Plato - Classic Reprint Author:A. E. Taylor PLATO CHAPTER I life and writings The traditional story of the life of Plato is one in which it is unusually difficult to distinguish between historical fact and romantic fiction. Of the ' Lives' of Plato which have come down to us from ancient times, the earliest in date is that of the African rhetorician and romance-writer Apuleius, who belong... more »s to the middle and later half of the second century a.d. There is a longer biography in the scrap-book commonly known as the Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes of Laerte, a compilation which dates, in its present form, from a time not long before the middle of the third century a.d., though much of its material is taken from earlier and better sources. The remaining 'Lives' belong to the latest age of Neo-Platonism, i.e. the sixth century after Christ and later. Thus the earliest extant bio-a I
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CONTENTS; CHAT FAQR; i LlFE and Will tin os 1; 11 Knowledge and its Objects 34; in The Soul of Man-Psychology, Ethics, and; Politics 73; iv Cosmoloqy 137; Select Bibliography 149; vii
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