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| タイトル | ： 第三回 |
| 投稿日 | ： 2003/10/04(Sat) 08:57 |
| 投稿者 | ： 惣田正明 <vem13077@> |
第三回テキスト
---はじめ---
Again, Plato may be regarded as the "captain" ('arhchegoz')
or leader of a goodly band of followers; for in the Republic
is to be found the original of Cicero's De Republica, of St.
Augustine's City of God, of the Utopia of Sir Thomas More,
and of the numerous other imaginary States which are framed
upon the same model. The extent to which Aristotle or the
Aristotelian school were indebted to him in the Politics has
been little recognized, and the recognition is the more
necessary because it is not made by Aristotle himself. The
two philosophers had more in common than they were conscious
of; and probably some elements of Plato remain still
undetected in Aristotle. In English philosophy too, many
affinities may be traced, not only in the works of the
Cambridge Platonists, but in great original writers like
Berkeley or Coleridge, to Plato and his ideas. That there is
a truth higher than experience, of which the mind bears
witness to herself, is a conviction which in our own
generation has been enthusiastically asserted, and is perhaps
gaining ground. Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance
brought a new life into the world Plato has had the greatest
influence. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise
upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke,
Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate
descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of
another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the
un unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a
real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature
on politics. Even the fragments of his words when "repeated
at second-hand" have in all ages ravished the hearts of men,
who have seen reflected in them their own higher nature. He
is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics, in
literature. And many of the latest conceptions of modern
thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity of knowledge, the
reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have been
anticipated in a dream by him.
---終わり---