The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|            so in fact as one of the Dialogues. And we may perhaps even
  2 Intro|            is not much in the other Dialogues which can be compared with
  3 Intro|           is there any trace in the Dialogues of an attempt to make Anytus


Charmides
    Part
  4 PreF |           excellent analyses of the Dialogues, and is rich in original
  5 PreF |           and others to arrange the Dialogues of Plato into a harmonious
  6 PreF |        worked out in the successive Dialogues is an after-thought of the
  7 PreF | acknowledged as a fact, even in the Dialogues regarded by Schaarschmidt
  8 PreF |       because he has quoted several Dialogues of Plato, have quoted them
  9 PreS |        Second Edition (1875) of the Dialogues of Plato in English, I had
 10 PreS |            the Introductions to the Dialogues have been enlarged, and
 11 PreS |            affinity to the Platonic Dialogues have been introduced into
 12 PreS |            of the so-called English Dialogues are but poor imitations
 13 PreS |            the Introductions to the Dialogues there have been added some
 14 PreS | participation in them. In the later Dialogues he no longer included in
 15 PreS |      treatises of Aristotle, to the dialogues of Plato until we have ascertained
 16 PreS |     authentic form like most of the dialogues of Plato. How much of them
 17 PreS |           and although in the later dialogues and in the Laws the reference
 18 PreS |            in the first half of the Dialogues, which, according to the
 19 PreS |           later one, in the various Dialogues. They are personal and impersonal,
 20 PreS |         together different parts of dialogues in a purely arbitrary manner,
 21 PreS |           is true that a few of the dialogues, such as the Republic and
 22 PreS |         further that several of the dialogues, such as the Phaedrus, the
 23 PreS |          the argument follows’. The dialogues of Plato are like poems,
 24 PreS |     Schleiermacher of arranging the dialogues of Plato in chronological
 25 PreS |         that in the second class of dialogues, in which the ‘Later Theory
 26 PreS | distinguishes as the first class of dialogues from the second equally
 27 Intro|           in the series of Platonic dialogues, are: (i) Their shortness
 28 Intro|          belong to the class called dialogues of search (Greek), which
 29 Intro|              when compared with the dialogues of the middle and later
 30 Intro|         arrangement of the Platonic dialogues can be strictly chronological.
 31 Intro|           or allusions found in the dialogues have not been lost sight
 32 Intro|            forward in the companion dialogues of the Lysis and Laches;


Cratylus
    Part
 33 Intro|        wrote satires in the form of dialogues, and his meaning, like that
 34 Intro|             this, as in most of the dialogues of Plato, allowance has
 35 Intro|             under which some of the dialogues of Plato may be more truly
 36 Intro|          the Introduction to future dialogues, that the so-called Platonic
 37 Intro|            to depict in some of his dialogues as the Silenus Socrates;
 38 Intro|          resemblance to the earlier dialogues, especially to the Phaedrus


Euthydemus
    Part
 39 Intro|             most part latent in the dialogues of Plato. The nature of
 40 Intro|           Euthydemus is, of all the Dialogues of Plato, that in which
 41 Intro|      subject of all Plato’s earlier Dialogues. The concluding remark of
 42 Intro|    antagonism, not, as in the later Dialogues of Plato, of embittered


Euthyphro
    Part
 43 Intro|       Laches, Protagoras, and other Dialogues; the deep insight into the


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 44 Pre  |           all said to have composed dialogues; and mistakes of names are
 45 Pre  |     Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato are but a part
 46 Pre  |         passage found in the extant dialogues to any one but Plato. And
 47 Pre  |         Epistles, the Epinomis, the dialogues rejected by the ancients
 48 Pre  |        writings from Aristotle.~The dialogues which appear to have the
 49 Pre  |           to passages in the extant dialogues. From the mention of ‘Hippias’
 50 Pre  |             as in some of the other dialogues, whether the author is asserting
 51 Pre  |            character of the earlier dialogues. The resemblances or imitations
 52 Pre  |          resemblance to the earlier dialogues; the oration itself is professedly
 53 Pre  |          which, of all the disputed dialogues of Plato, has the greatest
 54 Pre  |   transparent than in the undoubted dialogues of Plato. We know, too,
 55 Pre  |           that at least five or six dialogues bearing this name passed
 56 Pre  |       degrees of genuineness in the dialogues themselves, as there are
 57 Pre  |    inimitable excellence. The three dialogues which we have offered to
 58 Pre  |           we maintain of some other dialogues, such as the Parmenides,
 59 Pre  |          bare possibility that some dialogues which are usually rejected,
 60 Intro|        resemblance to the undoubted dialogues of Plato. The process of
 61 Intro|            is none of the undoubted dialogues of Plato in which there


Gorgias
    Part
 62 Intro|      INTRODUCTION~In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen
 63 Intro|           the most irregular of the dialogues there is also a certain
 64 Intro|             endeavoured to hang the dialogues upon one another by the
 65 Intro|             them equally in all the dialogues.~There may be some advantage
 66 Intro|             Under the idea that his dialogues are finished works of art,
 67 Intro|             all the Sophists in the dialogues of Plato, he is vain and
 68 Intro|    Protagoras and Meno. As in other dialogues, he is the enemy of the
 69 Intro|            times and persons in the Dialogues of Plato, a precise dramatic
 70 Intro|           more exclusively Socratic Dialogues. But neither in them, nor
 71 Intro|             in nearly all the other dialogues of Plato, we are made aware
 72 Intro|         pleasure, which as in other dialogues is supposed to consist in
 73 Intro|       between the Gorgias and other dialogues, especially the Republic,
 74 Intro|             is different in the two dialogues; being described in the
 75 Intro|          connection between the two dialogues. In both the ideas of measure,


Ion
    Part
 76 Intro|          the other earlier Platonic Dialogues, is a mixture of jest and


Lysis
    Part
 77 Intro|             resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness and
 78 Intro|            and several of the other Dialogues of Plato (compare especially


Menexenus
    Part
 79 Pre  |           all said to have composed dialogues; and mistakes of names are
 80 Pre  |     Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato are but a part
 81 Pre  |         passage found in the extant dialogues to any one but Plato. And
 82 Pre  |         Epistles, the Epinomis, the dialogues rejected by the ancients
 83 Pre  |        writings from Aristotle.~The dialogues which appear to have the
 84 Pre  |           to passages in the extant dialogues. From the mention of ‘Hippias’
 85 Pre  |             as in some of the other dialogues, whether the author is asserting
 86 Pre  |            character of the earlier dialogues. The resemblances or imitations
 87 Pre  |          resemblance to the earlier dialogues; the oration itself is professedly
 88 Pre  |          which, of all the disputed dialogues of Plato, has the greatest
 89 Pre  |   transparent than in the undoubted dialogues of Plato. We know, too,
 90 Pre  |           that at least five or six dialogues bearing this name passed
 91 Pre  |       degrees of genuineness in the dialogues themselves, as there are
 92 Pre  |    inimitable excellence. The three dialogues which we have offered to
 93 Pre  |           we maintain of some other dialogues, such as the Parmenides,
 94 Pre  |          bare possibility that some dialogues which are usually rejected,


Meno
    Part
 95 Intro|             tending in the previous Dialogues. But the new truth is no
 96 Intro|           earlier and more Socratic Dialogues, and gives a colour to all
 97 Intro|             and in all the previous Dialogues recurs in the Gorgias and
 98 Intro|             suppose that any of the Dialogues of Plato were written before
 99 Intro|           Unlike the later Platonic Dialogues, the Meno arrives at no
100 Intro|             a single volume all the Dialogues which contain allusions
101 Intro|          one or two passages in his Dialogues interpreted without regard
102 Intro|          the latest of the Platonic Dialogues, the conception of a personal


Parmenides
    Part
103 Intro|            mythical portions of the dialogues, and really occupies a very
104 Intro|          most of the other Platonic dialogues, to take a living part in
105 Intro|            more than of the earlier dialogues ‘of search.’ To us there
106 Intro|             Parmenides to the other dialogues.~I. In both divisions of
107 Intro|           Eristics in all the later dialogues, sometimes with a playful
108 Intro|        belongs to that stage of the dialogues of Plato in which he is
109 Intro|           name only. In the earlier dialogues the Socratic conception
110 Intro|          are asserted; in the later dialogues he is constantly engaged


Phaedo
    Part
111 Intro|     Memorabilia, and of the earlier Dialogues of Plato, is an argument
112 Intro|             not one of the Socratic Dialogues of Plato; nor, on the other
113 Intro|        employs.~As in several other Dialogues, there is more of system
114 Intro|             may be noted in all the Dialogues of Plato. The Phaedo is


Phaedrus
    Part
115 Intro|            or following it. The two Dialogues together contain the whole
116 Intro|             several of the Platonic Dialogues are a further proof that
117 Intro|           beautiful of the Platonic Dialogues, is also more irregular
118 Intro|           of this sort occur in the Dialogues, and the gravity of Plato
119 Intro|           of him when we regard his Dialogues merely as literary compositions.
120 Intro|      relation to the other Platonic Dialogues, seem to contradict the
121 Intro|           alive? Moreover, when two Dialogues are so closely connected
122 Intro|             can duly appreciate the dialogues of Plato, especially the
123 Intro|          and Gorgias and some other dialogues he makes reflections and


Philebus
    Part
124 Intro|             and ease of the earlier dialogues there occur two or three
125 Intro|           be noted, between the two dialogues. For whereas in the Phaedrus,
126 Intro|             Plato aims in his later dialogues. There is no mystic enthusiasm
127 Intro|          the Republic, and to other dialogues.~I. The paradox of the one
128 Intro|           least satisfactory in the dialogues of Plato. While the ethical
129 Intro|           the Philebus to the other dialogues. Here Plato shows the same
130 Intro|       probably the later of the two dialogues, is the more moderate. There
131 Intro|            are spoken of in the two dialogues. For Socrates is far from
132 Intro|            resemblance to the later dialogues and to the Laws: 2. The
133 Intro|        Plato probably wrote shorter dialogues, such as the Philebus, the
134 Intro|     fallacious, because these three dialogues are found to make an advance
135 Intro|            here as in several other dialogues (Phaedrus, Republic, etc.)


Protagoras
    Part
136 Intro|     Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the
137 Intro|         probable, and shows in many Dialogues (e.g. the Symposium and
138 Intro|            the Protagoras among the Dialogues, and the date of composition,
139 Intro|           and the affinities of the Dialogues, when they are not indicated
140 Intro|            to which, as in both the Dialogues called by his name, he now
141 Intro|      Protagoras stands to the other Dialogues of Plato. That it is one
142 Intro|       Sophists in some of the later Dialogues. The Charmides, Laches,


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
143 Pre  |                     Preface~The two dialogues [the Eryxias and The Second
144 Pre  |            are examples of Platonic dialogues to be assigned probably
145 Pre  |            translation of these two dialogues I am indebted to my friend


The Sophist
    Part
146 Intro|           The dramatic power of the dialogues of Plato appears to diminish
147 Intro|          greatly prefer the earlier dialogues to the later ones. Plato
148 Intro|            a tediousness in the two dialogues, which he ascribes to his
149 Intro|         great importance of the two dialogues be doubted by any one who
150 Intro|          constantly employed in the dialogues of Plato. The ‘slippery’
151 Intro|             God. Throughout the two dialogues Socrates continues a silent
152 Intro|            than that of the earlier dialogues; and there is more of bitterness,
153 Intro|        endless variety of the early dialogues, traces of the rhythmical
154 Intro|             of the Sophist to other dialogues.~I. The Sophist in Plato
155 Intro|       character varies in different dialogues. Like mythology, Greek philosophy
156 Intro|           the term ‘Sophist’ in the dialogues of Plato also shows that
157 Intro|             is found in his earlier dialogues, e.g. the Protagoras, as
158 Intro|             occurred in the earlier dialogues. But Plato could not altogether
159 Intro|          Sophists, who in the early dialogues, and in the Republic, are
160 Intro|         Not-being.~In all the later dialogues of Plato, the idea of mind
161 Intro|            examining.~IV. The later dialogues of Plato contain many references
162 Intro|             In several of the later dialogues Plato is occupied with the


The Statesman
    Part
163 Intro|           and beauty of the earlier dialogues. The mind of the writer
164 Intro|       natures. But, as in the later dialogues generally, the play of humour
165 Intro|        without proof, since the two dialogues have been questioned by
166 Intro|    discussed by him in the previous dialogues, but nowhere has the spirit
167 Intro|             courtesy of the earlier dialogues have disappeared. He sees
168 Intro|           longer, as in the earlier dialogues, the rival of the statesman,
169 Intro|     politics and dialectic. In both dialogues the Proteus Sophist is exhibited,
170 Intro|       lesser features which the two dialogues have in common. The styles
171 Intro|       fiction are practised in both dialogues, and in both, as well as
172 Intro|           than any of the preceding dialogues, the Statesman seems to
173 Intro|           and order of the Platonic dialogues has been reserved for another
174 Intro| metaphysical originality of the two dialogues: no works at once so good
175 Intro|       resemblances in them to other dialogues of Plato are such as might
176 Intro|          involves the fate of these dialogues, as well as of the two suspected
177 Intro|            narrow the circle of the dialogues, we must admit that they
178 Intro|      Phaedrus and the two suspected dialogues, as that which separates


The Symposium
    Part
179 Intro|            than in any other of his Dialogues, Plato is emancipated from
180 Intro|             in the first of the two Dialogues which are called by his
181 Intro|          subject; they are the only Dialogues of Plato in which the theme


Theaetetus
    Part
182 Intro|      INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS~Some dialogues of Plato are of so various
183 Intro|         their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with
184 Intro|         bear the stamp of the early dialogues, in which the original Socrates
185 Intro|        rather than with the earlier dialogues. In the first place there
186 Intro|            similar allusion in both dialogues to the meeting of Parmenides
187 Intro|          this and the two companion dialogues. We cannot exclude the possibility
188 Intro|   Theaetetus is one of the narrated dialogues of Plato, and is the only
189 Intro|             Socrates of the earlier dialogues. He is the invincible disputant,
190 Intro|             to the second and third dialogues, which are afterwards appended.
191 Intro|             Laches, Meno, and other dialogues. In the infancy of logic,
192 Intro|           character of the Platonic dialogues. On a first reading of them,
193 Intro|            or Sophist; but in other dialogues truth is divided, as in
194 Intro|           Theaetetus and some other dialogues he is occasionally playing
195 Intro|             leading us in his later dialogues. In its higher signification


Timaeus
    Part
196 Intro|         would have arranged his own dialogues, or whether the thought
197 Intro|             on physics in the other dialogues of Plato, and he himself
198 Intro|             of others. In all three dialogues he is exerting his dramatic
199 Intro|           the Timaeus and the other dialogues will not appear to be great.
200 Intro|          his life. In all his later dialogues we observe a tendency in
201 Intro|  philosophical mould than the other dialogues, but the same general spirit
202 Intro|           any other of the Platonic dialogues. The language is weighty,
203 Intro|            junctura’ of the earlier dialogues. His speculations about
204 Intro|            which Plato in his later dialogues seems to be struggling—the
205 Intro|            the Timaeus to the other dialogues of Plato and to the previous
206 Intro|           any other of the Platonic dialogues. It is conjectural astronomy,
207 Intro|            connexion with the other dialogues is comparatively slight.
208 Intro|           accordance with the other dialogues of Plato.~(b) The Timaeus
209 Intro|           found in any of the other dialogues (Rep.; Laws) of the goodness
210 Intro|             pages of one of Plato’s dialogues have grown into a great
211 Intro|          Timaeus, as from the other dialogues of Plato, we may still gather