The Works of Walter Pater
The Works of Walter Pater
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Socrates, with all his singleness of purpose, had been, as Alcibiades suggested, by natural con- ^itution a twofold power, an embodied paradox.
The infinitely significant Socrates of Plato, and the quite simple Socrates of Xenophon, may have been indeed the not incompatible opposi- tions of a nature, from the influence of which, ^ a matter of fact, there emerged on one hand the Cynic, on the other the Cyrenaic School, embodying respectively those opposed austerities and amenities of character, ...which, according to .
^t^e temper of this or that disciple, had seemedP^S'^ PLATO AND PLATONISM any one else would have acted in that matter of the legal appeal which might have miti- gated the penalty of death, bringing to its appro- priate end a life whose main power had been an unrivalled independence, was contrasted in Socrates, paradoxically, with a genuine diffi- dence about his own convictions which explains some peculiarities in his manner of teaching.
The irony, the humour, for which he was famous — the unfailing humour which some have found in his very last words — were not merely spontaneous personal traits, or tricks of manner ; but an essential part of the dialectical apparatus, as affording a means of escape from responsibility, convenient for one who has scruples about the fitness of his own thoughts for the reception of another, doubts as to the power of words to convey thoughts, such as he thinks cannot after all be properly conveyed to another, but only awakened, or brought to birth in him, out of himself, — who can tell with what distortions in that secret place ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Socrates, with all his singleness of purpose, had been, as Alcibiades suggested, by natural con- ^itution a twofold power, an embodied paradox.
The infinitely significant Socrates of Plato, and the quite simple Socrates of Xenophon, may have been indeed the not incompatible opposi- tions of a nature, from the influence of which, ^ a matter of fact, there emerged on one hand the Cynic, on the other the Cyrenaic School, embodying respectively those opposed austerities and amenities of character, ...which, according to .
^t^e temper of this or that disciple, had seemedP^S'^ PLATO AND PLATONISM any one else would have acted in that matter of the legal appeal which might have miti- gated the penalty of death, bringing to its appro- priate end a life whose main power had been an unrivalled independence, was contrasted in Socrates, paradoxically, with a genuine diffi- dence about his own convictions which explains some peculiarities in his manner of teaching.
The irony, the humour, for which he was famous — the unfailing humour which some have found in his very last words — were not merely spontaneous personal traits, or tricks of manner ; but an essential part of the dialectical apparatus, as affording a means of escape from responsibility, convenient for one who has scruples about the fitness of his own thoughts for the reception of another, doubts as to the power of words to convey thoughts, such as he thinks cannot after all be properly conveyed to another, but only awakened, or brought to birth in him, out of himself, — who can tell with what distortions in that secret place ?
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