A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
Nevertheless, after the lapse of a few years, Dionysius again invited him to Syracuse, and again he accepted the invita- tion. B ...
the poet and mystic. Plato is, in theory at least, the prince of rationalists and intellectualists. In practice, however, he mus ...
selves rather in the literary form than in the philosophical substance. We find here all the familiar Socratic proposi- tions, t ...
Eleatics, as an abstract One. It gives us, therefore, Plato’s conception of the relation of his own philosophy to Eleati- cism. ...
manner. A similar difficulty attends the question of the division of Plato’s philosophy. He himself has given us no single and c ...
as those of his teachers. His teachers, {179} therefore, can teach him nothing. As to discussion and proof, the very fact that t ...
And this shows that I have identified the two sensations. This {181} cannot be done by the senses themselves. For my eyes cannot ...
he now converts into a theory of the nature of reality. This is the subject-matter of Dialectic. {183} (iv.) Physics, or the the ...
that there is no such thing as beauty apart from beautiful objects, and that, though we use one word, yet this is only a manner ...
Let us see next what the characteristics of the Ideas are. In the first place, they are substances. Substance is a tech- nical t ...
find it difficult to conceive of thoughts without a thinker. This, however, is just what Plato meant. They are not sub- jective ...
eternity is distinguished from infinite time. The latter is described as a mere copy of eternity. Ninthly, the Ideas are rationa ...
nence. This criticism is partly justified. Plato did underes- timate the value of physical knowledge. But for the most part, the ...
man would still be real even if all men were destroyed, and it was real before any man existed, if there ever was such a time. F ...
ality of its subject. Consider the simplest affirmation that can be made about the One, namely, “The One is.” Here we have two t ...
in one supreme Idea, which is the highest expression of its unity. Moreover, each separate Idea is, in the same way, a many in o ...
the ultimate reality, is the ground of all other Ideas. Plato ought therefore to have derived all other Ideas from it, but this ...
plural, and seems to slip with remarkable ease from the monotheistic to the polytheistic manner of speaking. In addition to the ...
it finally enters upon dialectic. Thus all knowledge ends in dialectic, and that life has not attained its end which falls short ...
sition of goods. That which is an end in itself, and not a means towards any further end, cannot possibly have any use. To sugge ...
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