R. L. Nettleship

The youngest brother of Henry Nettleship, he was educated at Uppingham and Balliol College, Oxford, where he held a scholarship.

[1] Nettleship became fellow and tutor of his college and succeeded to the work of T. H. Green, whose writings he edited with a memoir.

[1] Nettleship left an unfinished work on Plato, part of which was published after his death, together with his lectures on logic and some essays.

[3] His thought was idealistic, embodying elements of Hegelianism but also, in its account of the Platonic Forms (eide, idiai), markedly influenced by a particular reading of the Kantian categories.

Few historians of philosophy would now accept, however, Nettleship's view of the analogy of the Line (509e-511c, 534a) as involving throughout a temporal progression.