CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
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Plato never published any of the lectures which he delivered at the Academy
ib.
Plato would never publish his philosophical opinions in his own name; but he may have published them in the dialogues under the name of others
360
Groups into which the dialogues admit of being thrown
361
Distribution made by Thrasyllus defective, but still useful — Dialogues of Search, Dialogues of Exposition
ib.
Dialogues of Exposition — present affirmative result. Dialogues of Search are wanting in that attribute
362
The distribution coincides mainly with that of Aristotle — Dialectic, Demonstrative
363
Classification of Thrasyllus in its details. He applies his own principles erroneously
364
The classification, as it would stand, if his principles were applied correctly
365
Preponderance of the searching and testing dialogues over the expository and dogmatical
366
Dialogues of Search — sub-classes among them recognised by Thrasyllus — Gymnastic and Agonistic, &c.
ib.
Philosophy, as now understood, includes authoritative teaching, positive results, direct proofs
ib.
The Platonic Dialogues of Search disclaim authority and teaching — assume truth to be unknown to all alike — follow a process devious as well as fruitless
367
The questioner has no predetermined course, but follows the lead given by the respondent in his answers
ib.
Relation of teacher and learner. Appeal to authority is suppressed
368
In the modern world the search for truth is put out of sight. Every writer or talker professes to have already found it, and to proclaim it to others
369
The search for truth by various interlocutors was a recognised process in the Sokratic age. Acute negative Dialectic of Sokrates
370
Negative procedure supposed to be represented by the Sophists and the Megarici; discouraged and censured by historians of philosophy
371
Vocation of Sokrates and Plato for the negative procedure: absolute necessity of it as a condition of reasoned truth. Parmenidês of Plato
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Sokrates considered the negative procedure to be valuable by itself, and separately. His theory of the natural state of the human mind; not ignorance, but false persuasion of knowledge
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Declaration of Sokrates in the Apology; his constant mission to make war against the false persuasion of knowledge