Charmides
    Part
  1 PreF   |          perfect unity in any single Dialogue. The hypothesis of a general
  2 PreS   |         analysis to the text of each dialogue.~At the end of a long task,
  3 PreS   |             corresponds to the Greek Dialogue; nor is the English language
  4 PreS   |             greater readiness to the dialogue form. Most of the so-called
  5 PreS   |            in them. But the Platonic dialogue is a drama as well as a
  6 PreS   |              is a drama as well as a dialogue, of which Socrates is the
  7 PreS   |              that Plato intended one dialogue to succeed another, or that
  8 PreS   |           that he begins anew in one dialogue a subject which he has left
  9 PreS   |             or that even in the same dialogue he always intended the two
 10 Intro  |    speculations of Socrates.~In this Dialogue may be noted (1) The Greek
 11 Intro  |             dramatic interest of the Dialogue chiefly centres in the youth
 12 Intro  |           the thirty tyrants. In the Dialogue he is a pattern of virtue,
 13 Intro  |           doing of good actions, the dialogue passes onto the intellectual
 14 Intro  |      knowledge of good and evil. The dialogue represents a stage in the
 15 Intro  |         particular knowledge in this dialogue may be compared with a similar
 16 Text   |            TEMPERANCE~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator,


Cratylus
    Part
 17 Intro  |       metaphysical originality, this dialogue may be ranked with the best
 18 Intro  |           language put together.~The dialogue hardly derives any light
 19 Intro  |           other interlocutors in the dialogue. Does he agree with Cratylus
 20 Intro  |              over more than half the dialogue, which he seems so greatly
 21 Intro  |        comedy in the form of a prose dialogue? And what is the final result
 22 Intro  |              ideas at the end of the dialogue is merely intended to show
 23 Intro  |           the general subject of the dialogue.~We must not expect all
 24 Intro  |            expect all the parts of a dialogue of Plato to tend equally
 25 Intro  |             which is the soul of the dialogue...These remarks are applicable
 26 Intro  |           subordinate persons of the dialogue, Hermogenes and Cratylus,
 27 Intro  |             or the Euthyphro in this dialogue like the other Euthyphro,
 28 Intro  |       Euthyphro, the diviner, in the dialogue which is called after him.~
 29 Intro  |            agreed. At the end of the dialogue, he speaks as in the Symposium
 30 Intro  |       seriously. In this part of the dialogue his dread of committing
 31 Intro  |              over more than half the dialogue. But then, we remember that
 32 Intro  |          nothing in this part of the dialogue which is either weak or
 33 Intro  |             as in the main true. The dialogue is also a satire on the
 34 Intro  |          etymological portion of the dialogue stand to the serious? Granting
 35 Intro  |     evidently the main thesis of the dialogue: What is the truth, or correctness,
 36 Intro  |            In the latter part of the dialogue Socrates becomes more serious,
 37 Intro  |            Aegina.’~The place of the dialogue in the series cannot be
 38 Intro  |          spoken of at the end of the dialogue, also indicates a comparatively
 39 Text   |              CRATYLUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Hermogenes, Cratylus.~


Critias
    Part
 40 Intro  |            of Athenian names to this dialogue, and even more singular
 41 Text   |               CRITIAS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Critias, Hermocrates, Timaeus,
 42 Text(1)|                      The rest of the Dialogue of Critias has been lost.~


Crito
    Part
 43 Intro  |             or foolish.’~This little dialogue is a perfect piece of dialectic,
 44 Text   |                 CRITO~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Crito.~SCENE:


Euthydemus
    Part
 45 Intro  |             from the argument of the dialogue.~The Euthydemus is, of all
 46 Intro  |              the commencement of the Dialogue; the thesis of Protagoras,
 47 Intro  |   grammatical puzzles with which the Dialogue concludes probably contain
 48 Intro  |       Gorgias.~The characters of the Dialogue are easily intelligible.
 49 Intro  |              but that as a fact this Dialogue could not have been composed
 50 Intro  |        epilogue or conclusion of the Dialogue has been criticised as inconsistent
 51 Intro  |             of the variety which the Dialogue, like the drama, seems to
 52 Text   |            EUTHYDEMUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator
 53 Text   |           who is the narrator of the Dialogue. Crito, Cleinias, Euthydemus,


Euthyphro
    Part
 54 Intro  |             interests in this little Dialogue: (1) the dialectical development
 55 Text   |             EUTHYPHRO~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Euthyphro.~SCENE:


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 56 Pre    |            them omit the name of the dialogue from which they are taken.
 57 Pre    |           for and against a Platonic dialogue, we must not forget that
 58 Pre    |           unacquainted with a second dialogue bearing the same name. Moreover,
 59 Pre    |            or leading thought of the dialogue may be detected in Xen.
 60 Pre    |             Xenophon in an undoubted dialogue of Plato. On the other hand,
 61 Pre    |            of the genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias
 62 Pre    |    Schleiermacher has spoken of this dialogue there seems to be no sufficient
 63 Pre    |            genuineness of the extant dialogue.~Neither at this point,
 64 Intro  |             Symposium; in the latter dialogue, as in this, the relation
 65 Intro  |              practice of virtue.~The dialogue continues:—We wish to become
 66 Intro  |            sin.~In some respects the dialogue differs from any other Platonic
 67 Intro  |              Persian queens; and the dialogue has considerable dialectical
 68 Intro  |        convincing; the writer of the dialogue, whoever he was, arrives
 69 Text   |            Alcibiades~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Alcibiades, Socrates.~SOCRATES:


Gorgias
    Part
 70 Intro  |              to confine the Platonic dialogue on the Procrustean bed of
 71 Intro  |           the scope of each separate dialogue; in this way they think
 72 Intro  |             two leading ideas of the dialogue. The true and the false
 73 Intro  | judgment-seat of the gods below.~The dialogue naturally falls into three
 74 Intro  |           Thus the second act of the dialogue closes. Then Callicles appears
 75 Intro  |            to choose the higher. The dialogue terminates with a mythus
 76 Intro  |              the assumed date of the dialogue has been fixed at 405 B.C.,
 77 Intro  |                The conclusion of the Dialogue is remarkable, (1) for the
 78 Intro  |              principal points of the dialogue. Having regard (1) to the
 79 Intro  |              the main purpose of the dialogue are some other questions,
 80 Intro  |           Republic than in any other dialogue, the verbal similarity tending
 81 Intro  |          form the main theses of the dialogue.~First Thesis:—~It is a
 82 Intro  |            myth which terminates the dialogue is not the revelation, but
 83 Intro  |          manner by Protagoras in the dialogue called after him: (5) the
 84 Intro  |            only. The argument of the dialogue is frequently referred to,
 85 Text   |               GORGIAS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Callicles, Socrates, Chaerephon,


Ion
    Part
 86 Intro  |       rhapsode Ion. The theme of the Dialogue may possibly have been suggested
 87 Text   |                   ION~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Ion.~SOCRATES:


Laches
    Part
 88 Intro  |            of the main thesis of the Dialogue—‘What is Courage?’ the antagonism
 89 Intro  |         courage. In this part of the Dialogue the contrast between the
 90 Intro  |             in Socrates himself.~The Dialogue offers one among many examples
 91 Text   |            OR COURAGE~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Lysimachus, son of Aristides.


Laws
    Book
 92 1      |                BOOK I~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: An ATHENIAN STRANGER; CLEINIAS,


Lysis
    Part
 93 Intro  |            is advanced in years.~The Dialogue consists of two scenes or
 94 Intro  |       knowledge. (Compare Chrm.) The dialogue is what would be called
 95 Text   |            FRIENDSHIP~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator,


Menexenus
    Part
 96 Pre    |            them omit the name of the dialogue from which they are taken.
 97 Pre    |           for and against a Platonic dialogue, we must not forget that
 98 Pre    |           unacquainted with a second dialogue bearing the same name. Moreover,
 99 Pre    |            or leading thought of the dialogue may be detected in Xen.
100 Pre    |             Xenophon in an undoubted dialogue of Plato. On the other hand,
101 Pre    |            of the genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias
102 Pre    |    Schleiermacher has spoken of this dialogue there seems to be no sufficient
103 Pre    |            genuineness of the extant dialogue.~Neither at this point,
104 Intro  |               On the other hand, the dialogue has several Platonic traits,
105 Text   |             MENEXENUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus.~


Meno
    Part
106 Intro  |                    INTRODUCTION~This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question
107 Intro  |             flit like shadows.’~This Dialogue is an attempt to answer
108 Intro  |            concluding portion of the Dialogue. But Plato certainly does
109 Intro  |           the expression of it.~This Dialogue contains the first intimation
110 Intro  |            Some lesser points of the dialogue may be noted, such as (1)
111 Intro  |             of the characters of his dialogue, as in the case of Meno
112 Intro  |            The main character of the Dialogue is Socrates; but to the ‘
113 Intro  |              we are led to place the Dialogue at some point of time later
114 Intro  |              Timaeus or in any other dialogue, of the truths which he
115 Intro  |          Parmenides, we find in that dialogue not an exposition or defence
116 Text   |                  MENO~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Meno, Socrates, A Slave


Parmenides
    Part
117 Intro  |       Parmenides has extended to the dialogue which he calls by his name.
118 Intro  |              isolated than any other dialogue, and the design of the writer
119 Intro  |            To the latter part of the dialogue we may certainly apply the
120 Intro  |             the first portion of the dialogue is in no way defective in
121 Intro  |              the whole is a narrated dialogue, combining with the mere
122 Intro  |             depositary of the famous dialogue; but, although he receives
123 Intro  |              and second parts of the dialogue. And it is quite inconsistent
124 Intro  |             the first portion of the dialogue:—~Cephalus, of Clazomenae
125 Intro  |           who is the narrator of the dialogue, describes himself as meeting
126 Intro  |                And can they hear the dialogue?’ ‘Nothing easier; in the
127 Intro  |              asked him to repeat the dialogue. At first, he complained
128 Intro  |            in the latter part of the dialogue. He then proceeds to explain
129 Intro  |        connects the two parts of the dialogue.~The paradoxes of Parmenides
130 Intro  |        Parmenides, who, in this very dialogue, is urging Socrates, not
131 Intro  |              and second parts of the dialogue; 2ndly, the relation of
132 Intro  |             In both divisions of the dialogue the principal speaker is
133 Intro  |              and second parts of the dialogue: (1) The thesis is the same
134 Text   |            PARMENIDES~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Cephalus, Adeimantus, Glaucon,
135 Text   |    Aristoteles.~Cephalus rehearses a dialogue which is supposed to have
136 Text   |              asked him to repeat the dialogue. At first he was not very
137 Text   |          little that remained of the dialogue. Pythodorus had heard Zeno


Phaedo
    Part
138 Intro  |               beloved disciple.’ The Dialogue necessarily takes the form
139 Intro  |             intermediate part of the Dialogue, attempts to bring the doctrine
140 Intro  |             at the conclusion of the Dialogue, having ‘arrived at the
141 Intro  |            by his own creations.~The Dialogue must be read in the light
142 Intro  |             The other persons of the Dialogue may be considered under
143 Intro  |              the commencement of the Dialogue asks why ‘suicide is held
144 Intro  |          literally.~The place of the Dialogue in the series is doubtful.
145 Intro  |       Adeimantus in the Republic. No Dialogue has a greater unity of subject
146 Intro  |              the commencement of the Dialogue, the dismissal of Xanthippe,
147 Text   |                PHAEDO~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Phaedo, who is the narrator
148 Text   |           who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius.


Phaedrus
    Part
149 Intro  |           Whether the subject of the Dialogue is love or rhetoric, or
150 Intro  |            as the following—that the dialogue is not strictly confined
151 Intro  |            second to the date of the Dialogue.~There seems to be a notion
152 Intro  |              and that the unity of a dialogue requires a single subject.
153 Intro  |              to others. Nor does the dialogue appear to be a style of
154 Intro  |            his fancy wander. If each dialogue were confined to the development
155 Intro  |            appear on the face of the dialogue, nor could any controversy
156 Intro  |           arranged every part of the dialogue before he begins to write.
157 Intro  |           into which the rest of the Dialogue is worked, in parts embroidered
158 Intro  |              the commencement of the Dialogue has described as his own
159 Intro  |              of thought, there is no Dialogue superior, or perhaps equal
160 Intro  |            to the second part of the Dialogue, which is a criticism on
161 Intro  |           this latter portion of the Dialogue there are many texts which
162 Intro  |       represented in the form of the Dialogue, seem to have misled him.
163 Intro  |             prayer at the end of the Dialogue, ‘Give me beauty in the
164 Intro  |          determining the date of the Dialogue are (1) the ages of Lysias
165 Intro  |            should have to assign the Dialogue to a year not later than
166 Intro  |              ancient critics, that a dialogue which treats of love must
167 Intro  |     conclusion seems to be, that the Dialogue was written at some comparatively
168 Intro  |              the main subject of the Dialogue, may seem to merit a more
169 Intro  |           occur in the course of the Dialogue, in order to preserve the
170 Intro  |             As in the opening of the Dialogue he ridicules the interpreters
171 Text   |              PHAEDRUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Phaedrus.~SCENE:


Philebus
    Part
172 Intro  |              a laboured march in the dialogue, and a degree of confusion
173 Intro  |              to external life in the dialogue, or references to contemporary
174 Intro  |              than any other Platonic dialogue. Here, as Plato expressly
175 Intro  |          renders the progress of the dialogue difficult to follow. A few
176 Intro  |      connected with one another. The dialogue is not rightly entitled ‘
177 Intro  |             of the Ideas in the same dialogue. Nor in the Philebus is
178 Intro  |             allowed to interpret one dialogue of Plato by another, the
179 Text   |              PHILEBUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Protarchus, Philebus.~


Protagoras
    Part
180 Intro  |             the Socratic circle. The dialogue commences with a request
181 Intro  |           drawn out in an imaginary ‘dialogue within a dialogue,’ conducted
182 Intro  |         imaginary ‘dialogue within a dialogue,’ conducted by Socrates
183 Intro  |            of all the persons in the Dialogue meeting at any one time,
184 Intro  |            with himself; or that the Dialogue fails in unity, and has
185 Intro  |           himself, at the end of the Dialogue, is disposed to concede);
186 Intro  |            in the latter part of the Dialogue, when Socrates is arguing
187 Intro  |              of Socrates, and of the Dialogue, is to show the unity of
188 Intro  |            be taught; the end of the Dialogue returns to the beginning.
189 Intro  |             in the first part of the Dialogue, and completely in the second.
190 Intro  |              the commencement of the Dialogue, Socrates sets up the proverbial
191 Intro  |              at the beginning of the Dialogue all play a part more or
192 Intro  |          irreligious teacher in this Dialogue. Also it may be observed
193 Text   |            PROTAGORAS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator
194 Text   |           who is the narrator of the Dialogue to his Companion. Hippocrates,


The Republic
    Book
195 1      |             OPPOSITES~Persons of the Dialogue~SOCRATES, who is the narrator.
196 1      |           the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates
197 3      |        passages are omitted, and the dialogue only left. ~That also, he


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
198 Pre    |      secretary, Mr. Knight.~That the Dialogue which goes by the name of
199 Pre    |          tone and phraseology of the Dialogue (compare opos melesei tis...
200 Pre    |       interest in the subject of the dialogue; and it is a good example
201 Text   |            Alcibiades~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Alcibiades.~


The Sophist
    Part
202 Intro  |            is the protagonist in the dialogue which is called by his name.
203 Intro  |              to him in the preceding dialogue. He is no longer under the
204 Intro  |            ugly face. But in neither dialogue, any more than in the Timaeus,
205 Intro  |            points of interest in the dialogue are: (I) the character attributed
206 Intro  |             men.~The Sophist, in the dialogue which is called after him,
207 Intro  |           resolution. The aim of the dialogue is to show how the few elemental
208 Intro  |                 In commenting on the dialogue in which Plato most nearly
209 Text   |               SOPHIST~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Theodorus, Theaetetus,


The Statesman
    Part
210 Intro  |             same subject in a single dialogue. In the Sophist and Statesman
211 Intro  |              of words with which the dialogue opens; or the clumsy joke
212 Intro  |         slightly, partly because the dialogue is shorter, and also because
213 Intro  |             political aspects of the dialogue; (4) the satirical and paradoxical
214 Intro  |       connexion with the rest of the dialogue—the myth is intended to
215 Intro  |              with the political; the dialogue might have been designated
216 Intro  |           all of which occur in this dialogue alone: though he is also
217 Intro  |             political aspects of the dialogue are closely connected with
218 Intro  |          loose framework of a single dialogue Plato has thus combined
219 Intro  |           arise in the course of the dialogue, which may with advantage
220 Text   |             STATESMAN~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Theodorus, Socrates, The


The Symposium
    Part
221 Intro  |         statue,’ while the companion Dialogue of the Phaedrus is marked
222 Intro  |            really the narrative of a dialogue between himself and Diotima.
223 Intro  |            which is given him in the Dialogue bearing his name, is half-sophist,
224 Intro  |             Lysias, occurring in the Dialogue called the Phaedrus. This
225 Intro  |           speech takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and a mysterious
226 Intro  |               the composition of the Dialogue will probably fall between
227 Text   |             SYMPOSIUM~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Apollodorus, who repeats
228 Text   |         repeats to his companion the dialogue which he had heard from


Theaetetus
    Part
229 Intro  |            himself at the end of the dialogue, with the Sophist, to which
230 Intro  |      Secondly, the later date of the dialogue is confirmed by the absence
231 Intro  |       between youth and manhood, the dialogue could not have been written
232 Intro  |              probably imply that the dialogue which is called by his name
233 Intro  |             with the Gorgias, either dialogue from different points of
234 Intro  |           reminded at the end of the dialogue. Yet we may observe that
235 Intro  |              the authenticity of the dialogue (compare Symposium, Phaedo,
236 Intro  |         battle of Corinth and of the dialogue, is a disciple of Theodorus,
237 Intro  |        verified in the course of the dialogue. His courage is shown by
238 Intro  |            is present throughout the dialogue. He is the true prophet
239 Intro  |            thoughts, run through the dialogue. The snubnosedness of Theaetetus,
240 Intro  |             words. At the end of the dialogue, as in the Euthyphro, he
241 Intro  |    characters and in the design.~The dialogue is an enquiry into the nature
242 Intro  |           break in the middle of the dialogue. At the commencement of
243 Intro  |         keeping with the rest of the dialogue. The philosopher naturally
244 Intro  |              The greater part of the dialogue is devoted to setting up
245 Intro  |             and in what parts of the dialogue, Plato is expressing his
246 Intro  |              which are cited in this dialogue, ‘Man is the measure of
247 Intro  |           than with Socrates, in the dialogue which is called by his name.
248 Intro  |             a modern writer. In this dialogue a great part of the answer
249 Intro  |           times in the course of the dialogue he rejects explanations
250 Intro  |         scattered up and down in the dialogue. Such, for example, as (
251 Text   |            THEAETETUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Theodorus, Theaetetus.~
252 Text   |             enter the house, and the dialogue is read to them by a servant.~


Timaeus
    Part
253 Intro  |              supposed depths of this dialogue the Neo-Platonists found
254 Intro  |               first of all, that the dialogue is put into the mouth of
255 Intro  |              the subject (Tim.). The dialogue is primarily concerned with
256 Intro  |             in the first half of the dialogue. The construction of the
257 Intro  |            contain an outline of the dialogue: (2) I shall consider the
258 Intro  |              certainty interpret one dialogue by another; e.g. the Timaeus
259 Intro  |           what is probable only. The dialogue is put into the mouth of
260 Intro  |           inspired by a study of the dialogue, than to refer to other
261 Intro  |             the first portion of the dialogue, is preserved in several
262 Intro  |         omitting the introduction or dialogue and making a few small additions.
263 Text   |               TIMAEUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Critias, Timaeus,