CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
Perikles would have accepted the defence of rhetoric, as Plato has put it into the mouth of Gorgias
370
The Athenian people recognise a distinction between the pleasurable and the good: but not the same as that which Plato conceived
371
Rhetoric was employed at Athens in appealing to all the various established sentiments and opinions. Erroneous inferences raised by the Kalliklês of Plato
373
The Platonic Idéal exacts, as good, some order, system, discipline. But order may be directed to bad ends as well as to good. Divergent ideas about virtue
374
How to discriminate the right order from the wrong. Plato does not advise us
375
The Gorgias upholds the independence and dignity of the dissenting philosopher
ib.
CHAPTER XXV.
PHÆDON.
The Phædon is affirmative and expository
377
Situation and circumstances assumed in the Phædon. Pathetic interest which they inspire
ib.
Simmias and Kebês, the two collocutors with Sokrates. Their feelings and those of Sokrates
378
Emphasis of Sokrates in insisting on freedom of debate, active exercise of reason, and independent judgment for each reasoner
379
Anxiety of Sokrates that his friends shall be on their guard against being influenced by his authority — that they shall follow only the convictions of their own reason
380
Remarkable manifestation of earnest interest for reasoned truth and the liberty of individual dissent
381
Phædon and Symposion — points of analogy and contrast
382
Phædon — compared with Republic and Timæus. No recognition of the triple or lower souls. Antithesis between soul and body
383
Different doctrines of Plato about the soul. Whether all the three souls are immortal, or the rational soul alone
385
The life and character of a philosopher is a constant struggle to emancipate his soul from his body. Death alone enables him to do this completely
386
Souls of the ordinary or unphilosophical men pass after death into the bodies of different animals. The philosopher alone is relieved from all communion with body
387
Special privilege claimed for philosophers in the Phædon apart from the virtuous men who are not philosophers
388
Simmias and Kebês do not admit readily the immortality of the soul, but are unwilling to trouble Sokrates by asking for proof. Unabated interest of Sokrates in rational debate
390