Socratic philosophy
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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 Lord, John
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
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
This reactionary tendency in Socratic philosophy appears nowhere more plainly than in the field of religion.
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
