Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1836. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTES. PH.EDRUS. Page 72. Several of the conceptions in this Myth. I Cannot help maintaining what is here said, notwithstanding what Boeckh adduces (Heid. Jahrb. 1. 1). I can neither discover the coincidence with Philolaus, nor put such firm faith in the genuineness of the fragment ascribed to him. But this is a subject which can only be discussed in another place *. P. 73. We are not to look for too much. Ast, in his commentary, has construed this passage very literally. It is, however, too profound for my apprehension how the poetic life above is indeed removed from all real representation of the true and beautiful, when below it forms the fourth kind of real life, and thus appears coordinate with the poetical and gymnastic life. Again, I know not in what sense a higher conception of the true and beautiful can be said to belong to the DEGREESat//uano-Tnto? than to the yeupyiKot. And thus I leave it to others to enjoy this philosophy. LYSIS. P. 78. To have had the Lysis in his mind. Whoever reads, with a view to comparing the passages with this dialogue, Eth. Nicom. vm. c. 1. 2. 10. (p. 59. A.D. p. 63. B.) Magn. Mor. 11. c. 11. (p. 111. E. and 112. C.) and Eudem. vn. 2. 5. (p. 162. B. C. p. 165. B. Ed. Casaub. * But see the extract from Boeckh's Philolaus, p. 104. at the end of this volume. (Tr.) I 15,00.) will scarcely continue to doubt of this, although Aristotle neither names Plato nor the dialogue, and one might feel some suprise, if he really had it in view, that this is not done more frequently and thoroughly. PROTAGORAS. P. 82. Perished. I learnt this from an investigation regularly instituted into this family by Heindorf out of the fourth speech of Andocides. Athenteus, Deipnosophist. v. p. 218, does not adduce this authority, but only concludes from the come..