AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

DIALOGUES OF PLATO.

BY

W. SEWELL, B.D.

LATE PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. F. & J. RIVINGTON,
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL;
& J. H. PARKER, OXFORD.

HARVARD

COLLEGE
LIBRARY

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

TO THE VERY REVEREND AND REVEREND THE

ELECTORS TO DR. WHITE'S PROFESSORSHIP

OF

Moral Philosophy

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

THESE PAGES

ARE RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.

1753

PREFACE.

THE following pages contain the substance of some articles on Plato, which were permitted by the kindness of the Editor of the British Critic to

appear in that Review. They were intended principally to assist students in forming a right judgment on the general scope and object of the Platonic Dialogues; and the subject may be continued hereafter in some other form. But they are now republished at present with the same hope; and broken up into chapters for the greater convenience of the readers.

Appended to them is another paper, which I have been kindly allowed to reprint from the Quarterly Review, containing some remarks on the rise of the new Platonism, which were thrown together, in per