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PHILOSOPHY OF SOCRATES.
A. Xenophon and Plato considered as authorities
B. General point of view of Socrates
C. Theory of knowledge of conceptions considered
D. Moral value of this theory
E. Its subjective character.
CHAPTER VI.
THE PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD OF SOCRATES.
B. Virtue is knowledge-the leading thought of the
Socratic Ethics
C. The Good and Eudæmonism-
1. Theoretically Virtue is knowledge about the Good
2. Practically the Good determined by custom or
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utility
3. Inconsistency of Socratic Morality
D. Particular Moral Relations-
1. Personal independence
2. Friendship
3. The State
4. Universal philanthropy
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B. Notion of God and the Worship of God
1. Language about the Gods taken from popular use
2. God conceived as the Reason of the world
3. The Worship of God
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XENOPHON AND PLATO. SOCRATES AND THE SOPHISTS.
A. Value of Xenophon as an authority--
1. Xenophon in harmony with Plato and Aristotle
2. Schleiermacher's objections refuted
B. Importance of Socrates for the age in which he lived
C. Relation of Socrates to the Sophists.
2. Personal animosity only partially the cause
3. Political party-feeling only partially involved
4. The teaching of Socrates generally believed to be
dangerous.
C. Justification of the sentence
1. Unfounded charges brought against Socrates.
2. The views of Socrates subversive of old views of
authority-political life-religion
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3. Relation borne by his views to cotemporary views 231
4. Result of his death
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4. Diodorus on Motion-Destruction-the Possible
5. Philo. The Possible-Hypothetical sentences—
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Meaning of words
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6. Stilpo. Subject and Predicate-the Good-Cynic
D. Practical results of Cynic teaching
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1. Renunciation of Self
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2. Renunciation of Society. Family Life-Civil Life
B. These Schools more closely related to Socrates than to