Schleiermacher's Introductions To The Dialogues Of Plato (1836)

INTRODUCTIONS TO THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO. Εϊτ*ν% <> ) rf v e . H v « t - U SCHLEIERMACHER'S INTRODUCTIONS TO Τ Η Κ DIALOGUES TRANSLATED By FROM WILLIAM FELLOW OF Ρ L Α Τ Ο. THE GERMAN DOBSON, OL T R I N I T Y »i.A. COLLEGE. C A M B R I D G E : ΓΚΙΝΤΕΙ) A T T H E Γ1ΤΤ M E S S , B Y JOHN SMITH, PRINTER F O R J. & J. J. TO THE UNIVERSITY. D E I G H T O N , T R I N I T Y S T R E E T . LONDON: J O H N W I L L I A M P A R K E R , M.DCCC.XXXVI. W E S T S T R A N D . ADVERTISEMENT. T H E apparently unfinished state in which the present work comes before the public requires some explanation. The Author of the followingIntroductions died in the year 1834, having then completed the translation, into German, of all the Dialogues the Introductions to which arc here given. It was his intention to have published the whole of the works of Plato upon this plan; and we have thus to regret the loss of Introductions to the Timaeus, the Critias, the Laws, and all those smaller and spurious pieces not found in the Appendices to the first and second of the three parts into which Schleien« acher divided the Platonic works. The German translation, moreover, is furnished with various notes, critical and explanatory; a circumstance which I consider it necessary to mention, as the reader of these introductions will find in them occasional allusions to those notes. Such as referred immediately to passages in the Introductions themselves will be found at the end of the volume. ('•ON Τ Κ N T S . ΡΛίΐ I GENEUAI. IKTBODITCTION INTBODITTIOS ΤΟ 1 Τ Π Ι F H / E D R U S 41! L Y S I S 74 P R O T A G O R A S 81 L A C H E S 97 C H A R M I D E S 104 E U T H Y P H R O 10!» P A R M E N I D E S 112 / A P O L O G Y OF S O C R A T E S VcRjia .... I 1 I P P I A S H I P P A R C H U S . . . . . ^ - ) U I 153 let A L C I B I A D E S II G O R G I A S 163 1ÜD ,. ist» ' T H E J E T B T U S ΛΙΕΝΟ £04 E U T H Y D E M U S 219 C R A T Y L U S . 22ß S O P H I S T 24(i S T A T E S M A N 204 B A N Q U E T 277 P H / E D O N 291 P H I L E B Ü S 309 T H E A G E S 32] E R A S T J E 325 A L C I B I A D E S 1 M E N E X E N U S L A R G E R H I P P I A S C L I T O P H O N R E P U B L I C NOTES V.it R I.17 S U N O S , _ . 145 I O N L E S S E R R 32« 337 341 317 _350 .117 ffc, ERRATUM. I'agc 82, last l i n e , for her read / « . INTRODUCTIONS, cS-f. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. THE Greek Editions of the works of Plato generally prefix to them the biography of the Author from the well-known collection of Diogenes. But only the most indiscriminating attachment to an old custom could honour so crude a compilation, put together as it is without any judgment, with a translation. And Tennemann, in the life of Plato prefixed to his s