Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1

CHAPTER I.

Speculative Philosophy in Greece, before and in the time of Sokrates.

Change in the political condition of Greece during the life of Plato 1

Early Greek mind, satisfied with the belief in polytheistic personal agents, as the real producing causes of phenomena 2

Belief in such agency continued among the general public, even after the various sects of ...