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To tell you the truth, I have asked them already to exhibit their prowess on these Libyans, and what do you suppose they answered? 'They refused, I hope. 'They told me in the most insolent tone that they were men, and not stage-players; and hired to fight, and not to butcher. I expected a Socratic dialogue after such a display of dialectic, and bowed myself out. 'They were right.
His writings are in a sense a vindication of the honesty of his master, although the picture he draws of him is not so true to life as that of Xenophon. The dialogues fall into two well-marked classes; in the earlier the method and inspiration is definitely Socratic, but in the later Socrates is a mere peg on which Plato hung his own system.
"Ay, by Pollux," said the friar, with a chuckle; "I blistered him with a single touch of 'Socratic interrogation. What modern can parry the weapons of antiquity." One afternoon, when Gerard had finished his day's work, a fine lackey came and demanded his attendance at the Palace Cesarini. He went, and was ushered into a noble apartment; there was a girl seated in it, working on a tapestry.
Aeschines the Socratic, now, author of dialogues as witty as they are long, brought them with him to Sicily in the hope that they would gain him the royal notice of Dionysius; having given a reading of the Miltiades, and found himself famous, he settled down in Sicily to sponge on Dionysius and forget Socratic composition.
Tell me, do you seriously think of drowning yourself this afternoon?" "Rather," said the undergraduate. "A meiosis in common use, equivalent to 'Yes, assuredly," murmured the Duke. "And why," he then asked, "do you mean to do this?" "Why? How can you ask? Why are YOU going to do it?" "The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play. Please answer my question, to the best of your ability."
Her family were kept at his expense, her daughter loved as his own, and if she were haughty or exacting, he suffered with a Socratic patience, thinking life with her a privilege. It is to be supposed that a member of the societies of the Cauldron and the Trowel would appreciate good living. This love of good living, however, in the end shortened his life, according to Biadi.
Brook now put to Tishy. Tishy, after a stare about, recovered the acuter consciousness to account for this guest. "Oh yes she's playing with him." "But with whom, dear?" "Why, with Petherton. I thought you knew." "Knew they're playing ?" Mrs. Brook was almost Socratic. "The Missus is regularly wound up," her husband meanwhile, without resonance, observed to Vanderbank. "Brilliant indeed!"
We have also remarked upon the futility of looking therein for any actual enlightenment on the Socratic point of view. And Plato makes Socrates state this with all necessary sharpness in the Apology. Hence what we may infer from the attack of Aristophanes is merely this, that the general public lumped Socrates together with the sophists and more especially regarded him as a godless fellow.
It is in the Memorabilia that we get the clear statement of this, and, therefore, it is a Socratic teaching which can, fortunately, be definitely distinguished from the Platonic treatment of the subject.
He is not one of those unsocial philosophers who put their best thoughts into books to be kept in cold storage for posterity. My Philosopher is eminently social, and is conversational in his method. He belongs to the ancient school of the Peripatetics, and the more rapidly he is moving the more satisfactory is the flow of his ideas. He is a great believer in the Socratic method.
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