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Logic IV 94
Republic can hardly be said to show any falling off. The development of thought was so very considerable from one to another that I should be inclined to reckon the chronology as shown in this table:
400 BC Apology
395
Charmides
Iaches
Eultydamus
Protagoras
Republic I
Meno
390
Travels
385
Gondiss [?]
Cratyus [?]
Republic X
Symposium
380
Phaedo
Republic VIII IX
Republic II III IV
375
370
Republic V VI VII
Phaedrus
Theartetus
Pariendides Philebus
365
2nd Visit to Syracuse
360
Sophis
3rd visit to Syracuse
355
Politicus
350
Timecus
Laws
345
But when Plato came to put the different parts of the Republic together he was induced to enlarge the plan of it. For on thing it was a characteristic of his as of the majority of moralist that things of which he had not a high opinion he had a low opinion. NOw he had not a high opinion of women and I suppose he longed to put them in their proper place. Then he derives to present a picute of the character of the philosopher and finally he wished to show the relation of human knowledge to the eternal verities.
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