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 Lord, John
See also Daimonion of S. Socratic philosophy, 64, 87, 149.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg
Similarly the Socratic philosophy affords a noble and genuine account of what goods may be realised by living.
From The Life of Reason by Santayana, George
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)
The gist of this definition of matter was to clear the decks for scientific calculation, by removing from nature the moral density and moral magic with which the Socratic philosophy had encumbered it.
From Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays by Santayana, George
