A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
denying the national gods, (2) for setting up new gods of his own, (3) for corrupting the youth. All these charges were entirely ...
says Socrates in the “Apology,” “that I have never held any other office in the State, but I did serve on the Council. And it ha ...
certainly brought about his condemnation. There is ev- ery reason to believe that if he had adopted a grovelling, even a concili ...
in and standing near him said, ’Socrates, I shall not have to find that fault with you that I do with the others, that they are ...
even before this had not ceased weeping, and then, bursting into an agony of grief, weeping and lamenting, he pierced the heart ...
Socrates too high, Xenophon puts it too low. But, in spite of this, Xenophon’s Memorabilia contains a mass of valu- able informa ...
yet all reasoning is employed upon concepts. All reasoning is either deductive or inductive. Induction consists in the formulati ...
are, independently of the individual, and such knowledge is knowledge of the concepts of things. Therefore the philos- ophizing ...
it must be because they do not know what is right. The criticism of Aristotle is thus justified. Yet for all that, the theory of ...
position in the history of philosophy. His ethical ideas, sug- gestive as they were, were yet all tainted with the fallacy that ...
never returns either to the individual, or to the race. This can no more happen than a man can again become a child. There is on ...
dividual to the rule of a universal and objective standard. The logical conclusion is that, since each man’s intuition is true f ...
Chapter 24 CHAPTER XI THE SEMI-SOCRATICS Upon the death of Socrates there ensued a phenomenon which is not infrequent in the his ...
and proceeds to erect this one incomplete idea into a phi- losophy, treating the part as if it were the whole. This is exactly w ...
of definitions, Socrates, in fact, left his followers without any definition of the supreme concept of his philosophy, virtue. I ...
and the fool. All men are divided into these two classes. There is no middle term between them. Virtue being one and indivisible ...
solely upon pleasure, restrained by no superstitious scru- ples, yet pursuing his end with prudence, foresight, and intelligence ...
Chapter 25 CHAPTER XII PLATO None of the predecessors of Plato had constructed a system of philosophy. What they had produced, a ...
in the complete downfall of Athens as a political power. And the internal affairs of the State were in no less confu- sion than ...
tyrant of Syracuse. But here his conduct seems to have given grave offence. Dionysius was so angered by his mor- alizings and ph ...
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