CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
But what virtue itself is, remains unknown
ib.
Remarks on the dialogue. Proper order for examining the different topics, is pointed out by Sokrates
ib.
Mischief of debating ulterior and secondary questions when the fundamental notions and word are unsettled
ib.
Doctrine of Sokrates in the Menon — desire of good alleged to be universally felt — in what sense this is true
243
Sokrates requires knowledge as the principal condition of virtue, but does not determine knowledge, of what ?
244
Subject of Menon; same as that of the Protagoras — diversity of handling — Plato is not anxious to settle a question and get rid of it
245
Anxiety of Plato to keep up and enforce the spirit of research
246
Great question discussed among the Grecian philosophers — criterion of truth — Wherein consists the process of verification?
ib.
None of the philosophers were satisfied with the answer here made by Plato — that verification consists in appeal to pre-natal experience
247
Plato’s view of the immortality of the soul — difference between the Menon, Phædrus, and Phædon
249
Doctrine of Plato, that new truth may be elicited by skilful examination out of the unlettered mind — how far correct ?
ib.
Plato’s doctrine about à priori reasonings — different from the modern doctrine
251
Plato’s theory about pre-natal experience. He took no pains to ascertain and measure the extent of post-natal experience
252
Little or nothing is said in the Menon about the Platonic Ideas or Forms
253
What Plato meant by Causal Reasoning — his distinction between knowledge and right opinion
ib.
This distinction compared with modern philosophical views
254
Manifestation of Anytus — intense antipathy to the Sophists and to philosophy generally
255
The enemy of Sokrates is also the enemy of the sophists — practical statesmen
256
The Menon brings forward the point of analogy between Sokrates and the Sophists, in which both were disliked by the practical statesmen
257
CHAPTER XXIII.
PROTAGORAS.