By George Grote
Most sensible recognized for his influential heritage of Greece, the historian and flesh presser George Grote (1794-1871) wrote this account of Plato's dialogues as a philosophical complement to the heritage. First released in 1865 and written in dialogic shape, Grote's account of Plato's works contains large footnotes and marginalia. This moment quantity covers the transitional and center dialogues together with Gorgias and Symposium, in addition to a number of the later works. Grote contains apocryphal works, as he depended on the order and category of Plato's works laid out in the traditional Greek student Thrasyllus of Mendes. With 3 volumes each one working to over 600 pages, Grote's scholarship is formidably complete. The booklet of Plato and the opposite partners of Sokrates proven him as one of many maximum professionals on Plato within the 19th century.
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Knowledge must be knowledge possessed by some one, and must be knowledge of something. What is it, that a man must know, in order that his justice or courage may become prontable ? Is it pleasures and pains, with their causes, and the comparative magnitude of each (as Sokrates declares in the Protagoras), in order that he may contribute to diminish the sum of pains, increase that of pleasures, to himself or to the society ? If this be what he is required to know, Plato should have said so—or if not, what else—in order that the requirement of knowledge might be made an intelligible condition.
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