Plato, And the Other Companions of Sokrates, volume 1
Plato, And the Other Companions of Sokrates, volume 1
George Grote
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L. vi. 105). Digitized by Google CHAP. HI. AHUBTHBNES THE CYNIC. 151 they were still farther exaggerated. Epiktetus, a warm admirer of both, considers them as following up the mission from Zens which Sokrates (in the Platonic Apology) sets forth as his authority, to make men independent of the evils of life by purifying and disciplining the appreciation of good and evil in the mind of each individual. 1 Antisthenes declared virtue to be the End for men to aim at — and to be sufficient per as fo...r conferring happiness ; T ^ rk , but he also declared that virtue must be manifested Antisthenes in acts and character, not by words. Neither much ^Sd^J discourse nor much learning was required for virtue ; ascetic. He nothing else need be postulated except bodily muScjitera- strength like that of Sokrates. 1 He undervalued *J£JkJJJ d theory even in regard to Ethics: much more in regard to Nature (Physics) and to Logic: he also despised literary, geometrical, musical teaching, as distracting men's attention from the regulation of their own appreciative sentiment, and the adaptation of their own conduct to it He maintained strenuously (what several Platonic dialogues call in question) that virtue both could be taught and must be taught: when once learnt, it was permanent, and could not be eradicated.
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