The Divided Line and Plato's 'Theory, of Intermediates'

Abstract

IN THIS essay I shall enter into the vexing question of Plato's of intermediates, and the relation of this theory to the Sun, Line and Cave section of Republic VI and VII. My thesis is that in the last 7j years or so scholarly opinion has reached a complete impasse, having veered from one extreme to another, rather in the fashion of an Hegelian thesis and antithesis; this conflict of opinion desperately requires a synthesizing third, and in the conclusion of the paper I try to supply this ,third.,