The Dialogues of Plato: Volume IV. - Couverture souple

Jowett, B

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3742808206 ISBN 13 : 9783742808202

Editeur : Hansebooks, 2016

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The style of theL aws, xxiii barmony which are exhibited in the earlier dialogues. For Plato is Law, incapable of sustained composition; his genius is dramatic rather I ntkoducthan oratorical; he can converse, but he cannot make a speech. -E ven the Timaeus, which is one of his most finished works, is full of abrupt transitions. There is the same kind of difference between the dialogue and the continuous discourse of Plato as between the narrative and speeches ofT hucydides. 3. The perfection of style is variety in unity, freedom, ease, deamess, the power of saying anything, and of striking any note in the scale of human feelings without impropriety; and such is the divine gift of language possessed by Plato in theS ymposium and Phaedrus. From this there are many fallings-off in theL aws: first, in the structure of the sentences, which are rhythnucal and monotonous, the formal and sophistical manner of the age is soperseding the natural genius of Plato: secondly, many oft are of enormous length, and the latter end often forgets the beginning of them, they seem never to have received the second thoughts of the author; either the emphasis is wrongly placed, or ere is a want of point in a clause; or an absolute case occurs which is not properly separated from the rest of the sentence; or wds arc aggregated in a manner which fails to show their elation to one another; or the connecting particles are omitted at the beginning of sentences; the uses of the relative and antecedent are more indistinct, the changes of person and number frequent, examples of pleonasm, tautology, and periphrasis, antitheses of positive and negative, false emphasis, and other nectaiions, are more numerous than in the other writings of ato; there is also a more common and sometimes unmeaning ose of qualifying formulae, cif wrof tmtiv Kara divafuv, and of double Pcssions, irdi navruq oM af
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hansebooks
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3742808206
• ISBN 13: 9783742808202
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 628