The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro  |              one of them. Of natural philosophy he knows nothing; not that
  2 Intro  |    aspiration of the first martyr of philosophy, that he would leave behind
  3 Text   |              is a student of natural philosophy. I should be very sorry
  4 Text   |             practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting any one whom


Charmides
    Part
  5 PreF   |        anachronism in the history of philosophy. There is a common spirit
  6 PreF   |              yet taken possession of philosophy.~If Mr. Grote should do
  7 PreF   |              place in the history of philosophy. We are not concerned to
  8 PreS(3)|           Ideas’ of Plato and Modern Philosophy.~
  9 PreS   |          definite language of modern philosophy. And he must not allow discordant
 10 PreS   |            the Hegelian or Darwinian philosophy.~7 As no two words are precise
 11 PreS   |          added some essays on modern philosophy, and on political and social
 12 PreS   |         Preface.)~Ancient and modern philosophy throw a light upon one another:
 13 PreS   |             have no place in ancient philosophy. The world has grown older
 14 PreS   |           place, the spirit of Greek philosophy. There is, however, no continuous
 15 PreS   |          exist in ancient and modern philosophy, it seems best that we should
 16 PreS   |              that ancient and modern philosophy are one and continuous (
 17 PreS   |           have been well inclined to philosophy, and well able to dispose
 18 PreS   |            In the first stage of his philosophy Plato attributed Ideas to
 19 PreS   |           world by Aristotle and his philosophy. But on the other hand almost
 20 PreS   |            troubled the pre-Socratic philosophy and came to the front in
 21 PreS   |              from which a subject of philosophy may be regarded, he is secretly
 22 PreS   |            of a theory about ancient philosophy to argue from what will
 23 PreS   |           essential principle of his philosophy had been reversed? It is
 24 PreS   |         Plato or anywhere in ancient philosophy? Is it not an anachronism,
 25 PreS   |           between ancient and modern philosophy, and between physical and
 26 Intro  |        seemed to require: for in the philosophy of Plato (Greek) still retains
 27 Intro  |            character of the Platonic philosophy) is given as the definition,
 28 Intro  |         Republic as well as of moral philosophy in later ages.~The dramatic
 29 Intro  |          world, having a tincture of philosophy. No hint is given, either
 30 Intro  |              contribution to ethical philosophy, is perverted by the ingenuity
 31 Intro  |          this vision of metaphysical philosophy; and such a science when
 32 Intro  |              stage in the history of philosophy in which knowledge and action
 33 Intro  |              to a later stage of the philosophy of Plato.~
 34 Text   |           about the present state of philosophy, and about the youth. I


Cratylus
    Part
 35 Intro  |       convention? In the presocratic philosophy mankind had been striving
 36 Intro  |             stand to the rest of his philosophy? Or may we be so bold as
 37 Intro  |       language he sees reflected the philosophy of Heracleitus. His views
 38 Intro  |    inconsistent with the rest of his philosophy.~2. We do not deny that
 39 Intro  |          with the later phase of the philosophy of Plato, and would have
 40 Intro  |       current in his own age: 4. the philosophy of language had not made
 41 Intro  |          delivering a lecture on the philosophy of language, Socrates is
 42 Intro  |              a hive of wisdom in the philosophy of Heracleitus;— the doctrine
 43 Intro  |          difficulties of early Greek philosophy, endeavours to show Cratylus
 44 Intro  |            as in the Theaetetus, the philosophy of Heracleitus by ‘unsavoury’
 45 Intro  |            that there was a power of philosophy and talk among the first
 46 Intro  |             or processes. Poetry and philosophy—these two, are the two great
 47 Intro  |             or any other age to find philosophy in words; and he afterwards
 48 Intro  |            of moral and metaphysical philosophy. For the use of words on
 49 Intro  |               technically applied in philosophy and art; they are used as
 50 Intro  |             made. The true spirit of philosophy or metaphysics can alone
 51 Intro  |         parts of speech, the Eleatic philosophy and the Kantian categories.
 52 Intro  |         reflections which the modern philosophy of language suggests to
 53 Intro  |             speak and culminating in philosophy. But there remains an element
 54 Intro  |          they wear the appearance of philosophy and there is no test to
 55 Intro  |            greatly influenced by the philosophy of Hegel; nearly all of
 56 Intro  |              the first principles of philosophy could be elicited from the
 57 Intro  |       corresponds with any system of philosophy, however great may be the
 58 Intro  |        language is ‘contaminated’ by philosophy it is apt to become awkward,
 59 Intro  |              it has brought back the philosophy of language from theory
 60 Text   |             there is a great deal of philosophy and reflection in that;


Critias
    Part
 61 Intro  |       history was now to succeed the philosophy of nature. The Critias is
 62 Text   |           united also in the love of philosophy and art, both obtained as


Euthydemus
    Part
 63 Intro  |           solution in the infancy of philosophy. They presented the same
 64 Intro  |            arise in the pre-Socratic philosophy are trivial and obsolete
 65 Intro  |          methods of Modern Inductive philosophy. Such a science might have
 66 Intro  |            become a philosopher. And philosophy is the possession of knowledge;
 67 Intro  |              both of politics and of philosophy. They do not understand
 68 Intro  |             should continue to serve philosophy, and not mind about its
 69 Intro  |              stage in the history of philosophy in which the old is dying
 70 Intro  |           are the signs of them. The philosophy which in the first and second
 71 Intro  |         eristic.~It is this stage of philosophy which Plato satirises in
 72 Intro  |              which the catchwords of philosophy are completely detached
 73 Intro  |            the youth are agreed that philosophy is to be studied, they are
 74 Intro  |             alien from the spirit of philosophy as Euthydemus and Dionysodorus.
 75 Intro  |              a border-ground between philosophy and politics; they keep
 76 Intro  |             and at the same time use philosophy as a means of serving their
 77 Intro  |              making two good things, philosophy and politics, a little worse
 78 Intro  |           that he should not give up philosophy because he has no faith
 79 Intro  |              Xenophon’s Memorabilia, philosophy is defined as ‘the knowledge
 80 Text   |           likely to stimulate him to philosophy and to the study of virtue?~
 81 Text   |              sample of the hortatory philosophy, but I suppose that they
 82 Text   |           off. Did we not agree that philosophy should be studied? and was
 83 Text   |     conclusion?~Yes, he replied.~And philosophy is the acquisition of knowledge?~
 84 Text   |             used. ‘Surely,’ I said, ‘philosophy is a charming thing.’ ‘Charming!’
 85 Text   |              said; ‘what simplicity! philosophy is nought; and I think that
 86 Text   |          came up to you and censured philosophy; was he an orator who himself
 87 Text   |             have a certain amount of philosophy, and a certain amount of
 88 Text   |          better than either. Now, if philosophy and political action are
 89 Text   |            advise the youth to study philosophy.~SOCRATES: Dear Crito, do
 90 Text   |              whether the teachers of philosophy are good or bad, but think
 91 Text   |            or bad, but think only of philosophy herself. Try and examine


Euthyphro
    Part
 92 Intro  |           person, as the author of a philosophy of names, by whose ‘prancing
 93 Intro  |            learned the lesson, which philosophy was teaching, that Homer


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 94 Pre    |        grounds either of language or philosophy we should lightly reject
 95 Pre    |              have taken place in his philosophy (see above). That twentieth


Gorgias
    Part
 96 Intro  |      despiser of mankind as he is of philosophy, and sees in the laws of
 97 Intro  |          principles to his practice. Philosophy and poetry alike supply
 98 Intro  |         Socrates. He must speak, for philosophy will not allow him to be
 99 Intro  |          Socrates are Alcibiades and philosophy. The peculiarity of Callicles
100 Intro  |         repeating what his mistress, Philosophy, is saying to him, who unlike
101 Intro  |              convinced, if you leave philosophy and pass on to the real
102 Intro  |           business of life. A little philosophy is an excellent thing; too
103 Intro  |         ridiculous when they take to philosophy: ‘Every man,’ as Euripides
104 Intro  |           that in which he is best.’ Philosophy is graceful in youth, like
105 Intro  |        grown-up man lisps or studies philosophy, I should like to beat him.
106 Intro  |             the same caution against philosophy to Socrates, which Socrates
107 Intro  |              of Plato and of ancient philosophy generally. For Plato is
108 Intro  |              the twilight of ethical philosophy, but also the half of the
109 Intro  |      transcendental systems of moral philosophy, he recognizes the two elements
110 Intro  |             many dark places both of philosophy and theology.~THE MYTHS
111 Intro  |    comparisons of the degradation of philosophy by the arts to the dishonoured
112 Intro  |              itself. The language of philosophy mingles with that of mythology;
113 Intro  |            advantages with a view to philosophy, gathering from every nature
114 Intro  |          monotonous. In theology and philosophy we necessarily include both ‘
115 Text   |              son of Cleinias, and of philosophy; and you of the Athenian
116 Text   |          want to silence me, silence philosophy, who is my love, for she
117 Text   |         another thing to-morrow, but philosophy is always true. She is the
118 Text   |         ascertain, if you will leave philosophy and go on to higher things:
119 Text   |             on to higher things: for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in
120 Text   |         accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.
121 Text   |          parts, still, if he carries philosophy into later life, he is necessarily
122 Text   |           appearance in the arena of philosophy. For, as Euripides says,~‘
123 Text   |          principle is to unite them. Philosophy, as a part of education,
124 Text   |            feeling about students of philosophy; when I see a youth thus
125 Text   |      education, and him who neglects philosophy I regard as an inferior
126 Text   |              will carry the study of philosophy too far. For suppose that
127 Text   |           refute no more:~‘Learn the philosophy of business, and acquire
128 Text   |              to which the pursuit of philosophy should be carried, and,
129 Text   |            should pursue the life of philosophy;—and in what the latter


Ion
    Part
130 Intro  |              The old quarrel between philosophy and poetry, which in the


Laws
    Book
131 9      |         using the language almost of philosophy, beginning at the beginning


Lysis
    Part
132 Intro  |            modern treatises on Moral Philosophy. The received examples of


Menexenus
    Part
133 Pre    |        grounds either of language or philosophy we should lightly reject
134 Pre    |              have taken place in his philosophy (see above). That twentieth
135 Text   |              end of education and of philosophy, and to have had enough


Meno
    Part
136 Intro  |            desires to include in his philosophy every aspect of human life;
137 Intro  |             suggenous ouses). Modern philosophy says that all things in
138 Intro  |              two opposite aspects of philosophy. But at the moment when
139 Intro  |              the second stage of his philosophy, sought to find the nature
140 Intro  |              which in the history of philosophy has had many names and taken
141 Intro  |              seriously, as a part of philosophy, but as an innocent recreation (
142 Intro  |     universal ideas, what becomes of philosophy? (Parmenides.) In the Sophist
143 Intro  |        abridgement of the history of philosophy (Soph.), is any mention
144 Intro  |           final form of the Platonic philosophy, so far as can be gathered
145 Intro  |             which later theology and philosophy have made between them.
146 Intro  |          body.~The stream of ancient philosophy in the Alexandrian and Roman
147 Intro  |            not the same with ancient philosophy. There is a great deal in
148 Intro  |            is a great deal in modern philosophy which is inspired by ancient.
149 Intro  |             There is much in ancient philosophy which was ‘born out of due
150 Intro  |             To the fathers of modern philosophy, their own thoughts appeared
151 Intro  |              to theology and natural philosophy, and for a time maintained
152 Intro  |            than the differences. All philosophy, even that part of it which
153 Intro  |         forwards went backwards from philosophy to psychology, from ideas
154 Intro  |             of the first problems of philosophy.~Plato also left behind
155 Intro  |             birth of the early Greek philosophy, and were the only part
156 Intro  |            reasoning process.~Modern philosophy, like ancient, begins with
157 Intro  |            into them. Unlike ancient philosophy, it has been unaffected
158 Intro  |             the principle of ancient philosophy which is most apparent in
159 Intro  |          form and substance of their philosophy is discernible in both of
160 Intro  |           the first period of modern philosophy, that having begun (like
161 Intro  |              his relation to ancient philosophy is his successor Spinoza,
162 Intro  |              the form of the Eleatic philosophy. Like Parmenides, he is
163 Intro  |            the limits of the Eleatic philosophy. The famous theorem of Spinoza, ‘
164 Intro  |         which defaced the garment of philosophy have been stripped off,
165 Intro  |             talking to herself.’ The philosophy of Berkeley is but the transposition
166 Intro  |              to David Hume, of whose philosophy the central principle is
167 Intro  |          crude and unmeaning as this philosophy is, it exercised a great
168 Intro  |        language or of the history of philosophy. Hume’s paradox has been
169 Intro  |            could not be refuted by a philosophy such as Kant’s, in which,
170 Intro  |            belongs to the infancy of philosophy; in modern times it would
171 Intro  |           trace them in language, in philosophy, in mythology, in poetry,
172 Intro  |              students of theology or philosophy have sufficiently reflected
173 Intro  |           how quickly the bloom of a philosophy passes away; or how hard
174 Intro  |           are seeking to express the philosophy of one age in the terms
175 Intro  |            day schools or systems of philosophy which have once been famous
176 Intro  |             down into the history of philosophy. It is a method which does


Parmenides
    Part
177 Intro  |            had once been inclined to philosophy, but has now shown the hereditary
178 Intro  |             absurdum’ of the Eleatic philosophy. But would Plato have been
179 Intro  |            refutation of the Eleatic philosophy. Nor would such an explanation
180 Intro  |         occur to a modern student of philosophy. Many persons will be surprised
181 Intro  |          comprehensive survey of the philosophy of Plato, which would be
182 Intro  |          mean city in the history of philosophy, who is the narrator of
183 Intro  |              mine, who are lovers of philosophy; they have heard that Antiphon
184 Intro  |        grandfather, and has given up philosophy for horses.’~‘We went to
185 Intro  |              the time will come when philosophy will have a firmer hold
186 Intro  |     reasoning and reflecting powers? philosophy is at an end.’ ‘I certainly
187 Intro  |              in the history of Greek philosophy. He is the founder of idealism,
188 Intro  |             the founder of the ideal philosophy.~There was probably a time
189 Intro  |            youth. As he grows older, philosophy will take a firmer hold
190 Intro  |        familiar principles of modern philosophy, that in the meanest operations
191 Intro  |             their solution in modern philosophy.~The first difficulty which
192 Intro  |           But the realism of ancient philosophy will not admit of this answer,
193 Intro  |         truth or half-truth of later philosophy, ‘Every subject or subjective
194 Intro  |             underlay the early Greek philosophy. ‘Ideas must have a real
195 Intro  |          fact to the Megarian age of philosophy, and is due to their illogical
196 Intro  |            This is the difficulty of philosophy in all ages: How can we
197 Intro  |           among the Greek schools of philosophy in the fourth century before
198 Intro  |          confuse ancient with modern philosophy. We need not deny that Plato,
199 Intro  |           and the Megarian and Cynic philosophy was a ‘reductio ad absurdum’
200 Intro  |              contemporary student of philosophy, and, like the similar difficulty
201 Intro  |          only. The tendency of their philosophy was to deny to Being all
202 Intro  |            in the language of modern philosophy: ‘Being is not only neither
203 Intro  |        criticize the earlier Eleatic philosophy from the point of view of
204 Intro  |            have reappeared in modern philosophy, e.g. the bare abstraction
205 Intro  |            absurdum’ of the Megarian philosophy, but we are too imperfectly
206 Intro  |           the spirit of the Megarian philosophy, though we cannot compare
207 Intro  |              them. They are the same philosophy in two forms, and the simpler
208 Intro  |            return to a more rational philosophy. The perplexity of the One
209 Intro  |          Plato belongs to a stage of philosophy which has passed away. At
210 Intro  |            unnecessary in any age of philosophy. We fail to understand him,
211 Intro  |            wide. In the beginning of philosophy this correction of human
212 Intro  |    importance to a word or idea. The philosophy of the ancients was still
213 Intro  |             sought to introduce into philosophy. Plato is warning us against
214 Intro  |         grown up in the pre-Socratic philosophy, and were still standing
215 Intro  |       arrived for a purely inductive philosophy. The instruments of thought
216 Intro  |             period in the history of philosophy was a barren tract, not
217 Intro  |            and Being. These weeds of philosophy have struck their roots
218 Intro  |       uniform sequence. Then arose a philosophy which, equally regardless
219 Intro  |      substance’ may be employed.~The philosophy of Berkeley could never
220 Intro  |              in the world.~‘A little philosophy takes us away from God;
221 Text   |             said; they are lovers of philosophy, and have heard that Antiphon
222 Text   |            bent of your mind towards philosophy; tell me now, was this your
223 Text   |              I am not mistaken, when philosophy will have a firmer grasp
224 Text   |           then, what is to become of philosophy? Whither shall we turn,
225 Text   |             that carries you towards philosophy is assuredly noble and divine;


Phaedo
    Part
226 Intro  |            as well as by cultivating philosophy. Tell this to Evenus; and
227 Intro  |             practised virtue without philosophy; they are allowed to pass
228 Intro  |            of his own captivity. But philosophy has spoken to him, and he
229 Intro  |            traced in Greek poetry or philosophy, and also in the Hebrew
230 Intro  |            on without him.~4. Modern philosophy is perplexed at this whole
231 Intro  |         conceptions of them; and any philosophy which too closely unites
232 Intro  |          have confused mythology and philosophy, or have mistaken verbal
233 Intro  |           same relation to Christian philosophy as the puzzles of the Cynics
234 Intro  |          Cynics and Megarians to the philosophy of Plato. They arise out
235 Intro  |          other abstractions of Greek philosophy, sank deep into the human
236 Intro  |              is found in early Greek philosophy, and hence the comparative
237 Intro  |            which has no place in the philosophy of modern times. But Plato
238 Intro  |            order of thought in Greek philosophy. And we might say in the
239 Intro  |  intermediate period of the Platonic philosophy, which roughly corresponds
240 Intro  |        explained out of contemporary philosophy, the other not admitting
241 Intro  |              Plato in the history of philosophy. They were living in a twilight
242 Intro  |             amid the questionings of philosophy. (2) The other is a difficulty
243 Intro  |         common to modern and ancient philosophy. Plato is not altogether
244 Intro  |             of the deepest truths of philosophy. There is nothing in any
245 Text   |         philosophical discourse (for philosophy was the theme of which we
246 Text   |         encourage me in the study of philosophy, which has been the pursuit
247 Text   |            man who has the spirit of philosophy, will be willing to die,
248 Text   |              that the true votary of philosophy is likely to be misunderstood
249 Text   |              have no time to give to philosophy; and, last and worst of
250 Text   |              who pass their lives in philosophy?~Most assuredly.~For the
251 Text   |              been a true disciple of philosophy; and therefore has in fact
252 Text   |        practice of dying? For is not philosophy the practice of death?—~
253 Text   |              can be attained only by philosophy;—do you suppose that such
254 Text   |          habit and attention without philosophy and mind. (Compare Republic.)~
255 Text   |              one who has not studied philosophy and who is not entirely
256 Text   |             why the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly
257 Text   |          ways of the blind: and when philosophy offers them purification
258 Text   |              glued to the body—until philosophy received her, she could
259 Text   |            knowledge are well aware, philosophy, seeing how terrible was
260 Text   |        another way; she will not ask philosophy to release her in order
261 Text   |              know that department of philosophy which is called the investigation
262 Text   |             purified themselves with philosophy live henceforth altogether


Phaedrus
    Part
263 Intro  |           together contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of
264 Intro  |      Phaedrus and Symposium love and philosophy join hands, and one is an
265 Intro  |              two, or the relation of philosophy to love and to art in general,
266 Intro  |            spring from an uncritical philosophy after all. ‘The proper study
267 Intro  |             lover who is not without philosophy receives her wings at the
268 Intro  |           Lysias, who ought to study philosophy instead of rhetoric, and
269 Intro  |       rhetoric; it is nearer akin to philosophy. Pericles, for instance,
270 Intro  |           from rhetoric but from the philosophy of nature which he learnt
271 Intro  |              in these two aspects of philosophy the technicalities of rhetoric
272 Intro  |            perhaps in the history of philosophy, we have represented to
273 Intro  |      overpowered. And yet the way of philosophy, or perfect love of the
274 Intro  |            language of mankind about philosophy, and is turning their jest
275 Intro  |           knowledge of the age. That philosophy should be represented as
276 Intro  |              be denied that love and philosophy are described by Socrates
277 Intro  |            poetry or fiction, but of philosophy.~Secondly, there seems to
278 Intro  |             any value are the higher philosophy and the power of psychological
279 Intro  |           figures which the Platonic philosophy assumes, are not like the
280 Intro  |           meagre description, a sham philosophy which was the bastard progeny
281 Intro  |           luxurious and commonplace. Philosophy had become extravagant,
282 Text   |      probability, this sort of crude philosophy will take up a great deal
283 Text   |            to banish from him divine philosophy; and there is no greater
284 Text   |          lover, who is not devoid of philosophy, may acquire wings in the
285 Text   |              which lead to order and philosophy prevail, then they pass
286 Text   |           the other hand, they leave philosophy and lead the lower life
287 Text   |           his progeny; bid him study philosophy, like his brother Polemarchus;
288 Text   |        unless he have a knowledge of philosophy. And let Phaedrus answer
289 Text   |          thus imbued with the higher philosophy, and attained the knowledge
290 Text   |            their simplicity to young philosophy, deemed that if they heard
291 Text   |             For he has an element of philosophy in his nature. This is the


Philebus
    Part
292 Intro  |              note of progress in the philosophy of Plato. The transcendental
293 Intro  |   development of the quarrel between philosophy and poetry in Plato’s own
294 Intro  |             and out of them at once. Philosophy had so deepened or intensified
295 Intro  |             the supreme principle of philosophy; and the law of contradiction,
296 Intro  |              the language of ancient philosophy, the relative character
297 Intro  |            and belongs to a stage of philosophy which has passed away. Plato
298 Intro  |     unfortunately no school of Greek philosophy known to us which combined
299 Intro  |              is no side or aspect of philosophy which may not with reason
300 Intro  |            the corner-stone of moral philosophy? To the higher thinker the
301 Intro  |               The schools of ancient philosophy which seem so far from us—
302 Intro  |            undermined in us by false philosophy or the practice of mental
303 Intro  |              posteriori notions, the philosophy of experience, the philosophy
304 Intro  |        philosophy of experience, the philosophy of intuition—all of them
305 Intro  |         determine what history, what philosophy has contributed to them;
306 Intro  |            against a system of moral philosophy so beneficent, so enlightened,
307 Intro  |          that the influence of their philosophy on politics—especially on
308 Intro  |         great word in the history of philosophy would have remained unspoken.
309 Intro  |     extraordinary progress, in moral philosophy we are supposed by them
310 Intro  | depreciatingly of our modern ethical philosophy. For they are the first
311 Intro  |       exactness which is required in philosophy will not allow us to comprehend
312 Intro  |              the other pole of moral philosophy had been excluded. All men
313 Intro  |           several of the virtues. No philosophy has ever stood this criticism
314 Intro  |             no longer the only moral philosophy, but one among many which
315 Intro  |              because the utilitarian philosophy can no longer claim ‘the
316 Intro  |         utility in a system of moral philosophy?’ is analogous to the question
317 Intro  |          Scripture and in nature. No philosophy has supplied a sanction
318 Intro  |          various principles of moral philosophy, we may now arrange our
319 Intro  |              last development of his philosophy. The extreme and one-sided
320 Intro  |            first time has a place in philosophy; the natural claim of dialectic
321 Intro  |           Aristotle by Plato. Of all philosophy and of all art the true
322 Intro  |            the beginnings of his own philosophy. At the time of his death
323 Intro  |          abstractions of the Eleatic philosophy. The dry attempt to reduce
324 Intro  |            to reduce the presocratic philosophy by his own rather arbitrary
325 Intro  |          remains of other schools of philosophy as well as of the Peripatetics.
326 Intro  |            of Hellas. The decline of philosophy during this period is no
327 Intro  |             only from the history of philosophy in later ages. The more
328 Intro  |         saying in which theology and philosophy are blended and reconciled;
329 Intro  |             many questions of modern philosophy which are anticipated in
330 Text   |             to be masters in natural philosophy, who deny the very existence
331 Text   |           the inspirations of divine philosophy.~PROTARCHUS: And now, Socrates,


Protagoras
    Part
332 Intro  |                and the soul of their philosophy is brevity, which was also
333 Intro  |            and interests, threads of philosophy broken and resumed, satirical
334 Intro  |          brevity as the true form of philosophy, evidently with an allusion
335 Intro  |       observed, such as the claim of philosophy advanced for the Lacedaemonians,
336 Intro  |     superficial knowledge of natural philosophy, to which, as in both the
337 Intro  |          later stage of the Platonic philosophy we shall find that both
338 Intro  |            of proverbial and popular philosophy. The moral and intellectual
339 Text   |              the application of your philosophy of synonyms, which enables
340 Text   |              There is a very ancient philosophy which is more cultivated
341 Text   |    Lacedaemonians this excellence in philosophy and speculation: If a man
342 Text   |            character has the love of philosophy even stronger than the love
343 Text   |           was the style of primitive philosophy. Now there was a saying
344 Text   |          will become very eminent in philosophy. Let us come back to the


The Republic
    Book
345 2      |             love of wisdom, which is philosophy? ~They are the same, he
346 2      |          require to unite in himself philosophy and spirit and swiftness
347 3      |      giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising
348 3      |           great student of music and philosophy, at first the high condition
349 3      |          ends by becoming a hater of philosophy, uncivilized, never using
350 5      |             BOOK V: ON MATRIMONY AND PHILOSOPHY~(SOCRATES, GLAUCON, ADEIMANTUS.) ~
351 5      |           and another is an enemy of philosophy; one has spirit, and another
352 5      |              the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness
353 5      |           natures who ought to study philosophy and to be leaders in the
354 6      |                         BOOK VI: THE PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT~(SOCRATES,
355 6      |           nature has no part in true philosophy? ~Certainly not. ~Or again:
356 6      |            fact that the votaries of philosophy, when they carry on the
357 6      |         deeming the best votaries of philosophy to be useless to the rest
358 6      |            and among men like these, philosophy, the noblest pursuit of
359 6      |             be laid to the charge of philosophy any more than the other? ~
360 6      |           had no part or lot in true philosophy. ~Yes, that was said. ~Well,
361 6      |            speak of the imitators of philosophy, what manner of men are
362 6      |          inconsistencies, bring upon philosophy and upon all philosophers
363 6      |          destroys and distracts from philosophy the soul which is the possessor
364 6      |         humbled and taken captive by philosophy, how will his friends behave
365 6      |        ill-educated, divert him from philosophy, no less than riches and
366 6      |          most true, he said. ~And so philosophy is left desolate, with her
367 6      |             out of their trades into philosophy; those who do so being probably
368 6      |      miserable crafts? For, although philosophy be in this evil case, still
369 6      |       unworthy of education approach philosophy and make an alliance with
370 6      |              the worthy disciples of philosophy will be but a small remnant:
371 6      |         conspired to divert him from philosophy; but ill-health kept him
372 6      |             and blessed a possession philosophy is, and have also seen enough
373 6      |             himself. ~The causes why philosophy is in such an evil name
374 6      |               even so this growth of philosophy, instead of persisting,
375 6      |            another character. But if philosophy ever finds in the State
376 6      |            question how the study of philosophy may be so ordered as not
377 6      |            that States should pursue philosophy, not as they do now, but
378 6      |              I said, the students of philosophy are quite young; beginning
379 6      |              they make much ado, for philosophy is not considered by them
380 6      |          youth their study, and what philosophy they learn, should be suited
381 6      |             to use in the service of philosophy; as life advances and the
382 6      |            conventional imitation of philosophy, consisting of words artificially
383 6      |             with a true love of true philosophy. That either or both of
384 6      |              be whenever the muse of philosophy is queen. There is no impossibility
385 6      |            the many entertain toward philosophy originates in the pretenders,
386 6      |              will they be angry with philosophy? Will they disbelieve us,
387 6      |             lifetime in the study of philosophy should not be always repeating
388 7      |             ambition is that of true philosophy. Do you know of any other? ~
389 7      |           which we affirm to be true philosophy? ~Quite so. ~And should
390 7      |             and create the spirit of philosophy, and raise up that which
391 7      |           who elevate astronomy into philosophy appear to me to make us
392 7      |              is that those who study philosophy have no vocation, and this,
393 7      |         greater flood of ridicule on philosophy than she has to endure at
394 7      |           excitement. For when I saw philosophy so undeservedly trampled
395 7      |       applicable to the disciples of philosophy? ~In this way: you know
396 7      |          very natural in students of philosophy such as I have described,
397 7      |            hence, not only they, but philosophy and all that relates to
398 7      |           said that the disciples of philosophy were to be orderly and steadfast,
399 7      |        Suppose, I said, the study of philosophy to take the place of gymnastics
400 7      |         their own lives also; making philosophy their chief pursuit, but,
401 8      |              companion of reason and philosophy, and have honored gymnastics
402 8      |              that? said Adeimantus. ~Philosophy, I said, tempered with music,
403 9      |            which separates them from philosophy and reason, the more strange
404 10     |              ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry; of which there
405 10     |            habit only, and he had no philosophy. And it was true of others
406 10     |              from the first to sound philosophy, and had been moderately


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407 Text   |              say, when praising true philosophy that it is by this that
408 Text   |            pursuing a right and true philosophy receive sovereign power
409 Text   |          desire was directed towards philosophy and education. His own nephews
410 Text   |         mankind-must we not say that philosophy along with me has now been
411 Text   |            any charge on the part of philosophy, which would have been exposed
412 Text   |         listener to my discourses on philosophy, fearing the danger suggested
413 Text   |              power, in which rule if philosophy and power had really met
414 Text   |             extraordinary desire for philosophy. For this reason Dion pressed
415 Text   |           well aware that as regards philosophy such symptoms were not uncommon
416 Text   |           forms a poor opinion of my philosophy, and thinks that the tyrant
417 Text   |       Dionysios had made progress in philosophy. He also sent a very long
418 Text   |          talk of the great truths of philosophy, should feel a craving for
419 Text   |             kindled with the fire of philosophy, or whether all the reports
420 Text   |            should show such men what philosophy is in all its extent; what
421 Text   |             which makes him a kin to philosophy and worthy of it, thinks
422 Text   |              it all ever cleaving to philosophy and to such rules of diet
423 Text   |             of Dionysios’ desire for philosophy, and I had every right to
424 Text   |             to come to the rescue of philosophy and of my friends.~After


The Sophist
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425 Intro  |           and summit of the Platonic philosophy—here is the place at which
426 Intro  |             the day were undermining philosophy; the denial of the existence
427 Intro  |          clothing himself in rags of philosophy, now more akin to the rhetorician
428 Intro  |     dialogues. Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify
429 Intro  |              rhetorician or teacher. Philosophy had become eclecticism and
430 Intro  |         often used of a professor of philosophy in general than of a maintainer
431 Intro  |              no other trace in Greek philosophy; he combines the teacher
432 Intro  |              difficulties of ancient philosophy. We cannot understand the
433 Intro  |          difficulties of early Greek philosophy, is to be sought for in
434 Intro  |       especially true of the Eleatic philosophy: while the absoluteness
435 Intro  |             the mazes of the Eleatic philosophy. And the greater importance
436 Intro  |          influence which the Eleatic philosophy exerted over him. He sees
437 Intro  |       eclecticisms in the history of philosophy. A modern philosopher, though
438 Intro  |          influence which the Eleatic philosophy exercised over him. Under ‘
439 Intro  |           references to contemporary philosophy. Both in the Theaetetus
440 Intro  |            cosmogony and poetry: the philosophy of Heracleitus, supposed
441 Intro  |            the early Ionians. In the philosophy of motion there were different
442 Intro  |             with their over-refining philosophy. The ‘tyros young and old,’
443 Intro  |               Theat.). But how could philosophy explain the connexion of
444 Intro  |              of different schools of philosophy: but in what relation did
445 Intro  |             be hereafter proved. For philosophy must begin somewhere and
446 Intro  |          divides ancient from modern philosophy. Many coincidences which
447 Intro  |          ordinary thought into which philosophy had introduced a principle
448 Intro  |           the Hegelian dialectic. No philosophy which is worth understanding
449 Intro  |              aspects of the Hegelian philosophy may help to dispel some
450 Intro  |         about it. (i) It is an ideal philosophy which, in popular phraseology,
451 Intro  |         divine ideal. The history of philosophy stripped of personality
452 Intro  |            place is gathered up into philosophy, and again philosophy clothed
453 Intro  |           into philosophy, and again philosophy clothed in circumstance
454 Intro  |            each successive system of philosophy and subordinating it to
455 Intro  |              longer the last word of philosophy, for another and another
456 Intro  |         science, and affirms that no philosophy of a narrower type is capable
457 Intro  |             difficulty of presenting philosophy to mankind under the form
458 Intro  |         beyond: or that the study of philosophy, if made a serious business (
459 Intro  |              ancient Greek thinkers, philosophy was a religion, a principle
460 Intro  |              God with the history of philosophy, and to have been incapable
461 Intro  |             could have imagined that philosophy consisted only or chiefly
462 Intro  |           understanding the Hegelian philosophy.~(b) Hegel’s treatment of
463 Intro  |            meaning in conceiving all philosophy under the form of opposites.
464 Intro  |     individual did not exist; in the philosophy of Anaxagoras the idea of
465 Intro  |              the leading thoughts of philosophy were evolved.~There is nothing
466 Intro  |            politics, in religion, in philosophy. Yet, as everybody knows,
467 Intro  |           attempting to know him. In philosophy again there are two opposite
468 Intro  |       ancient world whole schools of philosophy passed away in the vain
469 Intro  |             To the ‘either’ and ‘or’ philosophy (‘Everything is either A
470 Intro  |              chemistry of mechanical philosophy. Similarly in mechanics,
471 Intro  |            at moral and metaphysical philosophy. These sciences have each
472 Intro  |       thinking, is a great height of philosophy. This dearly obtained freedom,
473 Intro  |           beginning was the Hegelian philosophy which has been revealed
474 Intro  |         would have insisted that his philosophy should be accepted as a
475 Intro  |              the method to which all philosophy must conform. Hegel is right
476 Intro  |      philosopher. We may need such a philosophy or religion to console us
477 Intro  |           what more do we want?’~The philosophy of Hegel appeals to an historical
478 Intro  |             and the natural order of philosophy is hardly true even of the
479 Intro  |            thought in the history of philosophy would be as much disarranged
480 Intro  |        meaning in modern and ancient philosophy? Some of them, as for example
481 Intro  |            stages of the early Greek philosophy. Is there any reason why
482 Intro  |              does the coincidence of philosophy and the history of philosophy
483 Intro  |        philosophy and the history of philosophy appear. Many terms which
484 Intro  |       absolutely in the beginning of philosophy, such as ‘Being,’ ‘matter,’ ‘
485 Intro  |             are forced.~The Hegelian philosophy claims, as we have seen,
486 Intro  |            it. Further, the Hegelian philosophy, while giving us the power
487 Intro  |      predecessors, or from the Greek philosophy, and these generally in
488 Intro  |               The first stage of his philosophy answers to the word ‘is,’
489 Intro  |             thought that he gave his philosophy a truly German character
490 Intro  |    phraseology necessarily separates philosophy from general literature;
491 Intro  |       students. The higher spirit of philosophy, the spirit of Plato and
492 Intro  |          basis either in language or philosophy, while others, such as ‘
493 Intro  |          fundamental distinctions of philosophy.~In the Hegelian system
494 Intro  |             cover the whole field of philosophy. But are we therefore justified
495 Intro  |             theory of the history of philosophy which, in Hegel’s own language, ‘
496 Intro  |            skeleton with the name of philosophy and almost of God? When
497 Intro  |           much of the true spirit of philosophy, even when he has ceased
498 Intro  |             find vestiges of his own philosophy in the older German mystics.
499 Intro  |     certainly the greatest critic of philosophy who ever lived. No one else
500 Intro  |         truly says, have no place in philosophy. No one has won so much