Schleiermacher's Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato

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J. & J.J. Deighton, 1836 - 432 sivua

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Sivu 26 - Moreover by the circumstance, that as by the former all the rest are presupposed, so, conversely, many references are to be found throughout to these latter as previously existing; and even looking only to the particular thoughts, they appear in these dialogues still as it were in the first glitter and awkwardness of early youth. And further, these three dialogues are not indeed like those three last, worked up into one whole with a definite purpose and with much art, but notwithstanding, mutually...
Sivu 387 - qui imprimis de justitia ocere voluisse Platonem, . object, still the form and the manner in which this is done would then be perfectly unmeaning and absurd. It would have been much more natural to introduce the main subject at once, and then, after the internal existence of the state had been described, to say in what the justice and discretion of such a whole consist ; and then the application to the individual mind, and the ethical problems, still unsolved in this point of view, would have resulted...
Sivu 27 - ... the relation of ideas to actual things. The Phaedrus, Protagoras and Parmenides, have a character of youthfulness quite peculiar. They appear in the first glitter and awkwardness of early youth. They are not worked up into one whole, with a definite purpose, and with much art. In them also are shown the first breathings of what is the basis of all that follows, of logic as the instrument of philosophy, of ideas as its proper object, consequently of the possibility and of the conditions of knowledge....
Sivu 273 - ... in the same manner with that essential existence. Thus, then, the immortality of the soul is the condition of all true knowledge, as regards men ; and conversely, the reality of knowledge is the ground upon which the immortality of the soul is most certainly and easily understood. Hence, in the former dialogues also, in which knowledge was investigated, immortality was always...
Sivu 28 - ... not worked up into one whole, with a definite purpose, and with much art. In them also are shown the first breathings of what is the basis of all that follows, of logic as the instrument of philosophy, of ideas as its proper object, consequently of the possibility and of the conditions of knowledge. In the second part, the explanation of knowledge, and of the process of acquiring knowledge, is the predominant subject. At the head of this part stands the Theaetetus beyond the possibility of a...
Sivu 387 - we are to start upon the supposition that the representation of the state is the proper grand object, it would be hardly possible to conceive why the appearance of the contrary is pointedly produced. 2 And even if it could be explained why Plato combined the investigation concerning justice with this grand In his countryman Buhle's " History of Modern Philosophy,

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