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Socrates says of Protagoras in the Theaetetus, "it is likely that a wise man is not talking nonsense." In attempting to formulate Plato's view, I rely entirely on the evidence of the dialogues, following them as closely as possible, so that he may speak for himself. Hence, at least initially, the references of Aristotle to the Platonic theory are not considered. Later, in connection with the Philebus and Timaeus, they are taken up and compared with what the dialogues reveal. But, at least, they would seem to constitute no objection to, but rather to reinforce, the view that Plato continued to hold his theory of forms throughout the dialogues. Since F. M. Cornford's commentaries and translations of the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Timaeus are widely known, I have thought it necessary to justify divergencies of my interpretation from his. However, notwithstanding my frequent exceptions to his commentaries, lowe a great debt to his careful analyses of Plato's often intricate arguments. The bibliography does not pretend to be a complete list of works on Plato's later dialogues. It includes those books and articles which have contributed to the "question and answer" resulting in

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Author

Edith Watson Schipper (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer

Published

1965

Language

EN

ISBN

9789401757904

Category

philosophy

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-25