A History of Western Philosophy
finance. He tried the same sort of plan on many people, including the war minister; but it was decided that it was easier to sil ...
Athenian law, to propose some lesser penalty than death. The judges had to choose, if they had found the accused guilty, between ...
indictment, the more so as he does not know who are the men from whom it comes, except in the case of Aristophanes. * He points ...
who are the people who improve the young. Meletus first mentions the judges; then, under pressure, is driven, step by step, to s ...
Anytus may perhaps kill him, or drive him into exile, or deprive him of civil rights; and he may imagine, and others may imagine ...
men are gifted with prophetic power. And I prophesy to you, who are my murderers, that immediately after my departure punishment ...
There seems hardly any doubt that the historical Socrates claimed to be guided by an oracle or daimon. Whether this was analogou ...
His endurance was simply marvellous when, being cut off from our supplies, we were compelled to go without food--on such occasio ...
that he thinks it important to examine such questions. The Platonic Socrates consistently maintains that he knows nothing, and i ...
method to geometrical problems, he has to ask leading questions which any judge would disallow. The method is in harmony with th ...
CHAPTER XII The Influence of Sparta TO understand Plato, and indeed many later philosophers, it is necessary to know something o ...
portion of wine and fruit annually. * Anything beyond this amount was the property of the helot. The helots were Greeks, like th ...
pected to live on the produce of his lot, which he could not alienate except by free gift. None was allowed to own gold or silve ...
got twice as much to eat as any one else, and there was general mourning when one of them died. They were members of the Council ...
everything else was sacrificed to success in war, and Sparta ceased to have any part whatever in what Greece contributed to the ...
After the war, the Spartans erected a memorial on the battlefield of Thermopylae, saying only: "Stranger, tell the Lacedaemonian ...
expected. For... when Lycurgus, as tradition says, wanted to bring the women under his laws, they resisted, and he gave up the a ...
though admirable fighters, made no conquests, because they expended their military fury mainly on each other. It was left to the ...
the practice of it into Sparta: where setting the merchants, artificers, and labourers every one a part by themselves, he did es ...
Children, from the first, were subjected to a severe hardening process, in some respects good--for example, they were not put in ...
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