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  • Take that fellow Socrates.†   (source)
  • But in its day the City of Poets was fair indeed, a bit of Socrates's Athens with the intellectual excitement of Renaissance Venice, the artistic fervor of Paris in the days of the Impressionists, the true democracy of the first decade of Orbit City, and the unlimited future of Tau Ceti Center.†   (source)
  • It had been for this same reason that Socrates had refused to formally participate in the Eleusinian Mysteries.†   (source)
  • "It's really kind of a beautiful story—like Abraham Lincoln or Socrates—or Asian."†   (source)
  • Through the mountainous questions of reality and knowledge had passed great figures of civilization, some of whom, like Socrates and Aristotle and Newton and Einstein, were known to almost everyone, but most of whom were far more obscure.†   (source)
  • Socrates wisest is she who knows she does not know Sophie put on a summer dress and hurried down to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • I already knew a Socrates.†   (source)
  • Yes, indeed, Socrates; at least, if they will listen to me.†   (source)
  • A student named Glaucon offered the story in response to a lesson by Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.†   (source)
  • He may be sentenced to death, but he can die nobly, like Socrates.†   (source)
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  • In another 2,400 ears, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of that century, might he forgotten.†   (source)
  • Socrates?†   (source)
  • A philosopher once wrote that everything in my work is unverifiable speculation and called me a 'pseudo-Socrates.'†   (source)
  • "Socrates," said Jason.†   (source)
  • Having run on for several pages about Cicero, Socrates, and the contradictions in Plato, Jefferson asked, "But why am I dosing you with these antediluvian topics?†   (source)
  • "Socrates," Ree answered promptly.†   (source)
  • One guy said he'd like to be a gadfly, like Socrates.†   (source)
  • Even if every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.†   (source)
  • The Trial of Socrates, by Doug Linder.†   (source)
  • To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure Socrates wouldn't have, for that matter.†   (source)
  • As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.†   (source)
  • Plato would have approved of him as an example of the philosopher-statesman, though Sen did not altogether approve of Plato, whom he suspected of grossly misrepresenting Socrates.†   (source)
  • (Almost reluctantly, she starts to read) My typewriter's been singing A sweet, sad song about the Hillsboro heretic, B. Cates: boy-Socrates, latter-day Dreyfus, Romeo with a biology book.†   (source)
  • If Socrates had had--But wait!†   (source)
  • Let's leave Socrates to his Xanthippe.†   (source)
  • Therefore Socrates is a cat.†   (source)
  • CHAPUYS (Awkward beneath his sudden keen regard) May I not come simply to pay my respects to the English Socrates-as I see your angelic friend Erasmus calls you.†   (source)
  • When Socrates heard this he was astounded, to put it mildly.†   (source)
  • In the dialogue, Gorgias is the name of a Sophist whom Socrates crossexamines.†   (source)
  • He backs up and restates that "Now Socrates has sworn to the Gods that he is telling the Truth.†   (source)
  • If you met Socrates, you thus might end up being made a fool of publicly.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus replies, "Socrates himself says it is an analogy."†   (source)
  • Socrates represents a new era, geographically as well as temporally.†   (source)
  • Had she really seen Socrates and Plato on TV?†   (source)
  • If you will read the dialogue you will find that Socrates specifically states it is the Truth!†   (source)
  • Socrates has sworn to the Gods that it is the truth!†   (source)
  • We are in the year 402 B.C., only three years before Socrates dies.†   (source)
  • Anaxagoras and Parmenides had a listener named Socrates who carried their ideas into full fruition.†   (source)
  • Socrates, on the other hand, believed that conscience is the same for everyone.†   (source)
  • It's the mode of discourse of Socrates in the Dialogues of Plato.†   (source)
  • Unlike the Romantics, Socrates was what Kierkegaard called an 'existential' thinker.†   (source)
  • Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum.†   (source)
  • This is also what we mean when we speak of the ethics of Socrates or Aristotle, for example.†   (source)
  • The name Sophist was even applied without disparagement to Socrates and Plato themselves.†   (source)
  • Socrates himself said, "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."†   (source)
  • Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived from 470 to 399 B.C. If you wish to know more, press F7.†   (source)
  • At one place Socrates asks to what class of things do the words which Rhetoric uses relate.†   (source)
  • The halo around the heads of Plato and Socrates is now gone.†   (source)
  • Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife.†   (source)
  • Now we are going to meet the three great classical philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Socrates asks him to read it and Phaedrus does.†   (source)
  • That's why the Chairman missed that statement of Socrates.†   (source)
  • Sophie didn't know why she said it; the words just tumbled out of her mouth: "So was Socrates.†   (source)
  • Plato often names Socrates' foils for characteristics of their personality.†   (source)
  • Socrates lived at the same time as the Sophists.†   (source)
  • In this dialogue he is carried away by Socrates' discourse on love and is tamed.†   (source)
  • This was the period when Socrates walked through the streets and squares talking with the Athenians.†   (source)
  • But she couldn't really have seen Plato and Socrates … oh, never mind!†   (source)
  • At one point he threatens Socrates with violence.†   (source)
  • There is a direct line of descent from Socrates and Plato via St. Augustine to Descartes.†   (source)
  • But Socrates responds that this answer is ambiguous.†   (source)
  • But had he done this he would not have been Socrates.†   (source)
  • Like Socrates, who dared tell people how little we humans know.†   (source)
  • Descartes believed like Socrates and Plato that there is a connection between reason and being.†   (source)
  • The Myth of the Cave illustrates Socrates' courage and his sense of pedagogic responsibility.†   (source)
  • From the time of Socrates, Athens was the center of Greek culture.†   (source)
  • But who Socrates "really" was is relatively unimportant.†   (source)
  • Socrates felt that it was necessary to establish a solid foundation for our knowledge.†   (source)
  • He had been a pupil of Socrates for some time and had followed his trial very closely.†   (source)
  • The oracle answered that Socrates of all mortals was the wisest.†   (source)
  • Similarly, what the "historical" Socrates actually said will always be shrouded in mystery.†   (source)
  • In this, then, the Stoics sided with Socrates against the Sophists.†   (source)
  • Socrates said that we all had the same chances because we all had the same common sense.†   (source)
  • By playing ignorant, Socrates forced the people he met to use their common sense.†   (source)
  • This is where Socrates spent so much of his time talking to the people he met.†   (source)
  • Not to mention Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Plato (428-347 B.C.) was twenty-nine years old when Socrates drank the hemlock.†   (source)
  • Socrates would most likely have said the same.†   (source)
  • The natural philosophers are also called the pre-Socratics, because they lived before Socrates.†   (source)
  • But Socrates also had a pupil named Aristippus.†   (source)
  • That is Socrates and his young pupil, Plato.†   (source)
  • Like Socrates, he was convinced that certain knowledge is only attainable through reason.†   (source)
  • Kierkegaard had written a master of arts thesis on Socrates.†   (source)
  • I do not mean to suggest that Jesus and Socrates were alike.†   (source)
  • Something the philosopher had said about Socrates came into her mind.†   (source)
  • A Divine Voice It was not in order to torment his fellow beings that Socrates kept on stinging them.†   (source)
  • Both Jesus and Socrates were enigmatic personalities, also to their contemporaries.†   (source)
  • But Socrates differed from the Sophists in one significant way.†   (source)
  • When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason.†   (source)
  • The trials of Jesus and Socrates also exhibit clear parallels.†   (source)
  • It was also firmly rooted in the Middle Ages, and we remember it from Plato and Socrates too.†   (source)
  • We can again draw a parallel with Socrates, who did not accept the skepticism of the Sophists.†   (source)
  • Socrates was concerned with finding clear and universally valid definitions of right and wrong.†   (source)
  • This was totally unacceptable to Socrates.†   (source)
  • No, Socrates called himself a philosopher in the true sense of the word.†   (source)
  • Socrates (470-399 B.C.) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy.†   (source)
  • Socrates could feign ignorance—or pretend to be dumber than he was.†   (source)
  • As we saw, its roots reach far back in history through Kierkegaard and way back to Socrates.†   (source)
  • Socrates protested, for example, against having any part in condemning people to death.†   (source)
  • It was probably Socrates trying to sting you into life.†   (source)
  • It was probably Socrates trying to sting you into life.†   (source)
  • As Socrates understood, the inequality of values is constant.†   (source)
  • The trial and execution of Socrates in Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians.†   (source)
  • A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry:—"I move not without Thy knowledge!†   (source)
  • The trial began in the morning with the reading of the formal charges against Socrates by a herald.†   (source)
  • Socrates spent his final hours in a cell in the Athens jail.†   (source)
  • Other plays of the time offer additional clues as to the reputation of Socrates in Athens.†   (source)
  • Socrates must have known that his proposed "punishment" would infuriate the jury.†   (source)
  • Socrates would point to his resistance to the order as evidence of his good conduct.†   (source)
  • Meletus accuses Socrates of believing the sun and moon not to be gods, but merely masses of stone.†   (source)
  • Having found merit in the accusation against Socrates, the magistrate drew up formal charges.†   (source)
  • Plato's apology describes Socrates questioning his accuser, Meletus, about the impiety charge.†   (source)
  • It is likely that this last burst of eloquence comes from Plato, not Socrates.†   (source)
  • Adding to the displeasure of Anytus must have been the advice Socrates gave to his son.†   (source)
  • Alcibiades, perhaps Socrates' favorite Athenian politician, masterminded the first overthrow.†   (source)
  • Critias, without question, was the more frightening of the two former pupils of Socrates.†   (source)
  • The accusers of Socrates proposed the punishment of death.†   (source)
  • Anytus almost certainly disapproved of his son's relationship with Socrates.†   (source)
  • Plato, in his Symposium, describes Socrates and Aristophanes engaged in friendly conversation.†   (source)
  • Any number of words and actions of Socrates may have contributed to his impiety charge.†   (source)
  • The horrors brought on by the Thirty Tyrants caused Athenians to look at Socrates in a new light.†   (source)
  • Anytus had an additional personal gripe concerning the relationship Socrates had with his son.†   (source)
  • Socrates himself, apparently, took no offense at his portrayal in Clouds.†   (source)
  • One incident involving Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants would later become an issue at his trial.†   (source)
  • Socrates was not a democrat or an egalitarian.†   (source)
  • The only answer, Stone and others conclude, is that Socrates was ready to die.†   (source)
  • We get one contemporary view of Socrates from playwright Aristophanes.†   (source)
  • Socrates gave a defiant--decidedly unapologetic--speech.†   (source)
  • No record of the prosecution's argument against Socrates survives.†   (source)
  • Plato's Socrates provocatively tells his jury that he is a hero.†   (source)
  • After the conviction of Socrates by a relatively close vote, the trial entered its penalty phase.†   (source)
  • Socrates, however, did no more than remind the jury that he had a family.†   (source)
  • Instead, Socrates audaciously proposes to the jury that he be rewarded, not punished.†   (source)
  • OLD GENTLEMAN: [to the LOGICIAN] So Socrates was a cat, was he?†   (source)
  • In addition to Socrates, I knew a White Russian named Attila at the Boston School of Business Administration.†   (source)
  • And having thus broached the subject, the Count went on to applaud the couplets of Pushkin, the paragraphs of Dostoevsky, and the transcriptions of Socrates and Jesus.†   (source)
  • He certainly viewed it as providential that when Socrates held forth in the agora and Jesus on the Mount, someone in the audience had the presence of mind to set their words down for posterity.†   (source)
  • One sees quite clearly in this dialogue how the analytic knife of Socrates hacks Gorgias' art into pieces.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus has caught it and remembered it, because if Socrates hadn't stated it he wouldn't have been telling the "Truth."†   (source)
  • What Phaedrus has been talking about as Quality, Socrates appears to have described as the soul, self-moving, the source of all things.†   (source)
  • Socrates had been one of Phaedrus' childhood heroes and it shocked and angered him to see this dialogue taking place.†   (source)
  • The results of Socrates' martyrdom and Plato's unexcelled prose that followed are nothing less than the whole world of Western man as we know it.†   (source)
  • Socrates chooses a heaven-and-earth analogy, showing how individuals are drawn toward the One by a chariot drawn by two horses.†   (source)
  • In response to the Professor's question, Phaedrus gives Socrates' answer that cookery is a branch of pandering.†   (source)
  • He and Socrates are defending the Immortal Principle of the Cosmologists against what they consider to be the decadence of the Sophists.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus is quite ready to recite in detail the exact arguments Socrates uses to establish this view.†   (source)
  • Socrates knows very well what Gorgias does for a living and how he does it, but he starts his Twenty Questions dialectic by asking Gorgias with what rhetoric is concerned.†   (source)
  • Socrates, that ancient enemy of rhetorical argument, would have sent Phaedrus flying for this one, saying, "Yes, I accept your premise that I'm incompetent on the matter of Quality.†   (source)
  • Normally this goal is in no conflict with the location goal of improving the citizenry, but on occasion some conflict arises, as in the case of Socrates himself.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus meets Socrates, who knows only the ways of the city, and leads him into the country, whereupon he begins to recite a speech of the orator, Lysias, whom he admires.†   (source)
  • Socrates has demonstrated to Gorgias that both rhetoric and cooking are branches of pandering…pimping…because they appeal to the emotions rather than true knowledge.†   (source)
  • It's been necessary since before the time of Socrates to reject the passions, the emotions, in order to free the rational mind for an understanding of nature's order which was as yet unknown.†   (source)
  • The ideal that Socrates died for.†   (source)
  • The primary goal of the Church of Reason, Phaedrus said, is always Socrates' old goal of truth, in its ever-changing forms, as it's revealed by the process of rationality.†   (source)
  • "Liar!" writes Phaedrus in the margin, and he cross-references a page in another dialogue where Socrates makes it clear he could not have been "in the dark."†   (source)
  • All this, which is simply Gorgias' description of what people called Sophists have tended to do, now becomes subtly rendered by Socrates' dialectic into something else.†   (source)
  • Thus the dethronement of dialectic from what Socrates and Plato held it to be was absolutely essential for Aristotle, and "dialectic" was and still is a fulcrum word.†   (source)
  • The Chairman of the committee himself has suggested that critics who are not certain what Plato meant should be equally uncertain of what Socrates' antagonists in the dialogues meant.†   (source)
  • The Greek Phaedrus is not a Sophist but a young orator who is a foil for Socrates in this dialogue, which is about the nature of love and the possibility of philosophic rhetoric.†   (source)
  • When it is known that Plato put his own words in Socrates' mouth (Aristotle says this) there should be no reason to doubt that he could have put his own words into other mouths too.†   (source)
  • It has even been suggested by some later historians that the reason Plato hated the Sophists so was that they could not compare with his master, Socrates, who was in actuality the greatest Sophist of them all.†   (source)
  • At first he doesn't see what it is, but then he becomes aware that the Chairman has completely bypassed Socrates' description of the One and has jumped ahead to the allegory of the chariot and the horses.†   (source)
  • Socrates is not using dialectic to understand rhetoric, he is using it to destroy it, or at least to bring it into disrepute, and so his questions are not real questions at all…they are just word-traps which Gorgias and his fellow rhetoricians fall into.†   (source)
  • But one soon learns that this bad speech is simply a setup, an easy act for Socrates to follow with a much better speech of his own, and following that with a still better speech, one of the finest in all the Dialogues of Plato.†   (source)
  • There's a titter from one of the women in the class which displeases Phaedrus because he knows the Professor is trying for a dialectical hold on him similar to the kind Socrates gets on his opponents, and his answer is not intended to be funny but simply to throw off the dialectical hold the Professor is trying to get.†   (source)
  • In addition to Socrates' Apology, Plato wrote a collection of Epistles and about twenty-five philosophical Dialogues.†   (source)
  • The Epicureans As we have seen, Socrates was concerned with finding out how man could live a good life.†   (source)
  • So it is no easy matter to distinguish between the teachings of Socrates and the philosophy of Plato.†   (source)
  • As you will no doubt recall, Socrates never wrote anything down, although many of the pre-Socratics did.†   (source)
  • And yet in one sense, even Socrates and the Sophists were preoccupied with the relationship between the eternal and immutable, and the "flowing."†   (source)
  • Descartes decided to travel around Europe, the way Socrates spent his life talking to people in Athens.†   (source)
  • As I have said, Hellenistic philosophy continued to work with the problems raised by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • A Joker in Athens Socrates, Sophie!†   (source)
  • We've seen how the Sophists and Socrates turned their attention from questions of natural philosophy to problems related to man and society.†   (source)
  • But before we meet Socrates, let us hear a little about the so-called Sophists, who dominated the Athenian scene at the time of Socrates.†   (source)
  • Socrates, on the other hand, tried to show that some such norms are in fact absolute and universally valid.†   (source)
  • Neoplatonism As I showed you, Cynicism, Stoicism, and Epicureanism all had their roots in the teaching of Socrates.†   (source)
  • We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.†   (source)
  • It is also important to note the change of character in the philosophical project itself as it progresses from natural philosophy to Socrates.†   (source)
  • Socrates had pointed out that everyone could understand philosophical truths if they just used their common sense.†   (source)
  • Like the humanists of antiquity—such as Socrates and the Stoics—most of the Enlightenment philosophers had an unshakable faith in human reason.†   (source)
  • To Plato, the death of Socrates was a striking example of the conflict that can exist between society as it really is and the true or ideal society.†   (source)
  • Having read about the natural philosophers and Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, you are now familiar with the foundations of European philosophy.†   (source)
  • You can compare him to Socrates, who did not trust the general views he encountered in the central square of Athens.†   (source)
  • Plato wrote a number of Dialogues, or dramatized discussions on philosophy, in which he uses Socrates as his principal character and mouthpiece.†   (source)
  • The best known writer of comedies was Aristophanes, who also wrote a spiteful comedy about Socrates as the buffoon of Athens.†   (source)
  • It had to be someplace… The chapter on Socrates began with Sophie reading "something about the Norwegian UN battalion in Lebanon" in the newspaper.†   (source)
  • Socrates is a good example of a person who managed to free himself from the prevailing views of his time by his own intelligence.†   (source)
  • Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to "give birth" to the correct insight, since real understanding must come from within.†   (source)
  • In the dialogue Symposium, he gives a woman, the legendary priestess Diotima, the honor of having given Socrates his philosophic insight.†   (source)
  • It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2,500 years.†   (source)
  • She no longer had difficulty in distinguishing Democritus and Socrates, or Plato and Aristotle, from each other.†   (source)
  • Kierkegaard's description of this 'category of decision' can be somewhat reminiscent of Socrates' view that all true insight comes from within.†   (source)
  • This is where the great tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were performed during the time of Socrates.†   (source)
  • Socrates was one of these rare people.†   (source)
  • Let me put it like this: Socrates thought that no one could possibly be happy if they acted against their better judgment.†   (source)
  • The Cynics The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold all kinds of wares.†   (source)
  • The Art of Discourse The essential nature of Socrates' art lay in the fact that he did not appear to want to instruct people.†   (source)
  • Although Democritus died some years after Socrates, all his ideas belong to pre-Socratic natural philosophy.†   (source)
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