussion of
598 Intro | are very characteristic of Plato, and which we shall do well
599 Intro | dependence is regarded by Plato (to which modern science
600 Intro | knowledge in the age of Plato, the boldness with which
Protagoras
Part
601 Intro | several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of
602 Intro | B.C., or in any other. But Plato, like all writers of fiction,
603 Intro | they are not indicated by Plato himself, must always to
604 Intro | explanation of good as pleasure—Plato is inconsistent with himself;
605 Intro | They seem to forget that Plato is a dramatic writer who
606 Intro | In the introductory scene Plato raises the expectation that
607 Intro | leads to the inference that Plato intended to blacken the
608 Intro | suppose that in all this Plato is depicting an imaginary
609 Intro | irresistible here, as everywhere in Plato, in his intellectual superiority.~
610 Intro | Protagoras been allowed by Plato to make the Aristotelian
611 Intro | than one opposite; or with Plato himself in the Phaedo to
612 Intro | the indications given by Plato himself. But it seems likely
613 Intro | The general treatment in Plato both of the Poets and the
614 Intro | therefore, to be regarded as Plato’s satire on the tedious
615 Intro | Socrates that he knew nothing. Plato means to say that virtue
616 Intro | Aristotle remarks, Socrates and Plato outstep the truth—they make
617 Intro | variance with the spirit of Plato himself. Yet, in this, Plato
618 Intro | Plato himself. Yet, in this, Plato is only following the historical
619 Intro | to the other Dialogues of Plato. That it is one of the earlier
The Second Alcibiades
Part
620 Pre | claim to be ascribed to Plato. They are examples of Platonic
621 Pre | or third generation after Plato, when his writings were
622 Pre | unknown among the followers of Plato. The Eryxias was doubted
623 Pre | is a genuine writing of Plato will not be maintained by
624 Pre | entirely in the spirit of Plato (compare Protag; Ion; Apol.).
625 Pre | acquainted with the ‘Laws’ of Plato (compare Laws). An incident
The Seventh Letter
Part
626 Text | PLATO TO THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS
627 Text | addressed this question to me: “Plato, I have come to you as a
628 Text | extraordinarily attached to Plato. What were the facts about
629 Text | as follows: “Dionysios to Plato,” here followed the customary
630 Text | presence I know and remember. “Plato,” he said, “I am trying
631 Text | disturbed. Theodotes said, “Plato, you were present yesterday
The Sophist
Part
632 Intro | power of the dialogues of Plato appears to diminish as the
633 Intro | dialogues to the later ones. Plato is conscious of the change,
634 Intro | here is the place at which Plato most nearly approaches to
635 Intro | impossible. It has been said that Plato would have written differently,
636 Intro | Aristotle, but by Socrates and Plato. The summa genera of thought,
637 Intro | employed in the dialogues of Plato. The ‘slippery’ nature of
638 Intro | error. As in the Timaeus, Plato seems to intimate by the
639 Intro | dialogues.~I. The Sophist in Plato is the master of the art
640 Intro | representative of all that Plato most disliked in the moral
641 Intro | growing in the fancy of Plato, now boastful, now eristic,
642 Intro | are not to suppose that Plato intended by such a description
643 Intro | Crat.), but an ideal of Plato’s in which the falsehood
644 Intro | of the rest of mankind. Plato ridicules the notion that
645 Intro | the Platonic writings. For Plato is not justifying the Sophists
646 Intro | considered. The great enemy of Plato is the world, not exactly
647 Intro | indifferently to Socrates and Plato, as well as to Gorgias and
648 Intro | the word by the genius of Plato; (3) that the principal
649 Intro | century before Christ. In Plato himself the term is applied
650 Intro | have included Socrates and Plato, as well as Gorgias and
651 Intro | applied to Socrates and Plato, either the application
652 Intro | which it is used is neutral. Plato, Xenophon, Isocrates, Aristotle,
653 Intro | Sophist’ in the dialogues of Plato also shows that the bad
654 Intro | attached to them. The genius of Plato could not have stamped the
655 Intro | improbable in supposing that Plato may have extended and envenomed
656 Intro | them; and the witness of Plato in their favour is probably
657 Intro | down to their credit, that Plato nowhere attributes to them
658 Intro | in the Socratic circle. Plato delights to exhibit them
659 Intro | the earlier dialogues. But Plato could not altogether give
660 Intro | here seems to blend with Plato’s usual description of the
661 Intro | ordinary sense of the term. And Plato does not on this ground
662 Intro | perhaps in the Euthydemus of Plato, we find no other trace
663 Intro | is detected and verified. Plato himself seems to be aware
664 Intro | conceived than this. So far is Plato from supposing that mere
665 Intro | guide men into all truth.~Plato does not really mean to
666 Intro | seriously consider whether Plato was right in assuming that
667 Intro | trace of this reflection in Plato. But neither is there any
668 Intro | metaphorical language of Plato, became in turn the tyrant
669 Intro | better than those which Plato satirizes in the Euthydemus.
670 Intro | and negation, from which Plato himself is not entirely
671 Intro | greater importance which Plato attributes to this fallacy,
672 Intro | into errors. And this is Plato’s reply, both in the Cratylus
673 Intro | appeal to common sense, Plato propounds for our consideration
674 Intro | to observe, first, that Plato does not identify Being
675 Intro | trace the manner in which Plato arrived at his conception
676 Intro | all the later dialogues of Plato, the idea of mind or intelligence
677 Intro | construction of the world, Plato, in the Philebus, the Sophist,
678 Intro | thought of the later works of Plato. The human mind is a sort
679 Intro | language of Parmenides, Plato replies in a strain equally
680 Intro | negative. The conception of Plato, in the days before logic,
681 Intro | principle of contradiction. Plato, as far as we know, is the
682 Intro | of the negative given by Plato in the Sophist is a true
683 Intro | are inextricably blended.~Plato restricts the conception
684 Intro | same mental phenomenon. For Plato has not distinguished between
685 Intro | cannot be much surprised that Plato should have made classes
686 Intro | great service rendered by Plato to metaphysics in the Sophist,
687 Intro | the false and apparent, so Plato appears to identify negation
688 Intro | do less than justice to Plato,—because the truth which
689 Intro | The later dialogues of Plato contain many references
690 Intro | young and old,’ of whom Plato speaks, probably include
691 Intro | characteristics are found in Plato:—~1. They pursue verbal
692 Intro | this remarkable expression Plato designates those who more
693 Intro | determining except from Plato’s description of them. His
694 Intro | incapable of reasoning; and Plato would hardly have described
695 Intro | on the dialogue in which Plato most nearly approaches the
696 Intro | ancient thinkers in the age of Plato: How could one thing be
697 Intro | anything. To these difficulties Plato finds what to us appears
698 Intro | determination is negation. Plato takes or gives so much of
699 Intro | several of the later dialogues Plato is occupied with the connexion
700 Intro | when the anticipation of Plato can be realized. Though
701 Intro | in the world and in man.~Plato arranges in order the stages
702 Intro | account of dialectic given by Plato in the Sixth Book of the
703 Intro | connected with one another. In Plato we find, as we might expect,
704 Intro | are many speculations of Plato which would have passed
705 Intro | example, in the Sophist Plato begins with the abstract
706 Intro | is so full of meaning to Plato and Hegel.~They differ however
707 Intro | regarding the question. For Plato is answering a difficulty;
708 Intro | may be done away with. But Plato, unlike Hegel, nowhere bases
709 Intro | to him the words in which Plato describes the Pre-Socratic
710 Intro | original nothingness. For, like Plato, he ‘leaves no stone unturned’
711 Intro | ethics, foreshadowed in Plato, was finally established
712 Intro | progress of opposites in Plato, who in the Symposium denies
713 Intro | Leaving the comparison with Plato we may now consider the
714 Intro | intelligences of mankind—Plato, Dante, Sir Thomas More—
715 Intro | pendulum. Even in Aristotle and Plato, rightly understood, we
716 Intro | thoughts of Socrates and Plato and Aristotle have certainly
717 Intro | as Hegel. The language of Plato or even of Aristotle is
718 Intro | philosophy, the spirit of Plato and Socrates, rebels against
719 Intro | the help of the demigods’ (Plato, Tim.), or with ‘a golden
The Statesman
Part
720 Intro | observe the tendency of Plato to combine two or more subjects
721 Intro | appear under old names. Plato is now chiefly concerned,
722 Intro | the mind of the reader. Plato apologizes for his tediousness,
723 Intro | to a Phrygian or Lydian. Plato glories in this impartiality
724 Intro | Socrates was a lesson which Plato was not slow in learning—
725 Intro | politics than any other of Plato’s writings. The city of
726 Intro | the political idealism of Plato soars into a region beyond;
727 Intro | political problems with which Plato’s mind is occupied. He treats
728 Intro | to the other writings of Plato; lastly (7), we may briefly
729 Intro | remarkable phenomena. Nor is Plato, here or elsewhere, wanting
730 Intro | of the devices by which Plato, like a modern novelist,
731 Intro | in the later writings of Plato, when compared with the
732 Intro | reason to expect that all Plato’s visions of a former, any
733 Intro | philosophical lessons which Plato presents to us in this veiled
734 Intro | theologians and philosophers, Plato relegates his explanation
735 Intro | them by divine help. Thus Plato may be said to represent
736 Intro | no one knew better than Plato that the introduction of
737 Intro | be satisfied to find in Plato a statement of the difficulties
738 Intro | were doubtless indicated to Plato’s own mind, as the corresponding
739 Intro | age to disparage them. Plato’s ‘prudens quaestio’ respecting
740 Intro | Statesman seems to contend in Plato’s mind with the political;
741 Intro | the earlier writings of Plato is a revival of the Socratic
742 Intro | new directions of enquiry. Plato seems to be conscious of
743 Intro | found in Aristotle, but in Plato.~The doctrine that virtue
744 Intro | asserted in the Statesman of Plato. The too much and the too
745 Intro | measuring.~In the Theaetetus, Plato remarks that precision in
746 Intro | is a great part of power. Plato does not trouble himself
747 Intro | remark is characteristic of Plato’s later style.~The king
748 Intro | modern theologians, and by Plato himself, of the Supreme
749 Intro | of which are noticed by Plato:—first, because all good
750 Intro | and this is the spirit of Plato in the Statesman. But he
751 Intro | might be, what is. And thus Plato seems to stumble, almost
752 Intro | education (compare Laws). Plato is strongly of opinion that
753 Intro | other. As in the Republic, Plato has observed that there
754 Intro | virtue, and not many: now Plato is inclined to think that
755 Intro | framework of a single dialogue Plato has thus combined two distinct
756 Intro | the execution of his plan Plato has invented or distinguished
757 Intro | But in the Statesman of Plato, as in the New Testament,
758 Intro | varieties of circumstances. Plato is fond of picturing the
759 Intro | king; but neither they nor Plato had arrived at the conception
760 Intro | head either of God or man.~Plato and Aristotle are sensible
761 Intro | of the many. According to Plato, he is a physician who has
762 Intro | more evils than it cures. Plato is aware of the imperfection
763 Intro | best. What the best is, Plato does not attempt to determine;
764 Intro | Statesman is characteristic of Plato’s later style, in which
765 Intro | not venture to say that Plato was soured by old age, but
766 Intro | cranes and all other animals. Plato cannot help laughing (compare
767 Intro | statesman, but assumes his form. Plato sees that the ideal of the
768 Intro | on the scene: in the Laws Plato appears to have forgotten
769 Intro | connexion which is assumed by Plato to exist between politics
770 Intro | the end of the Republic, Plato touches on the subject of
771 Intro | as an undoubted work of Plato. The detailed consideration
772 Intro | them to other dialogues of Plato are such as might be expected
773 Intro | form is characteristic of Plato’s later style.~3. The close
774 Intro | on a presumption that in Plato’s writings we may expect
775 Intro | progress in the mind of Plato. And the appearance of change
776 Intro | the earlier writings of Plato from the Laws. And the Theaetetus,
777 Text | adept at the airy life. (Plato is here introducing a new
The Symposium
Part
778 Intro | INTRODUCTION~Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most
779 Intro | interrogated about them. Yet Plato was not a mystic, nor in
780 Intro | other of his Dialogues, Plato is emancipated from former
781 Intro | things in the Symposium of Plato than any commentator has
782 Intro | hears. The Symposium of Plato is a work of this character,
783 Intro | applied to all the writings of Plato, is especially applicable
784 Intro | finite and infinite.~But Plato seems also to be aware that
785 Intro | consciously or unconsciously, in Plato’s doctrine of love.~The
786 Intro | Ethics). So naturally does Plato mingle jest and earnest,
787 Intro | distinctions are not found in Plato; —they are the points of
788 Intro | extremely confused and pedantic. Plato is attacking the logical
789 Intro | Like the sophists and like Plato himself, though in a different
790 Intro | there is no hint given that Plato is specially referring to
791 Intro | beginning, but a lame ending.’~Plato transposes the two next
792 Intro | his love of Beatrice, so Plato would have us absorb all
793 Intro | theme of the Symposium of Plato. And as there is no impossibility
794 Intro | is a ‘mystery’ in which Plato also obscurely intimates
795 Intro | has a ridiculous element (Plato’s Symp.), and is a subject
796 Intro | moral reprobation (compare Plato’s Symp.). It is also used
797 Intro | compare Xen. Symp.). Nor does Plato feel any repugnance, such
798 Intro | Athenaeus), was not perceived by Plato himself. We are still more
799 Intro | is not a mere fiction of Plato’s, but seems actually to
800 Intro | Vit. It is observable that Plato never in the least degree
801 Intro | friendships are spoken of by Plato in a manner different from
802 Intro | adduce the authority of Plato either for or against such
803 Intro | Peloponnesian wars, or of Plato and the Orators, than England
804 Intro | stimulus to good (compare Plato, Laws, where he says that
805 Intro | been present to the mind of Plato in the description of the
806 Intro | the forty-fourth year of Plato’s life. The Symposium cannot
807 Intro | are the only Dialogues of Plato in which the theme of love
808 Intro | the human mind is capable. Plato does not go on to ask whether
809 Intro | compare Phaedrus). But Plato does not distinguish the
810 Intro | of the other writings of Plato, throw a doubt on the genuineness
811 Intro | show that he wrote against Plato, and was acquainted with
Theaetetus
Part
812 Intro | ANALYSIS~Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character
813 Intro | connexion, indicated by Plato himself at the end of the
814 Intro | explained by the residence of Plato at Megara. Socrates disclaims
815 Intro | written earlier than 390, when Plato was about thirty-nine years
816 Intro | retain the order in which Plato himself has arranged this
817 Intro | reference to other works of Plato, that the Theaetetus may
818 Intro | views to the student of Plato; none of them can lay claim
819 Intro | the narrated dialogues of Plato, and is the only one which
820 Intro | been a spot familiar to Plato (for Megara was within a
821 Intro | Yet we may observe that Plato has himself forgotten this,
822 Intro | is made of the device. As Plato himself remarks, who in
823 Intro | on the mention of him in Plato. According to a confused
824 Intro | of Socrates, and then of Plato, he is said to have written
825 Intro | division of roots, which Plato attributes to him, and the
826 Intro | uncertain how far he can trust Plato’s account of the theory
827 Intro | what parts of the dialogue, Plato is expressing his own opinion.
828 Intro | mixed up the Protagoras of Plato, as they have the Socrates
829 Intro | they have the Socrates of Plato, with the real person.~Returning
830 Intro | obtained, we may remark, that Plato had ‘The Truth’ of Protagoras
831 Intro | discovered or invented by Plato. On the other hand, the
832 Intro | question may be raised, how far Plato in the Theaetetus could
833 Intro | criticizing the Protagoras of Plato, and not attempting to draw
834 Intro | sentiments and those which Plato has attributed to him.~2.
835 Intro | seemed quite as untenable to Plato as to a modern writer. In
836 Intro | is really a criticism of Plato on himself and his own criticism
837 Intro | character of the writings of Plato. There are two, or more,
838 Intro | For we cannot suppose that Plato conceived a definition of
839 Intro | accomplished.~The writings of Plato belong to an age in which
840 Intro | Eristic. The contemporaries of Plato and Socrates were vainly
841 Intro | the eyes of Socrates and Plato. And besides these, we find
842 Intro | in the later writings of Plato, especially in the Theaetetus,
843 Intro | to these persons, in whom Plato may perhaps have blended
844 Intro | and defined. In the age of Plato, the limits of the world
845 Intro | nature of the universe.~Plato, in his Theaetetus, gathers
846 Intro | thought. To such a philosophy Plato, in the Theaetetus, offers
847 Intro | sensible perception, by which Plato seems to mean the generalized
848 Intro | placed in the same class by Plato (Soph.); and the same principle
849 Intro | regarded as the Materialists of Plato, denied the reality of sensation.
850 Intro | sensation’ is identified by Plato with the Protagorean thesis
851 Intro | and convenient phrases.~Plato appears to treat Protagoras
852 Intro | by Aristotle as well as Plato with the flux of Heracleitus.
853 Intro | Aristotle is only following Plato, and Plato, as we have already
854 Intro | only following Plato, and Plato, as we have already seen,
855 Intro | remember throughout that Plato is not speaking of Heracleitus,
856 Intro | Heracleitus which at all justifies Plato’s account of him. His philosophy
857 Intro | sensible perception such as Plato attributes to him; nor is
858 Intro | Heracliteanism was sunk in the age of Plato. He never said that ‘change
859 Intro | great philosophers, and with Plato and Aristotle themselves,
860 Intro | of sense. In this manner Plato describes the process of
861 Intro | of reflection and reason. Plato attempts to clear up this
862 Intro | opinion is explained by Plato at first as a confusion
863 Intro | all forms of error; and Plato has excluded himself from
864 Intro | anywhere and everywhere. Plato discards both figures, as
865 Intro | persuading another who has not. Plato would have done better if
866 Intro | would be impossible. And has Plato kept altogether clear of
867 Intro | terms to a proposition.~Plato, in the spirit of the Megarian
868 Intro | which is not recognized by Plato; viz. that truth and thought
869 Intro | certainty of knowledge. Plato does not mention the greater
870 Intro | philosophers in the age of Plato thought of science only
871 Intro | structure can begin to rise. Plato saw the necessity of combating
872 Intro | like. It is remarkable how Plato in the Theaetetus, after
873 Intro | of points or moments. As Plato remarks in the Cratylus,
874 Intro | this is the way along which Plato is leading us in his later
875 Intro | of Aristotle as well as Plato, and the reality to which
876 Intro | For Aristotle as well as Plato would in modern phraseology
877 Intro | meaning.~Yet, in spite of Plato and his followers, mankind
878 Intro | the doctrine attributed by Plato to Protagoras, that the
879 Intro | follows, first of all, like Plato in the Theaetetus, to analyse
880 Intro | impression, sugkechumenon ti, as Plato says (Republic), until number
881 Intro | Aristotle (partly following Plato) supposes God to be the
882 Intro | place’ or ‘the infinite.’ To Plato, in the Timaeus, it is known
883 Intro | been as unintelligible to Plato as his a priori synthetical
884 Intro | illusion, we may well ask with Plato, ‘What becomes of the mind?’~
885 Intro | one instant. But then, as Plato asks,—and we must repeat
886 Intro | opinions of the world; it is Plato who rises above them: the
887 Intro | pote epistemen genesthai; Plato Republic.~Monon gar auto
888 Intro | points in the Theaetetus of Plato,—the oldest work on Psychology
889 Intro | thought. In the Theaetetus of Plato it has not yet become fixed:
890 Intro | was a minute ago, is, as Plato implies in the Theaetetus,
891 Intro | these, in the language of Plato, ‘we shamelessly use, without
892 Intro | already present to us; in Plato’s words, we set the stamp
Timaeus
Part
893 Intro | ANALYSIS~Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most
894 Intro | variance with the spirit of Plato. Believing that he was inspired
895 Intro | another—between Aristotle and Plato, or between the serious
896 Intro | the serious thoughts of Plato and his passing fancies.
897 Intro | at all. Yet the genius of Plato and Greek philosophy reacted
898 Intro | with the interpretation of Plato, and in spirit they are
899 Intro | the so-called mysticism of Plato is purely Greek, arising
900 Intro | with modern interpreters of Plato is the tendency to regard
901 Intro | system. We do not know how Plato would have arranged his
902 Intro | in the Phaedo. Nor does Plato himself attribute any importance
903 Intro | can hardly suppose that Plato would have preferred the
904 Intro | in the other dialogues of Plato, and he himself regards
905 Intro | divine mind (Phil.) which in Plato is hardly separable from
906 Intro | passages like these that Plato is referring when he speaks
907 Intro | his own age.~We are led by Plato himself to regard the Timaeus,
908 Intro | we are uncertain whether Plato is expressing his own opinions,
909 Intro | of imagination, in which Plato, without naming them, gathers
910 Intro | and for some growth in Plato’s own mind, the discrepancy
911 Intro | some passages sublime. But Plato has not the same mastery
912 Intro | clumsiness in the Timaeus of Plato which characterizes the
913 Intro | repetition than occurs in Plato’s earlier writings. The
914 Intro | attribute the want of plan. Plato had not the command of his
915 Intro | not easy to determine how Plato’s cosmos may be presented
916 Intro | significance to the mind of Plato than language of a neutral
917 Intro | presented themselves to Plato and his age, and the elements
918 Intro | psychology, (6) the physiology of Plato, and (7) his analysis of
919 Intro | may examine in what points Plato approaches or anticipates
920 Intro | Heraclitean fanatics whom Plato has ridiculed in the Theaetetus,
921 Intro | But the contemporary of Plato and Socrates was incapable
922 Intro | Nor are there wanting in Plato, who was himself too often
923 Intro | subject, and against which Plato in his later dialogues seems
924 Intro | tended to perplex them. Plato’s doctrine of the same and
925 Intro | observation were limited. Plato probably did more for physical
926 Intro | requirements of thought.~Section 3.~Plato’s account of the soul is
927 Intro | discuss at length how far Plato agrees in the later Jewish
928 Intro | with ideas. According to Plato in the Timaeus, God took
929 Intro | there is no truth of which Plato is more firmly convinced
930 Intro | spontaneity. The Creator in Plato is still subject to a remnant
931 Intro | remains in his own nature. Plato is more sensible than the
932 Intro | is in reality, whether in Plato or in Kant, a mere negative
933 Intro | 1) that to the mind of Plato subject and object were
934 Intro | again that we cannot follow Plato in all his inconsistencies,
935 Intro | can we hope to understand Plato from his own point of view;
936 Intro | for thought in the view of Plato is equivalent to truth or
937 Intro | disease in man.~But what did Plato mean by essence, (Greek),
938 Intro | world, was lingering in Plato’s mind. The Other is the
939 Intro | itself.—So far the words of Plato may perhaps find an intelligible
940 Intro | have already remarked that Plato was not acquainted with
941 Intro | words the parable in which Plato has wrapped up his conception
942 Intro | to the Pythagoreans and Plato; (2) the order and distances
943 Intro | Martin, who supposes that Plato is only speaking of surfaces
944 Intro | may be objected, (1) that Plato nowhere says that his proportion
945 Intro | numbers was known to him. What Plato chiefly intends to express
946 Intro | prosperity of mortals. But Plato delights to think of God
947 Intro | the ideal and the sensible Plato interposes the two natures
948 Intro | extension. (We remark that Plato does away with the above
949 Intro | and were very familiar to Plato, as we gather from the Parmenides.
950 Intro | his mind.~Space is said by Plato to be the ‘containing vessel
951 Intro | that sort of consistency to Plato which has been given to
952 Intro | Latin ‘spatium.’ Neither Plato nor any other Greek would
953 Intro | even eternal nature; and Plato seems more willing to admit
954 Intro | Hence it was natural for Plato to conceive of it as eternal.
955 Intro | traces of the elements. These Plato, like Empedocles, supposed
956 Intro | confusion (Greek) which preceded Plato does not attempt further
957 Intro | surfaces which he has formed Plato proceeds to generate the
958 Intro | of another kind. Probably Plato notices this as the only
959 Intro | universe.’ According to Plato earth was composed of cubes,
960 Intro | however Laws). Yet perhaps Plato may regard these sides or
961 Intro | therefore, according to Plato, a particle of water when
962 Intro | reunion of them in new forms. Plato himself proposes the question,
963 Intro | physical phenomena from which Plato has gathered his views of
964 Intro | to water, earth to earth. Plato’s doctrine of attraction
965 Intro | summed up as follows: (1) Plato supposes the greater masses
966 Intro | Greek). Like the atomists, Plato attributes the differences
967 Intro | Section 4.~The astronomy of Plato is based on the two principles
968 Intro | unable to expel, and of which Plato cannot tell us the origin.
969 Intro | origin. The creation, in Plato’s sense, is really the creation
970 Intro | to attribute to many of Plato’s words in the Timaeus any
971 Intro | forming the soul of the world.~Plato was struck by the phenomenon
972 Intro | spot around an axis, which Plato calls the movement of thought
973 Intro | the wandering stars, as Plato himself terms them in the
974 Intro | perfect or intelligent. Yet Plato also speaks of an ‘annus
975 Intro | produced by the seven planets. Plato seems to confuse the actual
976 Intro | immobility of the earth. Plato’s doctrine on this subject
977 Intro | Aristotle attributed to Plato the doctrine of the rotation
978 Intro | which it may be replied that Plato never says that the earth
979 Intro | difficult to imagine that Plato was unaware of the consequence.
980 Intro | and obvious, is just what Plato often seems to be ignorant
981 Intro | if, as Mr Grote assumes, Plato did not see that the rotation
982 Intro | more in accordance with Plato’s other writings than the
983 Intro | the earth. The silence of Plato in these and in some other
984 Intro | literally true according to Plato’s view. For the alternation
985 Intro | either of the doctrine of Plato or of the sense which he
986 Intro | Greek). For the citations of Plato in Aristotle are frequently
987 Intro | from which we are defending Plato.~After weighing one against
988 Intro | are inclined to believe, Plato thought that the earth was
989 Intro | how they were imagined by Plato, if he had any fixed or
990 Intro | anthropomorphism blend with Plato’s highest flights of idealism.
991 Intro | the third degree; by this Plato expresses the measure of
992 Intro | however, an inconsistency in Plato’s manner of conceiving the
993 Intro | together the opposite poles of Plato’s system, we find that,
994 Intro | The liver is imagined by Plato to be a smooth and bright
995 Intro | intimations of the future. But Plato is careful to observe that
996 Intro | same irony which appears in Plato’s remark, that ‘the men
997 Intro | the council chamber, as Plato graphically calls the head,
998 Intro | physiological speculations of Plato either with ancient or modern
999 Intro | generated in an inverse order.~Plato found heat and air within
1000 Intro | description is figurative, as Plato himself implies when he