Outlines from Plato; An Introduction to Greek Metaphysics (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...Ino good act fails to be also not-good from some point of view. Such 'otherness' they called rb pirj 6v, a phrase of purely logical signification since, as being an object of thought, it must always be equally ' real' with what is distinguished as rb Sv. Omnis negatio eat determinatio. Further, phenomena seem to have even contradictory qualities, and, indeed, have them, '., if viewed in different relations or aspects. A man, therefore, whose knowledge is limited to individual objects of sense, who knows these only in separation 1 See esp. Theaet. 189, Rep. 478 B, and Soph. 239 D--241, where the logical character of To nq Sv is demonstrated. Error is shown to lie not in believing in something which does not exist, but in mistaking one piece of reality for another. It is therefore not rfvSrjS fidja but aXodogia. Cf. Green, Proleg. 12. from each other and not as examples of an underlying law of Nature, and who can give no account (6yov bihovai) of their causal connexion with other phenomena, cannot be said to have knowledge proper but only opinion, 8o' a: for such knowledge as he has is but empirical, and rests on no basis of ascertained general principles. Correspondingly, the world of phenomena, if understood only in this superficial and empirical manner, is the world of mere opinion, rd bogaarov. H Ovk fjcrOrjoai on ecrriv n /xera ii crotpCas Kai ap.aOCas; Tc Tocto; To 6pOa bo a (iv /tai avev Tov ZxeiV hoyov hovvai Ovk oio-d', ecprj, on ovre enCo-racrdaC io-rw--aXoyov yap irpayp.a ircSs hv etrj e7norjjju.jj;--ovre op.adCa--rd yap Tov Ovtos rvy6.vov ir&s av elrj a.y.adia;--eori 8e hrjr.ov Toiovtov fj 6pdrj 8o' a, /nera v cppovqo-ecos Kal apjxOCas. Symp. 202 A. 'You have surely observed that there is a certain state of mind th...