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Socrates
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Socrates (
c.380–450), ‘Scholasticus’, Greek historian. His ‘Church History’ was designed as a continuation of
Eusebius's work and extends from the abdication of
Diocletian (305) to 439. It is generally objective and lucidly written, if colourless.
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SOCRATES IN THE PHAEDO: KNIGHT OF FAITH
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; No, Socrates is the only person who solved the problem...everything, with him to the grave. Marvelous Socrates ... you kept the highest enthusiasm...disparagingly saying of you now-O, Socrates!-that, after all, you were only...
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Socrates in the 21st Century.(Essay)
Magazine article from: The Chronicle of Higher Education; 2/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...CARLIN ROMANO Given the choice between Socrates dead or alive, Western thinkers have...intellectuals regard the life and death of Socrates (470-399 BC) to be a cornerstone...of Technology, states in his recent Socrates: A Life Examined (Prometheus Books...
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Socrates Technologies Enters Into Strategic Alliance With register.com.
PR Newswire; 8/10/2000; 700+ words
; VIENNA, Va., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Socrates Technologies Corporation, Inc. (OTC Bulletin...marketplace, today announced that its subsidiary, Socrates Solutions Corporation (Socrates) has reached a strategic alliance agreement...
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Why Socrates Died.(Books)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 7/21/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Hartnett Since his death in 399 BC, Socrates has lived well in history, enjoying...and maybe a little vanity - that got Socrates into trouble. This is the central insight behind Why Socrates Died, Waterfield's remarkable and...
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Was Socrates a democrat? Melissa Lane looks at the reputation of Socrates, both at the time of his death and in subsequent debates about democracy.
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...in fifth-century democratic Athens, Socrates (469-399 BC) attracted a circle of...his closest disciples. But the life of Socrates might never have become resonant were...new gods, and corrupting the young, Socrates was tried before a popular jury, convicted...
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Socrates' practical reply to the learner's paradox in the Meno.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Michigan Academician; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...exasperated Meno, "bewitched," "beguiled," and "numbed" by Socrates' dialectical torpedoes, confronts Socrates with the famous "learner's paradox," in an attempt to derail Socrates' inquiry about what virtue (arete) is (and what objective...
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Socrates and Superiority
Magazine article from: The Southern Journal of Philosophy; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...arguments that are typically taken to be Socrates' primary arguments against escape are...those above. I provide evidence that Socrates holds this thesis, demonstrate how it...and misunderstand the role they play in Socrates' overall argument against escape. The...
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Socrates Technologies Announces 2nd Quarter Results and the Pre-Launch of Socrates Solutions' New Web Site.
Business Wire; 8/15/2000; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Socrates Solutions Corporation Subsidiary...Strategic e-Business Initiatives Socrates Technologies Corporation (OTCBB...financial results. Tim Keenan, CEO of Socrates Technologies Corporation, will...
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Socrates: mentor for humanists. (Great Minds).
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the Noble Living and the Noble Dead." Socrates has been such a figure for generations...confronted in fifth-century Athens. Socrates called on us to free ourselves from the...for his provocative confrontations.) Socrates pioneered a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity...
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Socrates' irrational rationality.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: symploke; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Socrates seems to most to be a paragon of rationality...are irrational. "Only by investigating Socrates' deep, lifelong commitments to the irrationalities...mixture of qualities that contribute to Socrates' well-being and to our own" (19...
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Socrates
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Socrates The Greek philosopher and logician Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was an important formative influence on Plato and had a profound effect on ancient philosophy. Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus, an Athenian stone mason and...
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Socrates Scholasticus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Socrates Scholasticus fl. 5th cent., Byzantine historian. His Ecclesiastical History (in Greek, 7 vol.) continues the work of Eusebius...
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Aristotle Socrates Onassis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Aristotle Socrates Onassis , 1906?-75, Greek shipowner and financier, b. Turkey. Leaving Turkey after the Turkish defeat of Greek forces at...
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Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic Socrates (c. 470 – 399 b.c.e...or the "Socratic method." Although Socrates professed to be ignorant of the answers...and to refine those opinions. While Socrates left no writings of his own, the Socratic...
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Plato
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...forms of poetry. His acquaintance with Socrates (c. 469 – c. 399 b.c...the course of his life. The power that Socrates's methods and arguments had over the...and he became a close associate of Socrates. The end of the Peloponnesian War...
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