Sentences with phrase «socratic spirit»

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He thus embodies in his attitude an equal proportion of the autopathic and the sympathetic Such also was the Socratic understanding, and hence he would accept neither praise nor honors nor money for his instruction, but passed judgment with the incorruptibility of a departed spirit.

This is purely in the Greek spirit — yet not Socratic, for Socrates was too much of an ethicist for that.

The Christian martyr often died with spirited passion, completely unnerving to Socratic dispassion.

The sense of alienation both from the unconscious and from the world of Socratic reason created a consciousness of self or spirit as something wholly other to all the rest of the psychic life.

«The Socratic secret,» wrote Kierkegaard, «which must be preserved in Christianity unless the latter is to be an infinite backward step, and which in Christianity receives an intensification, by means of a more profound inwardness which makes it infinite, is that the movement of the spirit is inward, that the truth is the subject's transformation in himself.»

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.