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| Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato.
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Chapter XV.—Socrates;
His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato.
Socrates, then, was a hearer of Archelaus, the
natural philosopher; and he, reverencing the rule, “Know
thyself,” and having assembled a large school, had Plato (there),
who was far superior to all his pupils. (Socrates) himself left
no writings108
| 108 Or,
“writing.” Still Socrates may be called the father of
the Greek philosophy. “From the age of Aristotle and Plato,
the rise of the several Greek sects may be estimated as so many
successful or abortive efforts to carry out the principles enunciated
by Socrates.”—Translator’s Treatise on
Metaphysics, chap. iii. p. 45. | after him.
Plato, however, taking notes109
| 109 This word
signifies to take impressions from anything, which justifies the
translation, historically correct, given above. Its literal
import is “wipe clean,” and in this sense Hippolytus may
intend to assert that Plato wholly appropriated the philosophy of
Socrates. (See Diogenes Laertius, xi. 61, where the same word
occurs.) | of
all his (lectures on) wisdom, established a school, combining together
natural, ethical, (and) logical (philosophy). But the points
Plato determined are these following.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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