Socratic philosophy
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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 Andersen, Ingeborg
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
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
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
