Excerpt from The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature: Plato Moral and Political Ideals

When the Editor invited me to contribute this volume to the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature, he wrote that he wished for "a clear account, intelligible to the plain man, of what Plato did in the moral and political sphere." Recently the difficulty of deciding what was Plato's teaching in any part of his philosophy has greatly increased. The publication in 1911 of Professor A. E. Taylor's Varia Socratica, First Series, and of Professor J. Burnet's Introduction to his edition of the Phaedo has obliged all students of Plato to reconsider their position. These two writers hold, to put it briefly, that neither Xenophon nor Aristotle knew much about Socrates, except what they learnt through Plato and his school, and that therefore the works of Plato are practically the only source of our knowledge of Socrates.

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