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2 revisions | Michael.Seidel at Feb 23, 2021 02:02 AM | |
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146Logiv IV. 152 about the year 366 B.C. It may be asked why I shold not place it in 364 B.C. when, according to the more usual mode of reckoning a person's age, Plato would have just the age assigned to Parmenidies. But the reply is, that so bald an identification would be offensive to Plato's delicacy. Sixty five was the first semi-round number abov his actual age of sixty-three (sixty-two as we should say.) In the Philebus we seem to trace the further influence of Aristotle upon Plato. It is not a good influence. It stimulates him to an endeavor after exactitude in which his really great qualities almost disappear. It is an ethical dialogue, yet not purely so. In straining to be Scientific he risks sundry propositions in logic, in metaphysics, and in psychology, and suceeds in attaining just sufficient exactitude to enable hime to be definitely in the wrong, for the most part | 146 |