fect Schools, 50; introduces in- ductive method, 129; his notices of Socratic philosophy, 101, 104, 137; agree with those of Plato, 181, 182; and supplement those of Xenophon, 183; his view of the chief merit of Socrates, 132; attacked by Eubulides, 251; de- nies that any propositions are false, 301; gives logic to the Stoics, 391
Aristotle of Cyrene, a contem- porary of Theodore, 344 Aristoxenus, account of Socrates, 58, n.; disparaging, 70, 2 Asceticism of Neoplatonists, 46; of Antisthenes, 305; of post- Aristotelians, 45
Asclepiades removes Elean School to Eretria, 280
Asiatic, the state of Xenophon an A. kingdom, 244
Aspasia, teacher of Socrates, 57; a friend of Socrates, 166 Athenian polish, 73; taste, 80; de- mocracy, 169, 194, 223; popular men, 29; people victims, 30; tragedians, 4 Athenians, 198, 211, 228; guilt of,
233, 234; repentance of, 201 Athens, central position of, 3; legendary history of, 28; plague of, 28; citizens of, 31; their ad- vantages, 31; state of, after Peloponnesian war, 28, 29, 30; intellectual movement going on at, 54, 55, 183; the abode of So- crates, 193, 230; state of public opinion, 234; political intrigues of, 51; not governed by Sophists, 204; fall of, 218; old constitu- tion re-established by enemies of Sophists, 219; ancient glory of, 219; Gods of, 214; Aristippus led to Athens, 337 Atomists, views of, known to Socra- tes, 57
Atreus, story of house of, 8
Clinomachus, 251 Clytemnestra, of Eschylus, 13; of Euripides, a doubter, 18 “Clouds,' the, of Aristophanes, suggested by Anytus, 203, 206; attack Socrates as a Sophist, 210, 215; scope of, 214; portrait in, 215, 61, n. 1. Comedians, illustrating the pro- blem of philosophy, 29 Conceptions, theory of, characte- ristic of the Socratic Era, 39, 40, 109; importance of, for So- crates, 131; defined, 41; com- mon to Plato and Aristotle, 42; developed, 47; formation of, 128; proof by, 128, 130; rejected by Euclid, 259; developed to Nominalism by Cynics, 297 [see Dialectic]
Condemnation of Socrates, 198; causes of, 202; not the work of the Sophists, 202; not due to personal animosity, 205; real causes of, 213; justice of, 220 Connus, reputed teacher of So- crates, 56, 1
Contemporaries, relation of Socra- tes to, 231
Conviction, personal, insisted on by Socrates, 227 Corinth, 251
Corybantic mysteries, 33
Crates, a pupil of Diogenes, 288; speaks approvingly of culture, 293; displays art, 334 Critias, Sophistic moralising of, 211; fascinated by the wisdom of Socrates, 183; a pupil of Socrates, 221; the most unscru- pulous of the oligarchs, 211 'Crito,' the, of Plato, 152 Cronos, surname of Apollonius, 251; and of Diodorus, 252 Custom, distinction between, and philosophy, 312
Cynicism, traces of, in Stilpo's moral teaching, 276, 277
Cynics, 284; history of, 284; teach- ing of, 291; morality of, 160, 301; practice of, 314; influence on the world, 331; go back to Eleatic doctrine, 248; depreciate knowledge, 295; Nominalism of, 300; declare contradiction impossible, 301; negative side of morality, 310; positive side, 312; good and evil, 301; virtue, 310; wisdom and folly, 313; re- nunciation of self, 315, 358, 370; renunciation of society, 319, 379; the family, 320; civil life, 322; immodesty, 326; rejection of religion, 276, 327; their views combined with those of Mega- rians by Stilpo, 275, 284; said to have studied Ethics exclu- sively, 344
Cynic School, a development of the Socratic, 50, 162, 247; follows the path of self-denial, 373 Cyrenaics, 337; history of, 337; teaching of, 344; go back to Protagoras, 248; practical life of, 361; position of their system, 369; relation of their philosophy to Socrates, 369, 374; of their moral teaching, 372; of their political views, 374; later, 376; general position of, 346; view of happiness, 45, 346; importance attached to feelings, 346, 352, 358; doctrine of pleasure, 160, 352; the highest good, 354 ; modified view of, 356; consider all notions relative, 348; as- sumed a sceptical attitude to- wards knowledge, 348, 351; deny that any pleasures are bad in themselves, 356; admit degrees of pleasure, 357; happiness not the satisfaction of animal in- stincts, 359; philosophy how connected with Euemerus, 367; employ outer world for their own ends, 373
Cyrenaic School, a development of the Socratic, 50, 247; separate branches of, 343; views advo- cated within, 376 Cyrene, 251
Cyropædeia, the, of Xenophon, 245
Cyrus, expressions of the dying, 179, 242; intimacy of Xenophon with, 212
AAIMONION, of Socrates, 66, n. 1,
81; false views of, 82; not a genius, 82; regarded as a pri- vate oracle, 84, 89, 96; its field limited, 90; instances of its in- tervention, 86; not the same as conscience, 91; philosophical view of, 94; said to be substi- tuted for God, 220; its position in relation to the popular belief,
Damon, reputed teacher of So- crates, 56, n. 1
Death of Socrates, 200, 201; re- sults of, 235
Socrates' view of, 179 Defence of Socrates, 196, 197 Delos, sacred ship, delays the execution of Socrates, 201 Delphic oracle confirms Socrates in his course of life, 60, and n. 3, 122, n. 1; God, 108 Demetrius Poliorcetes, 277 Demosthenes, a pupil of Eubulides, 251
Depreciation of knowledge by Cy- nics, 291; limits to, 293 Destruction, views of Diodorus on, 272
Details of the trial of Socrates, 194-200 Dialectic, a criticism of what is, 133; the art of forming con- ceptions, 39; a characteristic of Socratic period, 40; the foun- dation of Plato's system, 39 [see Conceptions, Knowledge]
Dialectical tendency supreme in Socrates, 39
Didactic poetry illustrating philo- sophy in fifth century, B.C., 21 Dike, Eschylus' conceptions of, 8 Dioclides, 251
Diodorus, captiousness of, 269; views on Motion, 269; on De- struction, 272; on the Possible, 272; surnamed Cronos, 252; teacher of Philo, 254
Diogenes, initiates Stilpo into Cynic doctrine, 253; a native of Sinope and pupil of Antisthenes, 287; uses expressions in favour of culture, 293; recommends justice, 308; his asceticism, 320; averse to marriage, 321; allows marriage of relations, 322; Plato's view of, 331; theory and practice overlap with, 369
testimony of, to line of argu- ment pursued in Euclid's time, 265 Diotima, teacher of Socrates, 57, I Dissen, view on authorities for Socrates' life, 100 Dodona, doves of, 26 Droyosen, view of Aristophanes, 217, n.
EDUCATION of Socrates, 55, 56,
3, 57, n. 1, 3 Egyptian priestesses in Herodotus, 26
Elean-Eretrian School, 279-283; history of, 279; teaching of, 281
Eleatic doctrine of the One and All, 264, 265; difference be- tween sensual and rational knowledge, 260; revived by Cynics, 248; also by Megarians, 250
Eleatics, subtleties of, 255; doc- trines of, 284
Electra of Euripides, 16, 17
Elis, 253 Elysium, received notions re- specting, 24
Empedocles, views of, known to Socrates, 57 Epicharmus, 21
Epicurean view of happiness, 45; apathy, 46 Epicureanism, an outcome of Cyrenaic School, 50 Epicureans, on the attainment of knowledge, 45; make personal conviction the standard of truth, 116; fond of slander, 70 Epicurus, placed the highest good in freedom from pain, 354; gave a new form to the philo- sophy of pleasure, 376; doctrine of Aristippus reappears in, 391 Eristic, Megarian, 285; that of Euclid, 266; of Eubulides, 268; of Alexinus, 268; of Diodorus, 269; of Philo, 273; of Stilpo, 274
Eros, a passionate attachment grounded on æsthetic feeling, 76; described, 124, 125, 165 Eretrians, 283
Ethics, the substance of the teach- ing of Socrates, 132-148, 172, 242 [see Morals]; exclusively studied by Aristippus, 345 Eubulides, captiousness of, 267; writes against Aristotle, 251; the teacher of Demosthenes, 251 Euclid, an intelligent thinker, 156; fascinated by the attractions of Socrates, 183; founder of a Socratic School, the Megarian, 247, 249, 266; makes use of Eleatic doctrines, 259, 265; influenced by Heraclitus, 259; sees true being in incorporeal species, 259; a counterpart to Plato, 259; rejects the Platonic Ideas, 260; denies that capacity exists beyond the time of exer- cise, 261; substitutes the Good
for the One of Parmenides, 262; rejects explanation by analogy, 265; eristic of, 265; denies mo- tion, 272; makes virtue consist in prudence, 304 Eudæmonism of Socrates, 158, 160 Euemerus, the Greek rationalist, a pupil of Theodore, 343, 378; connection with Cyrenaics pro- blematical, 367
Eumenides of Eschylus, 9, 13, 16 Euphantus, a pupil of Eubulides, 252
Europa, rape of, in Herodotus, 26 Euripides, illustrating the state of thought in the fifth century, B.C., 6, 14; sceptical verses of, 232; a kindred spirit of the better Sophists, 15; contrasted with Eschylus, 16; a rational- ising poet, 17; despiser of pro- phecy, 17; tragic movement in, 20 Euthydemus, his view of injustice, 130
Evenus, reputed teacher of So- crates, 56, 1
Gods, Socrates charged with re- jecting the, of his country, 213; Cynic views of, 327 Good, the object of knowledge,
147; practically determined by custom and utility according to Socrates, 149; Megarian doc- trine of, 262; placed in apathy by Stilpo, 277; identified with God by Euclid, 263; Cynic doc- trine of Good and Evil, 301; Cyrenaic view of the highest good, 354
Gorgias, Plato's, 152
doubts of, 189, 218, 255; criticism of, 265; a teacher of Antisthenes, 285, 295, 327 Grecian peculiarities in the teach- ing of Socrates, 74, 320 Greece, sweeping changes in, 2; free states of, 3; gods of, in- sulted by Persian expedition, 8; mental development of, 35; change in inner life of, 184; moral life of, 226; attention of, directed to logical criticism, 265
Greek, mode of, thought, 186, 230; morality, 226, 229, 242; faith, 229; problem proposed to phi- losophy in Socrates' time, 2; life involves a contradiction, 7; morality debased, 76; peculiar- ity, 166; progress of, 392; pre- judice against manual labour,
Hegesias, a Cyrenaic pupil of An- tipater, 343, 376; adheres to the maxims of Aristippus, 380; considers life full of trouble, 381; identifies pleasure with the good, 383; denies the position of Aristippus, 385 Helen, story of, 26 Hellas united, 3 Heraclitus, doctrines of, conveyed to Sicily by Sophists, 4; views of, known to Socrates, 57; idea of God, 176; early scepticism of, 243; view of the phenomenal world, 259; his doctrine of the perpetual flux of things, 350 Hercules, patron saint of the Cy- nics, 306; a doubter in Euri- pides, 18
Hermæ, mutilation of, 207, 214 Herodotus, exemplifying the state
of culture in Greece in fifth century, B.C., 24; piety and credulity of, 25, 27; a friend of Sophocles, 24; but a doubter, 26 Hesiod, verses of, quoted by So- crates, 222
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