Plato and Platonism: A Series of LecturesBloomsbury Academic, 1893 - 256 страници This important new series, under the editorship of a preeminent American scholar, revivifies some of the most influential classics of nineteenth-century literary thought. Forerunners of our aesthetic sensibility, these volumes are a great voice from the last century calling us to ourselves. |
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Страница 65 - Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first, love, And looking back — at that short space — Could see a glimpse of his bright face...
Страница 65 - But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.
Страница 5 - ... nothing man has projected from himself is really intelligible except at its own date, and from its proper point of view in the never-resting "secular process...
Страница 10 - Heraclitus, like one, knowing beyond his years, in this barely adolescent world which he is so eager to instruct, makes no pretence to be able to restrain that. Was not the very essence of thought itself also such perpetual motion? A baffling transition from the dead past, alive one moment since, to a present, itself deceased in turn ere we can say, It is here? A keen analyst of the facts of nature and mind, a master presumably of all the knowledge that then there was, a vigorous definer of thoughts,...
Страница 1 - With the world of intellectual production, as with that of organic generation, nature makes no sudden starts.
Страница 245 - And accordingly, in education, all will begin and end in " music," in the promotion of qualities to which no truer name can be given than symmetry, aesthetic fitness, tone. Philosophy itself indeed, as he conceives it, is but the sympathetic appreciation of a kind of music in the very nature of things.
Страница 212 - Another day-dream, you may say, about those obscure ancient people, it was ever so difficult really to know, who had hidden their actual life with so much success ; but certainly a quite natural dream upon the paradoxical things we are told of them, on good authority. It is because they make us ask that question ; puzzle us by a paradoxical idealism in life ; are thus distinguished from their neighbours ; that, like some of our old English places of education, though we might not like to live always...
Страница 180 - Mitylene, and Bias of Priene, and our own Solon, and Cleobulus the Lindian, and Myson the Chenian; and seventh in the catalogue of wise men was the Lacedaemonian Chilo. All these were lovers and emulators and disciples of the culture of the Lacedaemonians, and any one may perceive that their wisdom was of this character; consisting of short memorable sentences, which they severally uttered.
Страница 127 - ... magnetism, as we call it, of actual human friendship or love: — There, is the formula of Plato's genius, the essential condition of the specially Platonic temper, — of Platonism. And his style, because it really is Plato's style, conforms to, and in its turn promotes in others, that mental situation. He breaks as it were visible colour into the very texture of his work; his vocabulary, the very stuff he manipulates, has its delightful aesthetic qualities; almost every word, one might say,...
Страница 183 - Lacedaemonians had secreted their peculiar disposition, in contrast with the mobile, the marine and fluid temper of the littoral Ionian people. The Republic of Plato is an embodiment of that Platonic reassertion or preference, of Platonism, as the principle of a society, ideal enough indeed, yet in various degrees practicable. It is not understood by Plato to be an erection de novo, and therefore only on paper. Its foundations might be laid in certain...