Socratic philosophy
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This reactionary tendency in Socratic philosophy appears nowhere more plainly than in the field of religion.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg
See also Daimonion of S. Socratic philosophy, 64, 87, 149.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg
Socrates was put to death, but the Socratic philosophy rose like the sun in heaven, and spread its illumination over the whole intellectual firmament.
From On Liberty by Mill, John Stuart
It is in Plato and Aristotle that the true development of the Socratic philosophy is to be sought, and in Plato chiefly, as the disciple and friend of Socrates.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
His work represents one great aspect of Socratic philosophy, and should be compared with the Cyrenaic and Megarian doctrines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
