Books author - "Plato"
the flavour ofSocratic irony in the narrative of Xenophon.The Apology or Platonic defence of Socrates is divided into three parts:1st. The defence properly so called; 2nd. The shorter address in mitigationof the penalty; 3rd. The last words of prophetic rebuke and exhortation. The first part commences with an apology for his colloquial style; he is,as he has always been, the enemy of rhetoric, and knows of no rhetoric buttruth; he will not falsify his character by making a speech. Then
fluence. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics. Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp.) have in all
the flavour ofSocratic irony in the narrative of Xenophon.The Apology or Platonic defence of Socrates is divided into three parts:1st. The defence properly so called; 2nd. The shorter address in mitigationof the penalty; 3rd. The last words of prophetic rebuke and exhortation. The first part commences with an apology for his colloquial style; he is,as he has always been, the enemy of rhetoric, and knows of no rhetoric buttruth; he will not falsify his character by making a speech. Then
fluence. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics. Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp.) have in all