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Parmenides (Hardcover)
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Parmenides (Hardcover)
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The Cratylus has always been a source of perplexity to the student
of Plato. While in fancy and humour, and perfection of style and
metaphysical originality, this dialogue may be ranked with the best
of the Platonic writings, there has been an uncertainty about the
motive of the piece, which interpreters have hitherto not succeeded
in dispelling. We need not suppose that Plato used words in order
to conceal his thoughts, or that he would have been unintelligible
to an educated contemporary. In the Phaedrus and Euthydemus we also
find a difficulty in determining the precise aim of the author.
Plato wrote satires in the form of dialogues, and his meaning, like
that of other satirical writers, has often slept in the ear of
posterity. Two causes may be assigned for this obscurity: 1st, the
subtlety and allusiveness of this species of composition; 2nd, the
difficulty of reproducing a state of life and literature which has
passed away. A satire is unmeaning unless we can place ourselves
back among the persons and thoughts of the age in which it was
written.
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