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. 1882. Excerpt: ... PLATO'S LATER THEORY OF IDEAS. I. THE PHILEBUS AND ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS I 6. 1 Does the theory of ideas appear in the republic in its final form? In a former paper1 (Journal of Philology X 132) I proposed what I believe to be a new interpretation of the concluding pages of the sixth book of the republic; I ...
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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. 1882. Excerpt: ... PLATO'S LATER THEORY OF IDEAS. I. THE PHILEBUS AND ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS I 6. 1 Does the theory of ideas appear in the republic in its final form? In a former paper1 (Journal of Philology X 132) I proposed what I believe to be a new interpretation of the concluding pages of the sixth book of the republic; I compared this notable passage with another, not less difficult, in the Phaedo, which seems to me to represent the same phase of doctrinal development; and I tried to determine the dogmatic content of the two passages. In both places Plato, as I read him, contrasts the 'general notion, ' i.e. the connotation of the name as we imperfectly understand it, not hypostasized, with the 'idea/ i.e. the whole completed connotation of the name, hypostasized: in both places he marks the insufficiency of any method which, like that of Socrates, whether in its original shape or as improved and supplemented by Plato himself, has nothing better than imperfect uncertified general notions for its dpai; in both places, but in the Phaedo with less confidence than in the republic, he aspires to a more perfect method, which should attain scientific truth by converting imperfect uncertified Twyoi into X6yot, proved to be the exact representations of ideas; finally, in both places, but in the Phaedo with especial emphasis, he declares his scheme of a higher logic to contain a fatal flaw. 1 To my friend Mr E. D. Archer paper and of the paper here referred Hind I am indebted for much helpful to. and suggestive criticism both of this Although however, not only in the Phaedo, but also in the republic, --the dialogue which is generally accounted the most perfect representation of the most characteristic phase of his doctrinal development, --Plato frankly acknowledges his fai...
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