Socratic philosophy
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The weak point, to my mind, in the Socratic philosophy, considered in its ethical bearings, was the confounding of virtue with knowledge, and making them identical.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord
The Socratic philosophy had suffered from the Socratic manner of life.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
We designated Socratic philosophy, in its relation to popular belief, as a reaction against the radical free-thought of the sophistic movement.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Ingeborg Andersen
The Socratic philosophy, as expounded by Plato, survived the wrecks of material greatness.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord
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 John Stuart Mill
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