Socrates And Plato a Criticism of Professor Ae Taylors Varia Socratica
Socrates And Plato a Criticism of Professor Ae Taylors Varia Socratica
Field, G. C. (Guy Cromwell), 1887-1955
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He says : ' But some have thought that the nature of the Ideas is by itself a sufficient cause of generation, cbarrep 6 ev aiSa>vi ^cofcpdrr)?. ' All these passages go to show that when Aristotle is quoting the Socrates of the later dialogues, he is careful to use. Language which strongly suggests SOCRATES AND PLATO. 25 that he is expressly distinguishing him from the historical Socrates. Altogether the evidence of Aristotle is thoroughly unfavourable to the view that Socrates was a Pythagorean... or held a Theory of Ideas, or to the view that the Platonic dialogues are throughout to be taken as a record of the views of the historical Socrates. For the sake of completeness, a word must now be said of the evidence of later writers. This evidence is not of very great value. On a point of philosophical opinion its value is practically reduced to a vanishing point. But there is one point on which, if Professor Taylor's views were correct, we should expect some evidence from the later authors.
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