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Phaedo (Hardcover)
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Phaedo (Hardcover)
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In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his
interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them
is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation;
no severe rules of art restrict them, and sometimes we are inclined
to think, with one of the dramatis personae in the Theaetetus, that
the digressions have the greater interest. Yet in the most
irregular of the dialogues there is also a certain natural growth
or unity; the beginning is not forgotten at the end, and numerous
allusions and references are interspersed, which form the loose
connecting links of the whole. We must not neglect this unity, but
neither must we attempt to confine the Platonic dialogue on the
Procrustean bed of a single idea. (Compare Introduction to the
Phaedrus.) Two tendencies seem to have beset the interpreters of
Plato in this matter. First, they have endeavoured to hang the
dia-logues upon one another by the slightest threads; and have thus
been led to opposite and contradictory assertions respec-ting their
order and sequence. The mantle of Schleiermacher has descended upon
his successors, who have applied his method with the most various
results.
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