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Philosophy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Influence on Plato's mind 1 | The political condition of Athens. |
| Influence on Plato's mind 2 | That early in life Plato devoted much attention to poetry, composing poems of no mean artistic value. |
| Influence on Plato's mind 3 | The person influence of Socrates. |
| Principle theory 1 | Plato wrote according to a definite plan, composing first the elementary dialogs, then the mediatory, and finally the constructive discourses. |
| Principle theory 2 | He had no definite plan, but the dialogues represented the different stages in the development of his mind. |
| Principle theory 3 | That he deliberately portrayed in his dialogues the several stages in the life of Socrates, the ideal philosopher. |
| Zeller's remark | The question has been argues too much on a prior grounds, and suggests that the first thing to do is to determine the order in which the dialogues were written. |
| Dialogue reason 1 | He was influenced by the Socratic method. |
| Dialogue reason 2 | secondly, he was poet enough to recognize the dramatic effect of which the dialogue is capable, and the room which it affords for local coloring and portrayal of character. |
| Dialogue reason 3 | He must have recognized that the dialogue afforded him the amplest opportunity of presenting the life of the model philosopher in the words and acts of the idealized Socrates. |
| Definition of philosophy | Philosophy is the science of the Idea, or as we should say, of the unconditioned basis of phenomena. |
| Divisions of Plato's philosophy | Dialect, physics, ethics. |
| Definition of Dialect | dialectic has for its object to reduce what is manifold and multiple in our experience of phenomena to that unity of concept which belongs to a knowledge of Ideas, and, furthermore, to establish an organic order among the concepts thus acquired. |
| Theory of Ideas study 1 | Origin of the Theory of Ideas. |
| Theory of Ideas study 2 | Nature and objective existence of the Theory of Ideas. |
| Theory of Ideas study 3 | Their expansion into plurality: formation of the world of ideas. |
| Definition of Physic | All the manifestations of the Idea in the world of phenomena. |