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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

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-, 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,

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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

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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-

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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

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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

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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,

by Socrates, 155

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Utility, the practical test of vir-
tue, 124; with Socrates, 134

IRTUE, Socratic type of, 73;

Xenophon, 74, 79; Plato's de- VIRTU

scription of, 215

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,

252

Thucydides illustrating the pro-

blem of philosophy, 27; a mat-
ter-of-fact writer, 27
Timæus of Plato, 137

Timon, 255

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

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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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