The Philosophical Review/Volume 1/Summary: Appel - Zur Echtheitsfrage des Dialoges Sophistes
Zur Echtheitsfrage des Dialogs Sophistes. E. Appel. Ar. f. G. Ph., V, 1, pp. 55-60.
This article is called forth by an article of Schaarschmidt's in the Rhein.-Mus. (Neue Folge, XVIII, p. 1 ff.), in which the Sophistes was held to be unauthentic. Schaarschmidt's objection to Sophistes is based on the fact that the idealistic doctrine, which is attacked in Sophistes 246, 248, and 249, is identical with the Platonic doctrine as we find it in dialogues of undoubted authenticity. The Platonic teaching of the holiness and exaltedness of the world of ideas is ridiculed in Sophistes. A., without discussing the view of Schaarschmidt, gives the passages in the Sophistes, along with those in the undoubtedly genuine dialogues, in which mention is made of the doctrine of ideas.