Sentences with phrase «socratic man»

In Socratic man, we noted a further development of great importance.

However, for Socratic man this idea was not determinative for the axial development.

The limitation which has been noted was that Socratic man's self - identification with one factor within the soul alongside other factors prevented the incipient sense of personal responsibility for the psychic life in general from coming to fruition.

Not exact matches

While the Socratic self - examination was self - serving, the Bible reveals the larger importance that acts of individual men and women can assume.

Between man and man the Socratic midwifery is the highest relation, and begetting is reserved for the God, whose love is creative, but not merely in the sense which Socrates so beautifully expounds on a certain festal occasion.

But the God had also another reason; for between man and man the Socratic relationship is the highest and truest.

However, with all this we have not yet got any further than the Socratic position; for, as Socrates would say, if this comes about, then it only shows that such a man had not understood what is right.

The Socratic world into which Egyptian or Syrian man was called by Hellenization was indeed an alien and resented world.

However, with respect to this Socratic position, as with respect to many other Socratic positions, how many men have felt a need of going further?

What an innumerable number have felt the need of going further than the Socratic ignorance — presumably because they felt that it was impossible for them to stay there; for in every generation how many men are there that are capable, even for only a month, of enduring and existentially expressing ignorance about everything?

Socratic reason, in its modern scientific form, has rendered the Buddhist doctrines of no - self and no - God more plausible to many modern men than opposed Christian convictions.

However, in this case, unlike those of Socratic and prophetic existence, men experienced themselves as thrust out of preaxial existence by partly unwelcome forces, concretely the cultural imperialism of the Hellenistic empires, which drew men toward Socratic existence.

Because of the essential character of Socratic existence, the identification of the self with active reason, Socrates could not attribute to the self a responsibility for the evil which a man enacted.

There is some intellectual dishonesty, congruence, and implicit condescension in Bill Nye's arguments which is quite the turn - off for me, a college student, looking up to this man and trying to learn the truth using the Socratic method.

This spirit has been suffocated by the Socratic presumption that «virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy,» and Nietzsche indicts his age for «that Socratism which is bent on the destruction of myth.

The EVIL GENIUS over at Stand By For Mind Control Blog nails the problem with modern screenwriting, as evidenced by MAN OF STEEL, right here in Socratic dialogue mode: