This is a 1950 collection of eight essays about Plato and the
Presocratic philosophers who were F. M. Cornford's particular
interest in the field of Greek thought. In the essay that gives the
collection its title Cornford develops the two complementary themes
which run through much of his writing: the effects of individual
style and human character which must be reckoned with in
reconstructing a philosopher's system from fragments or
interpreting a complete philosophic work; and the influence of
abstract schemes of conception which the philosopher assumes within
his cultural tradition. These themes recur in essays discussing
Pythagoras, Hesiod and Plato. Cornford's enthusiasm for his subject
will communicate itself to any reader. In the memoir of Cornford
which accompanies the essays Professor W. K. C. Guthrie describes
the Hellenic qualities of Cornford's writing: 'the living symmetry
of form, the grace and delicacy of the details, the humour, irony
and occasional fantasy enlivening a fundamentally serious theme'.
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