Socrates and the Socratic Schools

Eduard Zeller

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1868 - Philosophy, Ancient - 350 pages

Contents

• THE GENERAL STATE OF CULTURE IN GREECE: 1
• Distinction of Socratic from postAristotelian Philosophy: 25
• CHAPTER V: 32
• Knowledge believed to be possible: 40
• The Socratic Philosophy developed: 47
• SOURCES: 82
• A Knowledge of ignorance the first step in selfknowledge: 100
• Formation of conceptions the third step: 106
• CHAPTER VII: 112
• The Good and Eudæmonism: 123
• Particular Moral Relations: 130
• CHAPTER VIII: 141
• Dignity and Immortality of man: 147
• B Importance of Socrates for the age in which he lived: 154
• THE TRAGIC END OF SOCRATES: 161
• B Causes which led to his sentence: 169
• Justification of the sentence: 186
• PART III: 202
• B Virtue is knowledgethe leading thought of: 205
• Æschines: 208
• B Their Doctrine: 217
• Eristic: 225
• The EleanEretrian School: 237
• 45: 244
• B Teaching of the Cynics: 247
• Cynic theory of Morality: 256
• Practical results of Cynic teaching: 267
• E Cynic influence on the world: 281
• CHAPTER III: 287
• B Teaching of the Cyrenaics: 293
• Practical Life of the Cyrenaics: 308
• Relation of their teaching to Socrates: 316
• Introduction The problem proposed to philosophy: 319
• E The later Cyrenaics: 323
• RETROSPECT: 332
• THE LIFE OF SOCRATES: 341
• A The problem solved by political circumstances: 346
• B The problem solved by literature: 1

Bibliographic information

• Title: Socrates and the Socratic Schools
• Author: Eduard Zeller
• Translated by: Oswald Joseph Reichel
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1868
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Oct 30, 2007
• Length: 350 pages