Love for enemies in Socrates, 170 Lyco, the accuser of Socrates, 194 Lycurgus, 230
μαιευτική τέχνη of Socrates, 125
AN, Socrates' view of the dig- nity of, 178 Marathon, stern race fought at, 10, 230; the remembrance of, inspires Aristophanes, 29 Meaning of words, Philo's view of, 274
Means, relation of, to ends in na- ture, 172
Megara, plunder of, 277; Idealism of School of, 42
Megarian School, 253, 284; an imperfect expansion of Socratic principle, 50, 247; founded by Euclid, 249; primarily critical, 253; history of, 249; doctrine of, 255; approximated to Cyni- cism, 279; merged in Cynicism, 283; teaching, 255, 258, 269; starting point of, 259; develop- ment in, 264
Megarians, go back to Eleatic doctrine, 248; captious logic of, 160, 265, 266; their views of Being and Becoming, 259; of the Good, 263; agree with Plato, 260; attack popular notions, 264; fond of fallacies, 267; later, indebted to Cynics, 275, 277; inconsistencies of, 386 Meiner's view of sources of So- cratic authority, 99
Meletus, the accuser of Socrates,
193, 203, 205, 206; said to have suggested the 'Clouds' to Aris- tophanes, 203; hesitates to ac- cuse Socrates of Sophistry, 221; a defender of ancient morality, 231 'Memorabilia,' the, of Xenophon, 72, 75, 78, 102, 132, 167, 183 Menedemus, 281; attempts of
Alexinus to entangle, in falla- cies, 269; removes Elean School to Eretria, 280; directs atten- tion to moral questions, 281 Menedemus, a later Cynic, 290 Menippus, a later Cynic, 290 Meno's question whether virtue is obtained by exercise or instruc- tion, 313
Method of Socrates, 113 Metrocles, brother of Hipparchia, a Cynic, 289
Military service of Socrates, 66, n. 2
Miltiades, time of, 231 'Mirror,' the, of Cebes, 246 Moderation, the, of Socrates, 72, 74, 161
Modesty suppressed by Cynics, 326
Monimus, a Cynic, expresses him- self in favour of culture, 294
ANETIUS, rejected writings
Moral importance of theory of PANA immias and Cebes, 246
conceptions, 113; particular moral relations discussed by Socrates, 160 Morality, practically determined, according to Socrates, by cus- tom and utility, 149; inconsis- tency of Socrates, 151; super- ficially treated by Socrates, 151; relation of Socrates to older morality, 226; relation of So- crates to cotemporary morality,
Paris, story of, questioned in Euri- pides, 17; in Herodotus, 26 Parmenides, teaching known to Socrates, 57, 58; followed by Euclid, 260; reduced action and passion to the sphere of the Becoming, 260; discovered a contradiction in the Becoming, 261; attributes assigned by him to real being, 262; proved his position directly, 265
Party, Socrates not the victim of a political, 211
Pasicles, a Megarian, younger than Eubulides, 251
Peloponnesian War, Thucydides'
history of, 27; increasing spread of mysteries about time of, 32; views of Socrates fixed about time of, 61; fall of Athens in, 218; period after, 231
Pericles, art in the time of, 3, 10; the age of, 28, 54
Peripatetic School, 50; connected
with Aristotle, 51; strictures on Socrates, 70
Persian War, achievements of, 3; unexpected result of, 8; Socrates born in last years of, 53 Persians, battles with, 6 'Phædo,' Plato's, 59, 137 Phædo, the founder of a Socratic School, the Elean-Eretrian, 247, 279; a native of Elis, 279; the favourite of Socrates, 280; his opinions, 281 'Phædrus,' the, 79
Philo, a Megarian and pupil of Diodorus, 254, 273; his captious- ness, 273
Philolaus, Simmias and Cebes pu- pils of, 246
Philosophic Schools, permanence of, 51
Philosophy, problem proposed to, in fifth century, B.C., 2; problem solved by politics, art, and reli- gion, 2-34; progress of, in fifth century, B.C., 35 seq. Physical Science not dispensed with by Plato, 45
Physics, ethics substituted for, by post-Aristotelian philosophy, 43 Pindar, illustrating the problem
of philosophy, 22, 23: respect for natural talent, 23 Plato, Writings of, 99; his dia- logues, 100, 181, 183; most his- torical of, 170; his Apology,' 179, 215; on the Megarians, 257; agrees with, 260; and Xeno- phon as authorities, 99; de- scribes Euclid's method, 265 -, His portrait of Socrates, 101;
calls Socrates the wisest and best of men, 73; praises his social virtues, 75; describes him as a perfect thinker, 105; speaks of his peculiar moderation, 75; his use of the term Eros, 76; his singularity, 77; his outward appearance, 78; the apparent
shallowness of his discourses, 80; speaks of the dauóviov of Socrates, 84, 85, 87, 89; speaks of Socrates' attitude towards natural science, 137; veils the shallowness of Socrates' theory of virtue, 155; mentions what told most against Socrates at the trial, 205, 207, 217; asso- ciates Socrates with Aristo- phanes, 210, 216; his language about Anytus, 203, 205, 206; value of Plato's testimony con- sidered, 91, 92; his agreement with Xenophon, 92, 154, 171, 181, 188; with Aristotle, 137 -, Philosophy of, considered So- crates a deep thinker, 96; his system the fruit of Socrates, 138, 187; but more developed, 41, 141, 392; influenced by im- perfect Socratic Schools, 50, 51; regards species as living forces, 260; dialectic, 270; the founda- tion of his system, 40; his idealism, 42, 48, 49; advance from sensible beauty to moral beauty, 46; essential concep- tions found in all things, 131; his teaching concerning the State, 46, 169; his physical in- quiries, 45; reality of concep- tion, 47, 59; difference between him and Aristotle, 49; the bloom of Greek philosophy, 49; influenced by imperfect Socratic Schools, 50; his description of Simmias and Cebes, 246; speaks of Cynic definition knowledge as tautological, 312; his view of Diogenes, 331 Platonic distinction between cus- tom and philosophy, 312; ideas,
Platonist, Menedemus said to have been a, 283 Plistanus, an Elean philosopher, successor to Phædo, 280
Politics, little importance attached to, by Socrates, 228 Polyeuctus, said to have taken part in accusing Socrates, 194, n. 2.
Poseidon, intervention of, 26 Possible, the view of Diodorus on,
272; view of Philo, 273 Post-Aristotelian philosophy, sub- stitutes Ethics for Physics, 44; one-sidedness of Schools, 47; extreme individualism of, 117 Predicate, combination of subject and, rejected by Stilpo, 275 Pre-Socratic philosophy resting on tradition, 38; a study of nature, 39, 46; aided by Plato, 51 Prodicus, teacher of Socrates, 57 Progress, rapid intellectual, of So- cratic age, 2, 3
Prometheus of Eschylus, 9 Protagoras, doubts of, 18, 189, 248; negative teaching of, 248; makes man the measure of all things, 116; considers all notions rela- tive, 350; considers feelings the result of internal motion, 352, 374
Providence, belief in natural, 174 Providential care of God, 177 Prytaneum, Athens the, of the wis- dom of Greece, 4; Socrates de- served to be publicly entertained in the, 200
Pyrrho, his philosophy of doubt, 255; branched off from the School of Megara, 391 Pythagorean traditions, 19; league, 164
EALISM, knowledge of concep-
Reason, God conceived as the, of the world, 176, 262; the only thing which gives a value to life, 310
Reisig, his view of the character of Socrates, 215
Religion, the position of Socrates subversive of, 229; denied by the Cynics, 327 Republic, Plato's, 152 Rousseau's wild fancies, 32
SCEPTICISM of Socratic era,
117; in Euripides, 16, 18; in Herodotus, 26; in the masses, 34; an outcome of Megarian School, 50
Sceptics, despair of knowledge, 45; imperturbability, 46; resolve truth into probability, 116 Schleiermacher, his view of the daiμóviov, 84; protest against the preference shown for Xenophon, 99; canon of, 100, 104; his ob- jections to Xenophon as a sole authority, 183; discovered Me- garian views in Plato, 256 Self-knowledge, the Socratic, 43, 121
Self-renunciation, the, of the Cy- nics, 315
Sextus criticises the arguments of Diodorus, 271
Sicily visited by Sophists, 4 Sifting of men, the Socratic, 124 Silenus, appearance of Socrates compared by Alcibiades to, 78, 184
Simmias, a Theban, described by Plato as a philosopher, 246 Simon the shoemaker, writings circulated under the name of, spurious, 247
Simonides, illustrating the pro- blem of philosophy, 21; his epi- taph on Leonidas, 77
Sinope, the birthplace of Diogenes, 287
Society, renunciation of, by the Cynics, 319; influence of Cynics on, 331
Socrates, age of, its inheritance, 36; characteristics, 40; authori- ties for, 104
Character of, 52, 212; respected by antiquity, 70; greatness of character, 70; supposed mental struggles, 71; purity, 72; ab- stemiousness, 72, 74, 161; political courage, 73; courage, 201; composure, 201, 363; pious faith, 235; greatness, 235; sen- sible, 83; love of society, 74; love of friends, 194, 211, 164, 76; imbued with Greek pecu- liarities, 74, 76; abstraction, 78, 81; not an insipid ideal of virtue, 74, 203; not a dry mora- list, 108; many-sided sympa- thies, 45; serious side in, 73; cultivated tact, 94; inward con- centration, 81, 96, 97; a Greek and Athenian, 74, 95; eccen- tricity, 77; meditativeness, 78; absence, 81; modesty, 67; sim- plicity of, 338; consciousness of ignorance, 121, 122, 126; flexi- bility, 317; inner life, 94; strength of will, 292; import- ance attaching to his person, 52, 116; his daóviov, 81, 66, n. 1, 82, 84, 89, 96; his aim to train men, 114, 263; portrait, 105, 240; his appearance, 77; accuracy of Xenophon's description chal- lenged, 135
comedy on, 203, 214 -,contemporaries of, 185 - Ethics of, 134, 172, 240; a moral reformer, 114; ethical princi- ples derived from the Sophists, 149; scientific doctrine of morals, 174; defends friend- ships, 163, 164; utility highest standard, 147, 372; value of in- struction, 222; highest object of knowledge, the Good, 147, 262, 263; the oneness of virtue and knowledge, 113, 312; re-
quire independence from wants, 315; Plato's description of, 155 Socrates, followers of, one-sided followers, 44, 45, 51, 236, 375; favourite follower, 280
language of, 151, 152, 163, 184, 185; apparently ridiculous, 79
Life of, youth and early man- hood, 52, 53; date of birth and death, 53, n.; education of, 55; his instructors, 56, n. ; manhood reached before the Sophists in- troduced systematic education, 55; life begun in trade, 159; contentment and simplicity of, 64; married relations, 61, 62, 63; avoided public life, 66; his detractors, 70; respected by Xenophon, 72; military service, 66, 2, 70; personal habits, 105; simple teaching, 230; dis- courses, 102, 184; society, 210; enemies, 207; attacks on, 193, 206, 210, 211, 232; charges against, 210, 211, 220, 229; most fatal, 217; his trial, 196, 213; condemnation, 200, 202; guilt, 202; fate, 235; greatness of, 236; death, 200, 235, 285; place in history, 186
Philosophy of, 250, 253; ap- pearance at a philosophical crisis, 2; different from pre- Socratic, 38; able to take a comprehensive view of science, 4; had no system, 47, 119, 160; begins with self-knowledge, 43; aims at life, 52; philosophical platform, 104; breaks away from previous philosophy, 112; how led to the study of philosophy, 92;ground occupied by, 104, 240; understood the tendencies of the age, 114; breaks away from current opinions, 112; value assigned to them, 111, 129;
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