CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
318
Assumptions of Schleiermacher respecting the Phædrus inadmissible
319
Neither Schleiermacher, nor any other critic, has as yet produced any tolerable proof for an internal theory of the Platonic dialogues
ib.
Munk’s theory is the most ambitious, and the most gratuitous, next to Schleiermacher’s
320
The age assigned to Sokrates in any dialogue is a circumstance of little moment
ib.
No intentional sequence or interdependence of the dialogues can be made out
322
Principle of arrangement adopted by Hermann is reasonable — successive changes in Plato’s point of view: but we cannot explain either the order or the causes of these changes
ib.
Hermann’s view more tenable than Schleiermacher’s
323
Small number of certainties, or even reasonable presumptions, as to date or order of the dialogues
324
Trilogies indicated by Plato himself
325
Positive dates of all the dialogues — unknown
326
When did Plato begin to compose? Not till after the death of Sokrates
ib.
Reasons for this opinion. Labour of the composition — does not consist with youth of the author
327
Reasons founded on the personality of Sokrates, and his relations with Plato
328
Reasons, founded on the early life, character, and position of Plato
330
Plato’s early life — active by necessity, and to some extent ambitious
331
Plato did not retire from political life until after the restoration of the democracy, nor devote himself to philosophy until after the death of Sokrates
333
All Plato’s dialogues were composed during the fifty-one years after the death of Sokrates
334
The Thrasyllean Canon is more worthy of trust than the modern critical theories by which it has been condemned
335
Unsafe grounds upon which those theories proceed
336
Opinions of Schleiermacher, tending to show this