GEORG ANTON See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH See also:

• GEORG ANTON FRIEDRICH AST (1778-1841)

AST (1778-1841)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philosopher and philologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha . Educated there and at the university of See also:

• JENA

Jena, he became privat-docent at Jenai 1802 . In 18c5 he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of classical literature in the university of See also:

• LANDSHUT

Landshut, where he remained till 1826, when it was transferred to See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich . There he lived till his See also:

• DEATH

death on the 31st of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1841 . In' recognition of his See also:

• WORK

work he was made an aulic councillor and a member of the Bavarian See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences . He is known principally for his work during the last twenty-five years of his See also:

• LIFE

life on the dialogues of See also:

• PLATO

Plato . His Platmc's Leben and Schriften (1816) was the first of those See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical inquiries into the life and See also:

• WORKS

works of Plato which originated in the Introductions of See also:

• SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST (1768-1834)

Schleiermacher and the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• SCEPTICISM (o-Kesrroµai, I consider, reflect, hesitate, doubt)

scepticism of See also:

• NIEBUHR, BARTHOLD GEORG (1776–1831)
• NIEBUHR, KARSTEN (1733-1815)

Niebuhr and See also:

• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

Wolf . Distrusting tradition, he took a few of the finest dialogues as his See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard, and from See also:

• INTERNAL

internal See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence denounced as See also:

• SPURIOUS

spurious not only those which are generally admitted to be so (Epinomis, See also:

• MINOS

Minos, Theages, Arastae, Clitophon, See also:

• HIPPARCHUS (fl. 146-126 B.c.)

Hipparchus, Eryxias, Letters and See also:

• DEFINITIONS

Definitions), but also the Meno, See also:

• EUTHYDEMUS

Euthydemus, Charmides, Lysis, See also:

• LACHES (from Anglo-French lachesse, negligence, from lasche, modern ldche, unloosed, slack)

Laches, First and Second See also:

• ALCIBIADES (c. 450-404 B.c.)

Alcibiades, Hippias See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

Major and See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor, See also:

• ION

Ion, Euthyphro, See also:

• APOLOGY (from Gr. &aoXoyia, defence)

Apology, Crito, and even (against See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle's explicit assertion) The See also:

• LAWS

Laws . The genuine dialogues he divides into three See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series:—(1) the earliest, marked chiefly by the poetical and dramatic See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element, i.e . See also:

• PROTAGORAS (c. 481-411 B.C.)

Protagoras, See also:

• PHAEDRUS

Phaedrus, See also:

• GORGIAS (c. 483–375 B.C.)

Gorgias, See also:

• PHAEDO

Phaedo; (2) the second, marked by See also:

• DIALECTIC, or DIALECTICS

dialectic subtlety, i.e . Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Parmenides, Cratylus; (3) the third See also:

• GROUP

group, combining both qualities harmoniously, i.e. the Philebus, See also:

• SYMPOSIUM (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avµirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink, root 7ro, cf. Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup)

Symposium, See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic, See also:

• TIMAEUS (c. 345—c. 250 B.e.)

Timaeus, See also:

• CRITIAS

Critias . The work was followed by a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete edition of Plato's works (II vols., 1819–1832) with a Latin See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation and commentary .

His last work was the See also:

• LEXICON

Lexicon Platonicum (3 vols., 1834–1839), which is both valuable and comprehensive . In his works on See also:

• AESTHETICS

aesthetics he combined the views of See also:

• SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON (1775-1854)
• SCHELLING, KAROLINE (1763-1809)

Schelling with those of See also:

• WINCKELMANN, JOHANN JOACHIM (1717-.1768)

Winckelmann, Leasing, See also:

• KANT, IMMANUEL (1724-1804)

Kant, See also:

• HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON (1744-1803)

Herder, See also:

• SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller and others . His histories of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy are marked more by critical scholarship than by originality of thought, though they are interesting as asserting the now See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar principle that the See also:

• HISTORY

history of philosophy is not the history of opinions, but of See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason as a whole; he was among the first to See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to formulate a principle of the development of thought . Beside his works on Plato, he wrote, on aesthetics, See also:

• SYSTEM

System der Kunstlehre (1805) and Grundriss der Aesthetik (1807); on the history of philosophy, Grundlinien der Philosophic (1807, republished 1809, but soon forgotten), Grundriss einer Geschichte der Philosophic (1807 and 1825), and Hauptmomente der Geschichle der Philosophic (1829); in See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology, Grundlinien der Philologie (1808), and Grundlinien der Grammatik, Hcrmeneutik and Kritik (1808) .