The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|           not appear in any of his writings to have aimed at literal
  2 Text |    elaborate passages in their own writings, and asked what was the


Charmides
    Part
  3 PreF |          is a common spirit in the writings of Plato, but not a unity
  4 PreF |        have attributed a system to writings belonging to an age when
  5 PreF |          may be illustrated by the writings of moderns, but he must
  6 PreF |       admitting as genuine all the writings commonly attributed to Plato
  7 PreF |       forge them; and in which the writings of a school were naturally
  8 PreF |          accept as genuine all the writings which he finds in the lists
  9 PreF |  Alexandrian Canon of the Platonic writings is deprived of credit by
 10 PreS |          from the study of ancient writings.~Considering the great and
 11 PreS |      subject acknowledges that his writings have not come down to us
 12 PreS |           explain Plato out of the writings of Aristotle. In the chapter
 13 PreS |         can be found in his extant writings:—a small matter truly; but
 14 PreS |          is no hint in Plato’s own writings that he was conscious of
 15 PreS |          in different parts of his writings or even in the same passage.
 16 PreS |        from different parts of his writings, or even from the same work,
 17 PreS |          the chronology of Plato’s writings dependent upon it (See J.
 18 PreS |         may remark that in Plato’s writings there is both unity, and
 19 Intro|            Plato, who in his other writings identifies good and knowledge,
 20 Intro|          catalogue of the Platonic writings, though they are not conclusive.


Cratylus
    Part
 21 Intro|           the best of the Platonic writings, there has been an uncertainty
 22 Intro|           light from Plato’s other writings, and still less from Scholiasts
 23 Intro|          are replaced in his later writings by a rational theory of
 24 Intro|            trace in any of Plato’s writings that he was acquainted with
 25 Intro|       tautology as the best modern writings. The speech of young children,


Euthydemus
    Part
 26 Intro|           than in any other of his writings. Even Thrasymachus, in the
 27 Intro|           were acquainted with the writings against which Plato’s humour


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 28 Pre  |         any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious.
 29 Pre  |         date and authorship of the writings which are ascribed to him.
 30 Pre  |           to the enquiry about the writings of a particular author,
 31 Pre  |         the genuineness of ancient writings are the following: Shorter
 32 Pre  |          some affinity to spurious writings can be detected, or which
 33 Pre  |     general spirit of the Platonic writings. But the testimony of Aristotle
 34 Pre  |       degrees of importance. Those writings which he cites without mentioning
 35 Pre  |          supposed by him to be the writings of another, although in
 36 Pre  |        citations from the Platonic writings he never attributes any
 37 Pre  |       remark that one or two great writings, such as the Parmenides
 38 Pre  |          the general spirit of his writings. Indeed the greater part
 39 Pre  |     nineteen-twentieths of all the writings which have ever been ascribed
 40 Pre  |          or they may have been the writings of some contemporary transferred
 41 Pre  |           of words, if his earlier writings are compared with his later
 42 Pre  |           not Plato, whose earlier writings are separated from his later
 43 Pre  |          which separates his later writings from Aristotle.~The dialogues
 44 Pre  |     genuineness among the Platonic writings, are the Lesser Hippias,
 45 Pre  |            of the earlier Platonic writings, to invent. The motive or
 46 Pre  |            comparison of the other writings of Plato. The funeral oration
 47 Pre  |  Parmenides.~To these two doubtful writings of Plato I have added the
 48 Pre  |            compared to the earlier writings of Plato. The motive of
 49 Pre  |          existence of contemporary writings bearing the name of Alcibiades,
 50 Pre  |       between genuine and spurious writings of Plato. They fade off
 51 Pre  |         the basis of semi-Platonic writings; some of them may be of
 52 Pre  |         them is different. But the writings of Plato, unlike the writings
 53 Pre  |      writings of Plato, unlike the writings of Aristotle, seem never
 54 Pre  |        have been confused with the writings of his disciples: this was
 55 Pre  |      object of these semi-Platonic writings require more careful study
 56 Pre  |           another, and with forged writings in general, than they have
 57 Pre  |            a twentieth part of the writings which pass under the name
 58 Intro|     simpler than in other Platonic writings, and the conclusion more


Gorgias
    Part
 59 Intro|            in any other of Plato’s writings: for he is ‘fooled to the
 60 Intro|          ironical character of his writings, we may compare him with
 61 Intro|        found a ray of light in his writings. But he has not explained
 62 Intro|            some other parts of his writings (e.g. Laws), he has fairly
 63 Intro|           like them in other Greek writings which have a serious purpose;


Ion
    Part
 64 Intro|           the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato,
 65 Intro|         worst critics of their own writings—anybody taken at random


Laws
    Book
 66 7    |       seeing how dangerous are the writings handed down to us by many
 67 9    |         their seals, and place the writings on the altar of Hestia.
 68 9    |           Athenian. There are many writings to be found in cities, and
 69 9    |            give heed rather to the writings of those others—poets and
 70 9    |            of life, and not to the writings of legislators? or shall
 71 9    |        down evil precepts in their writings respecting life and the
 72 9    |           not true that of all the writings to be found in cities, those
 73 9    |         best? and should not other writings either agree with them,
 74 12   |         look, and he shall possess writings about them that he may learn
 75 12   |           the one sure test is the writings of the legislator, which


Lysis
    Part
 76 Intro|          of Aristotle. As in other writings of Plato (for example, the


Menexenus
    Part
 77 Pre  |         any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious.
 78 Pre  |         date and authorship of the writings which are ascribed to him.
 79 Pre  |           to the enquiry about the writings of a particular author,
 80 Pre  |         the genuineness of ancient writings are the following: Shorter
 81 Pre  |          some affinity to spurious writings can be detected, or which
 82 Pre  |     general spirit of the Platonic writings. But the testimony of Aristotle
 83 Pre  |       degrees of importance. Those writings which he cites without mentioning
 84 Pre  |          supposed by him to be the writings of another, although in
 85 Pre  |        citations from the Platonic writings he never attributes any
 86 Pre  |       remark that one or two great writings, such as the Parmenides
 87 Pre  |          the general spirit of his writings. Indeed the greater part
 88 Pre  |     nineteen-twentieths of all the writings which have ever been ascribed
 89 Pre  |          or they may have been the writings of some contemporary transferred
 90 Pre  |           of words, if his earlier writings are compared with his later
 91 Pre  |           not Plato, whose earlier writings are separated from his later
 92 Pre  |          which separates his later writings from Aristotle.~The dialogues
 93 Pre  |     genuineness among the Platonic writings, are the Lesser Hippias,
 94 Pre  |            of the earlier Platonic writings, to invent. The motive or
 95 Pre  |            comparison of the other writings of Plato. The funeral oration
 96 Pre  |  Parmenides.~To these two doubtful writings of Plato I have added the
 97 Pre  |            compared to the earlier writings of Plato. The motive of
 98 Pre  |          existence of contemporary writings bearing the name of Alcibiades,
 99 Pre  |       between genuine and spurious writings of Plato. They fade off
100 Pre  |         the basis of semi-Platonic writings; some of them may be of
101 Pre  |         them is different. But the writings of Plato, unlike the writings
102 Pre  |      writings of Plato, unlike the writings of Aristotle, seem never
103 Pre  |        have been confused with the writings of his disciples: this was
104 Pre  |      object of these semi-Platonic writings require more careful study
105 Pre  |           another, and with forged writings in general, than they have
106 Pre  |            a twentieth part of the writings which pass under the name
107 Intro| Alexandrian catalogues of Platonic writings.~


Meno
    Part
108 Intro|         not to be found in his own writings. The popular account of
109 Intro|           about a third of Plato’s writings and are not confined to
110 Intro|           Soph.). But in his later writings he seems to have laid aside
111 Intro|          spirit which pervades his writings, both those in which he
112 Intro|           be gathered from his own writings (see especially Laws). In
113 Intro|          one age to understand the writings of another; or how nice


Parmenides
    Part
114 Intro|           by his name. None of the writings of Plato have been more
115 Intro|          the relation to the other writings of Plato is also uncertain;
116 Intro|           the best of the Platonic writings; the first portion of the
117 Intro|   authorised canon of the Platonic writings, to condemn the Parmenides
118 Intro|            mind, in any of Plato’s writings, with the exception of the
119 Intro|            your second self in his writings too; you prove admirably
120 Text |            they wanted to hear the writings of Zeno, which had been
121 Text |            your second self in his writings too; he puts what you say
122 Text |           The truth is, that these writings of mine were meant to protect


Phaedo
    Part
123 Intro|          as well as from the other writings of Plato, which says that
124 Intro|        which is represented by the writings of Plato, we find that many
125 Intro|            in all his more ethical writings, as about his theory of
126 Intro|           view; in no other of the writings of Plato is the theory of
127 Intro|        later stage of the Platonic writings at which the doctrine of
128 Intro|         more perfect than in those writings of Plato which describe


Phaedrus
    Part
129 Intro|          Republic and in the later writings of Plato is only introduced
130 Intro|        comparison of Plato’s other writings, as well as the reason of
131 Intro|          indication in Plato’s own writings that this was his meaning.
132 Intro|          POETICAL necessity in the writings of their favourite author,
133 Intro|        this aspect of the Platonic writings. First, we do not immediately
134 Text |            lines in the apocryphal writings of Homer in which the name
135 Text |       thinks that even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of
136 Text |           others who have composed writings in the form of political
137 Text |       arguments, which leave their writings poor in comparison of them,


Philebus
    Part
138 Intro|     appears to be one of the later writings of Plato, in which the style
139 Intro|      Philebus, as in all the later writings of Plato, the element of
140 Intro|          this, as in all the later writings of Plato, there are not
141 Intro|        that Plato composed shorter writings after longer ones, than
142 Intro|          the latest in time of the writings of Plato with the exception
143 Intro|          the whole of the Platonic writings. And here as in several
144 Intro|            in the earlier Platonic writings. The germs of logic are
145 Intro|      character of the Aristotelian writings and the form in which they
146 Intro|       which are anticipated in his writings, may we not truly describe
147 Text |         SOCRATES: And do all those writings and paintings which, as


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
148 Pre  |   generation after Plato, when his writings were well known at Athens
149 Pre  |           among all Greek or Roman writings, the one which anticipates


The Sophist
    Part
150 Intro|        which occur in the Platonic writings. For Plato is not justifying
151 Intro|            Socrates respecting the writings of Heracleitus— ‘Noble is
152 Intro|         and by the use made of his writings in the Middle Ages. No book,
153 Intro|          in different parts of his writings are arranged by the philosopher
154 Intro|     returns again and again to his writings as to the recollections
155 Intro|       scattered up and down in his writings, as when he tells us that ‘
156 Intro|         world. No one can read his writings without acquiring an insight


The Statesman
    Part
157 Intro|          subject. And in his later writings generally we further remark
158 Intro|          is more bitter in all his writings than his comparison of the
159 Intro|          than any other of Plato’s writings. The city of which there
160 Intro|           of the work to the other writings of Plato; lastly (7), we
161 Intro|        general change in the later writings of Plato, when compared
162 Intro|    Dialectic, which in the earlier writings of Plato is a revival of
163 Intro|            passages in his earlier writings; and we might a priori have
164 Intro|        presumption that in Plato’s writings we may expect to find an
165 Intro|      genuineness of any particular writings, but may be even an argument
166 Intro|          separates all the earlier writings of Plato from the Laws.
167 Intro|         great body of the Platonic writings.~


The Symposium
    Part
168 Intro|      Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself
169 Intro|            Asia to be found in his writings. And more than any other
170 Intro|            to be found there. Some writings hardly admit of a more distinct
171 Intro|            been applied to all the writings of Plato, is especially
172 Intro|   suspicion which hangs over other writings of Xenophon, and the numerous
173 Intro|            as to some of the other writings of Plato, throw a doubt


Theaetetus
    Part
174 Intro|          his earlier and his later writings. The perfection of style,
175 Intro|          dramatic character of the writings of Plato. There are two,
176 Intro|     sufficiently accomplished.~The writings of Plato belong to an age
177 Intro|          find mention in the later writings of Plato, especially in
178 Intro|    yourself a pig, and you make my writings a sport of other swine.
179 Intro|      fanatics’ who appealed to his writings. He might have said, ‘The
180 Intro|          early poetry or in sacred writings to express the works of
181 Text |        hearers to make sport of my writings in the same ignorant manner;
182 Text |           may be inferred from his writings, agrees that this opinion


Timaeus
    Part
183 Intro|            AND ANALYSIS~Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is
184 Intro|         they seemed to find in his writings the Christian Trinity, the
185 Intro|           were acquainted with his writings only through the medium
186 Intro|          occurs in Plato’s earlier writings. The sentences are less
187 Intro|          the general spirit of his writings. To reconcile his inconsistencies
188 Intro|      accordance with Plato’s other writings than the opposite hypothesis.
189 Intro|          is a common spirit in his writings, and there are certain general
190 Intro|            refer to other Platonic writings,—and still less should we
191 Intro|       purchased three books of his writings from a relation is not worth
192 Intro|         nowhere to be found in the writings of Plato, although the importance
193 Intro|           isolated passages in his writings, or attempt to draw what