restricted to ethics, 134, 139; analytical, 131; opposed to doubting, 123; his deviation from original ground of Greek thought, 231; free enquiry of, 291; new mode of thought, 182; did not discourse on the All, 134; explanation by analogy, 265; maxim that virtue consists in knowledge, 241; makes the highest business of man know- ing the Good, 248; few definite opinions, 139; method, 120, 182, 240, 241; methodical pursuit of knowledge, 106, 124, 169, 259, 372; narrowness of position of, 240; enunciated a new truth to his contemporaries, 165; con- vinced men of ignorance, 206; spirit of, 246, 248; always goes back to conceptions, 93, 120, 121, 48, 264, 292, 295; overrated knowledge, 260; in- troduced dialectic, 39; ideal- ism of, 42; view of injuring others, 170; theory of proof, 131; chief merit, 131; philo- sophical greatness, 191 Socrates, Political views of, 228; anti-republican sentiments, 168, 211; high ideas of the State, 167 prejudice against, 205, 208 principles of, developed by Plato, 49, 169
-, pupils of, 211, 236, 237, 370 relation to the Sophists, 55, 67 169, 187, 188, 189, 190, 203, 216, natural science, 124; value of geometry, 134; science foreign to, 137, 172; relation of means and ends, 137
Theology of, an appendix to ethics, 139; Reason of the world, 175; providence, 177; divine element in man, 178 Writings of, 98
Socratic philosophy, 374; asks What things are in themselves,
40; different from what had preceded, 39; developed by Plato, 42, 391; leads to Idealism, 42; peculiar character of, 43; imperfectly represented in So- cratic Schools, 51; different aspects of, 390, 389; scanty notices of, in Aristotle, 101; knowledge the centre of, 44, 106; disputes about the cha- racter of, 117; moral views of, 45, 109; comprehensive cha- racter of, 47; developed, 47; subjective character of, 116; two branches of, united by Zeno, 253
Socratic School, a loose association of admirers, 68; a branch of, established by Euclid, 250; Cy- renaic branch of, 337 Socratic Schools, imperfect at- tempts to expand Socratic prin- ciple, 50, 391; starting points for Stoicism, 50, 1, 247; diverge from Socrates, 248; disintegra- tion of, 389; cover the same ground as Socrates, 50; doctrine of pleasure finds a place in, 160; friendship defended by, 163; founders of, 247; inconsisten- cies of, 386; followers of So- crates, 387; their importance, 389, 390; doctrine of oneness of virtue and knowledge, 312; independence of wants, 315 Socratic dialogues, 159, 184; doc- trine of morals, 159; education, 243; Eros, 124, 126; Ethics, 240; idea of a ruler, 242; knowledge of self, 121; method, 125; mode of teaching, 241; search for conceptions, 48; thoughts, 244; teaching, 159, 182, 245; view, 48; type of virtue, 74; doctrine of virtue, 140; conception of virtue, 147; circle, 327; traits in Aristippus, 372
Socratic teaching, various ele- ments in, 391
Solon's constitution re-established, 31
Sophist, Socrates taken for a, 210;
meaning of the term, 190; An- tisthenes in the capacity of, 285
'Sophistes,' the, of Plato, 266 Sophistic tendencies, practical effect of, 2; teaching, 2, 114; enquiries, 2; influence of, views, 311, 338 Sophists call everything in ques- tion, 1; Euripides related to the better, 16; rationalising spirit of, 26; avow selfish prin- ciples, 28; introduce systematic education, 55; public teachers, 67; little dependence placed in, by Socrates, 66, dogmatism overthrown by, 112; believe real knowledge impossible, 112;, meet the want of the age with skill, 113; recognise unsatis- factoriness of older culture, 114; caprice of, 116, 117; destroyed the contending views of natural philosophers, 124; ignorance their leading thought, 124; con- tests with, 133; made education a necessary for statesmen, 169; travellers, 4; impart an electri- cal shock to their age, 186; their relation to Socrates, 187, 188, 333; moral teaching of older, 190; draw philosophy away from nature to morals, 191; failure of, 191; their hatred of Socrates, 203; did not take part in his accusation, 203, 205; small political influence of, 204; rhetorical display of, 216; Schools of, 218; pernicious in- fluence of, 218; corrupters of the people, 218; arguments of, 265; hold that every object can only be called by its own pecu-
liar name, 296; required pay- ment for instruction, 339; views on knowledge and pleasure, 387; diversities of, 387
Sophistry, a narrower limitation of Socrates' teaching, 388; ten- dency to, 387
Sophocles, illustrating problem of philosophy, 6, 10; difference between, and Æschylus, 12 Sophroniscus, father of Socrates, 54, 1
Sorites, the, of Megarians, 266; attributed to Eubulides, 268 Sparta, 230
Spartan education, 243
Spartans, Cyrus the friend of, 230
State, the, views of Socrates on, 165-168
Stilpo, a Megarian philosopher, 260; friend of Thrasymachus, 252; placed highest good in apathy, 277; his captiousness, 277; rejects every combination of subject and predicate, 276; denies that general conceptions can be applied to individual things, 260; an object of won- der to his contemporaries, 253; learnt Cynicism from Diogenes, 253; united teaching of Mega- rian and Cynic Schools, 284; his free views on religion, 283 Stoa, Stilpo the precursor of, 253, 284; took the Cynic principles, 335, 390
Stobæus, quotes the words of Dio- genes, 308
Stoicism, an outcome of Cynicism, 50
Stoics, hold a standard of know- ledge to be possible, 45; their apathy, 46, 117; later philoso- phers, 105; consider Socrates the inaugurator of a new philo- sophical epoch, 100; declare personal conviction the standard
of truth, 116; views of indi- vidual independence, 161, 382; comprehensive system of, 283; secure freedom by suicide, 319; in advance of Cynics, 381 Subjective character of the theory of Socrates, 116, 117
Tragedy, Greek, involves a con- tradiction, 7; analysis of, 5 Tribon, the, 316 Trojan War, legend of, 3
Superficial treatment of morals UNITY, Greek, in Socratic age,
Utility, the practical test of vir- tue, 124; with Socrates, 134
IRTUE, Socratic type of, 73;
Xenophon, 74, 79; Plato's de- VIRTU
TALTHYBIUS, in Euripides, 18
Tartarus, received notions re- specting, 24
Teiresias explains birth of Bacchus, 17
Test science of truth, 44 'Theætetus,' the, 125
Thebans, Simmias and Cebes two, 246
Theodorus called the Atheist, a pupil of Aristippus, 342, 376; not altogether satisfied with Aristippus, 379; his pupils Bio and Euemerus, 343, 378; won- tonly attacks popular faith, 367; considers pleasure and pain neither good nor bad in them- selves, 379, 383
Thessaly, visited by Sophists, 4 Thessalian legend of Poseidon, 26 Thrasybulus, 211, 225
Thrasymachus of Corinth, 251,
Thucydides illustrating the pro-
blem of philosophy, 27; a mat- ter-of-fact writer, 27 Timæus of Plato, 137
Titan in Eschylus, 9, 13 Tragedians, illustrating the philo- sophy of, 4
Socratic doctrine that virtue is knowledge, 140; Socratic conception of, 156; Cynic notion of, 310
Xenophon, 179, 239; a pupil of Socrates, 212; his account of Socrates, 72, 73, 76, 89, 91, 137, 170, 171, 181, 182, 184, 185, 155, 116, 159, 161; of the dauóviov, 84; his Memorabilia,' 72, 75, 78, 102, 132, 167, 183; objection raised by, 80; Symposium, 79, 74; and Plato as authorities, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102; writings of, 98; supposed popular philoso- phy of, 99; description chal- lenged, 135, 183; true, 161, 181; on nature, 134; agreement with Plato and Aristotle, 181; vindi- cated against Schleiermacher, 183; Apology of, 205; reply to charges, 221; sketch of an ideal ruler, 243
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