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Page xxiv - Polus that cookery in my opinion is only an experience, and not an art at all; and that whereas medicine is an art, and attends to the nature and constitution of the patient, and has principles of action and reason in each case, cookery in attending upon pleasure never regards either the nature or reason of that pleasure to which she devotes herself, but goes straight to her end...
Page 11 - Zweitens, wie, indem jede einzelne immer dieselbe und weder des Entstehens noch des Vergehens fähig ist, sie gleichwohl ganz sicher diese eine sei, seil, für die wir sie halten, dh wie wir zur Erkenntnis der einzelnen Idee gelangen , da die Ideen außerhalb der Sphäre des Entstehens und Vergehens liegen, innerhalb deren wir uns befinden.
Page xxiii - The conception of unity in variety is the indispensable basis of that idea of system or totality of interdependent parts, which was destined to be the structure erected by modern speculation upon the definite foundation laid by the Greek thinkers. The relation of whole to part — a slightly more concrete expression for unity in variety — has never been more perfectly elucidated and more justly appreciated than by Plato and Aristotle, and it is in recognising the satisfaction afforded to the mind...
Page xxiii - ... Plato and Aristotle . . . Moreover the relation of the one to the many or of the part to the whole is represented in comparative purity by geometric figures, or again by rhythmic or spatial intervals that bear numerical relation to one another. And for this reason Greek philosophy is inclined to select form, ratio, or proportion as the pure and typical embodiment of beauty.
Page 205 - Wahrheit aber beruht auf der inneren Einheit, und wo eine Mehrheit von Theilen vorhanden ist, beruht diese Einheit wesentlich auf Maass und Ebenmaass So bildet das Maass das Fundament von diesen Dreien... das Hauptmerkmal der Idee des Guten.
Page xxvi - the sense of supreme and absolute reality belongs in a much higher degree than to the Nature of modern or even of Aristotelian philosophy.
Page vi - Poste ('The Philebus of Plato, with a Revised Text and English Notes,
Page 14 - ... haec ego mecum conpressis agito labris ; ubi quid datur oti, inludo chartis. hoc est niediocribus illis ex uitiis unum ; cui si concederé nolis, 140 multa poetarum ueniat manus, auxilio quae sit mihi : nam multo plures sumus, ac ueluti te ludaei cogemus in hanc concederé turbam.
Page lxii - Er zeu gte s jener einen Potenz erscheint, so leuchtet die Unmöglichkeit ein, den Verfasser des Dialogs mit Plato zu identificiren, welcher die Zahlen sogar an die Spitze der Ideenwelt als deren Ursprung stellte. Wie weit sich der Philebus vom Geiste der plat. Philosophie entfernt, zeigt sich ferner bei Betrachtung der Weise, wie er der plat. Ideenlehre gedenkt und deren Verhältniss zur Dialektik, endlich, wie er letztere selbst auffasst. Zu diesem Ende muss die viel gerühmte Stelle, wo besonders...
Page 168 - Whatever similar attributes the eternal nature may be deemed to have attained,' Plato 3, p. 219. And Mr Grote paraphrases thus: 'With everything else analogous, which we can believe to be of eternal nature,' Plato 2, p. 617. The true construction can only be settled by a consideration of some Platonic doctrine. "To Mr Poste and Mr Jowett it must be conceded that Plato is fond of placing the object of the verb first ; this would certainly favour making rrçV a'tSiov ф-wnv the subject, but the following...