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The Mutiny of the Elsinore (Hardcover)
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore (Hardcover)
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In the Phaedrus, the Republic, the Philebus, the Parmenides, and
the Sophist, we may observe the tendency of Plato to combine two or
more subjects or different aspects of the same subject in a single
dialogue. In the Sophist and Statesman especially we note that the
discussion is partly regarded as an illustration of method, and
that analogies are brought from afar which throw light on the main
subject. And in his later writings generally we further remark a
decline of style, and of dramatic power; the characters excite
little or no interest, and the digressions are apt to overlay the
main thesis; there is not the 'callida junctura' of an artistic
whole. Both the serious discussions and the jests are sometimes out
of place. The invincible Socrates is withdrawn from view; and new
foes begin to appear under old names. Plato is now chiefly
concerned, not with the original Sophist, but with the sophistry of
the schools of philosophy, which are making reasoning impossible;
and is driven by them out of the regions of transcendental
speculation back into the path of common sense. A logical or
psychological phase takes the place of the doctrine of Ideas in his
mind. He is constantly dwelling on the importance of regular
classification, and of not putting words in the place of things. He
has banished the poets, and is beginning to use a technical
language. He is bitter and satirical, and seems to be sadly
conscious of the realities of human life.
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