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Socrates
Socrates , 469-399 BC, Greek philosopher of Athens. Famous for his view of philosophy as a pursuit proper and necessary to all intelligent men, he is one of the great examples of a man who lived by his principles even though they ultimately cost him his life. Knowledge of the man and his teachings c... Read more
Aristotle Socrates Onassis
Aristotle Socrates Onassis , 1906?-75, Greek shipowner and financier, b. Turkey. Leaving Turkey after the Turkish defeat of Greek forces at Smyrna (1922), he revived the family tobacco business in Argentina. In 1925 he received Argentinean and Greek citizenship. Onassis purchased his first ships in ... Read more
Aristippus
Aristippus , c.435-c.360 BC, Greek philosopher of Cyrene, first of the Cyrenaics . He held pleasure to be the highest good and virtue to be identical with the ability to enjoy. His doctrines, comprising the first coherent exposition of hedonism , opposed those of the Cynics, although both groups d... Read more
Xenophon
Xenophon , c.430 BC-c.355 BC, Greek historian, b. Athens. He was one of the well-to-do young disciples of Socrates before leaving Athens to join the Greek force (the Ten Thousand) that was in the service of Cyrus the Younger of Persia. These troops served Cyrus at the disastrous battle of Cunaxa ... Read more
Cynics
Cynics [Gr.,=doglike, probably from their manners and their meeting place, the Cynosarges, an academy for Athenian youths], ancient school of philosophy founded c.440 BC by Antisthenes , a disciple of Socrates. The Cynics considered virtue to be the only good, not just the highest good as Socrates... Read more
Aspasia
Aspasia , fl. mid-5th cent. BC, Athenian courtesan. A woman of great beauty and intelligence, she became the mistress and, according to some poets, adviser of Pericles after he divorced (445 BC) his wife. She is the chief figure in Aspasia, a dialogue by Aeschines the Socratic, in which she crit... Read more
hoplite
hoplite , heavy infantry soldier in the armies of classical Greece. Hoplites were usually protected by helmets, cuirasses, and leg armor. They carried large shields, javelins, heavy swords, and sometimes battle-axes and fought in the tightly organized phalanx formation. In classical Greece, hopl... Read more
Sozomen
Sozomen , 5th cent., Byzantine church historian, b. Gaza. A fuller form of his name is Salaminius Hermias Sozomenus. His Ecclesiastical History was written in 439-50. The nine extant books, written in an elegant Greek style, cover the years 324-439 and are primarily drawn from the history of Socr... Read more
atheism
atheism , denial of the existence of God or gods and of any supernatural existence, to be distinguished from agnosticism , which holds that the existence cannot be proved. The term atheism has been used as an accusation against all who attack established orthodoxy, as in the trial of Socrates. Th... Read more
Isocrates
Isocrates , 436-338 BC, one of the Ten Attic Orators. He was a pupil of Socrates and of the Sophists. Perhaps the greatest teacher in Greek history, he taught every younger orator of his time. He did not deliver his speeches, but either wrote for litigants (six such speeches survive) or wrote discou... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Socratic"

Leo Strauss
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1899-1973), a German Jew, was a Socratic political philosopher. As he considered the civic duty of a Socratic to be to question and criticize reigning...rationalism as epitomized in Socrates and the Socratic way of life. Strauss' second book...
Gorgias
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, translated by Kathleen Freeman in Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers (1946; 3d ed. 1953) and discussed by her in The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (1946; 3d ed. 1953). Assessments of Gorgias's importance...
Buchanan, Scott (1895–1968)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...nationally noted for his defense of liberal education and his masterful use of Socratic seminar methods. Buchanan's custom-tailored undergraduate curriculum...intellectual tradition, from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. Tutors and Socratic
Johann Georg Hamann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...culminated in his first major work, Socratic Memorabilia (1759). His reputation...facts and to true philosophy, which is "Socratic" or critical in the awareness of its...Flaherty's edition of Hamann's Socratic Memorabilia (1967) is an excellent...
Parmenides
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Kathleen Freeman in Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers (1948) and discussed by her in The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (1946; 3d ed. 1953...1969). General discussions of Pre-Socratic philosophy as part of the development...
Plato
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...divided into three groups according to the probable order of composition. Early Works The earliest group of dialogues, called Socratic, include chiefly the Apology, which presents the defense of Socrates; the Meno, which asks whether virtue can be taught...
Ionian school
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ionian school pre-Socratic group of Greek philosophers of the 6th and 5th cent. BC; most of them were born in Ionia. Its members were primarily concerned...
Euclid of Megara
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...a disciple of Socrates and traditional founder of the Megarian school. He combined the Eleatic doctrine of the unity of being with the Socratic teaching that virtue is knowledge. He held that the idea of the good is the sole reality.
Eleatic school
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Eleatic school , Greek pre-Socratic philosophical school at Elea, a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy. The group was founded in the early 5th cent. BC by Parmenides...
Aspasia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...adviser of Pericles after he divorced (445 BC) his wife. She is the chief figure in Aspasia, a dialogue by Aeschines the Socratic, in which she criticizes the training of women. She also appears in the Menexnus, probably written by Plato, and in the...

Dictionary entries related to "Socratic"

Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic Socrates (c. 470 – 399...involved question and answer, or the "Socratic method." Although Socrates professed...left no writings of his own, the Socratic method is demonstrated in the writings...
Socratic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English So·crat·ic / səˈkratik / • adj. of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy. • n. a follower of Socrates. DERIVATIVES: So·crat·i·cal·ly / -ikx259;)lē / adv.
Socratic irony
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English So·crat·ic i·ro·ny • n. a pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can then be challenged.
Modernization
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...guided by and in support of specific Western policy objectives. The intellectual roots of modernization theory lie in pre-Socratic Western thinking about social change, and more immediately in the European Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth...
Education, Experimental
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...programs — and a program based on the theories of psychologist Howard Gardner. The Paideia proposal focuses on the Socratic method of teaching and three modes of learning — knowledge, skills, and understanding. The foundations of the...
maieutic
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology maieutic pert. to the Socratic method of bringing out latent conceptions. XVII. — Gr. maieutikós obstetric (used fig. of Socratic methods), f. maieúesthai act as midwife, f. maía midwife; see -IC .
Microcosm and Macrocosm
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...have begun as an archetypal theme of mythology that the pre-Socratic philosophers reworked into a more systematic form. Unfortunately...Book 4), Plato united the microcosmic theme with the pre-Socratic tendency to view cosmology in political terms when he discussed...
Philosophy, Moral: Ancient
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...convicted on a charge of impiety, and put to death. Plato Socratic ethics insists that we will do what makes us happy if we know...instead, and sometimes we do that something else. Also, Socratic ethics does not say enough about the soul to establish that...
Free will, Determinism, and Predestination
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...good. Plato (427? – 347 b.c.e.) adopts this Socratic view, although in his later works he emphasizes that the passions...Aristotle (384 – 322 b.c.e.) thinks that the Socratic account cannot explain incontinence, which is the condition...
elenchus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable elenchus the Socratic method of eliciting truth by question and answer, especially as used to refute an argument (also called Socratic elenchus ).

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