Excerpt from Six Essays on the Platonic Theory of Knowledge: As Expounded in the Later Dialogues and Reviewed by Aristotle
The following essays, written during my tenure of a studentship at Newnham College, Cambridge, were the outcome of a genuine interest in the Platonic controversy, and of a desire to satisfy myself, by independent study, regarding the doctrines that the later dialogues seem to teach. In a subject that has for so long been the source of disagreements one can scarcely hope to produce a work that will commend itself to every critic, or to bridge in any degree the chasm that already yawns between the two leading schools of interpretation; and I must own frankly, at once, that I belong to the school that sees in the later work of Plato a fuller development and elaboration of the ideal scheme which was at first but vaguely sketched. It is not the spirit of controversy, however, but the hope for a better understanding of this position on the part of other controversialists, that has led me to publish these papers. In preparing them I have not neglected to make myself acquainted with the position taken by other schools; but that I am chiefly indebted to the Platonic scholars of Cambridge cannot be denied.
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