CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
Trial and Error, the natural process of the human mind. Plato stands alone in bringing to view and dramatising this part of the mental process. Sokrates accepts for himself the condition of conscious ignorance
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Familiar words — constantly used, with much earnest feeling, but never understood nor defined — ordinary phenomenon in human society
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Different ethical points of view in different Platonic dialogues
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Self-knowledge is here declared to be impossible
ib.
In other dialogues, Sokrates declares self-knowledge to be essential and inestimable. Necessity for the student to have presented to him dissentient points of view
ib.
Courage and Temperance are shown to have no distinct meaning, except as founded on the general cognizance of good and evil
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Distinction made between the special sciences and the science of Good and Evil. Without this last, the special sciences are of no use
ib.
Knowledge, always relative to some object known. Postulate or divination of a Science of Teleology
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Courage and Temperance, handled both by Plato and by Aristotle. Comparison between the two
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CHAPTER XX.
LYSIS.
Analogy between Lysis and Charmides. Richness of dramatic incident in both. Youthful beauty
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Scenery and personages of the Lysis
ib.
Origin of the conversation. Sokrates promises to give an example of the proper way of talking to a youth, for his benefit
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Conversation of Sokrates with Lysis
ib.
Lysis is humiliated. Distress of Hippothalês
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Lysis entreats Sokrates to talk in the like strain to Menexenus
ib.
Value of the first conversation between Sokrates and Lysis, as an illustration of the Platonico-Sokratic manner
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Sokrates begins to examine Menexenus respecting friendship. Who is to be called a friend? Halt in the dialogue
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Questions addressed to Lysis. Appeal to the maxims of the poets. Like is the friend of like. Canvassed and rejected
ib.
Other poets declare that likeness is a cause of aversion; unlikeness, of friendship. Reasons pro and con. Rejected
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