CONTENTS. 



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jESOP -------------- 1 



Precepts ------------11 



SOCRATES : 



Philosophy of the Early Poets ------__15 



Wise Men of Greece ---------- 16 



JSsop ------------- 16 



Thales ___---______ 17 



Anaximander ----------- 19 



Anaximenes ___________ 20 



Leucippus and Democritus ________ 21 



Anaxagoras -_-________21 



Diogenes Apolloniates -___-____ 24 



Archelaus ----_-___-__ 24 



Prevalence of Superstition in Greece - - - _ - -26 



The Sophists _-----_-___ 26 



Protagoras ---------___ 29 



Gorgias --_-______-- 29 



Prodicus _---____-_*__ 29 



Hippias - - __________ 3Q 



Effects produced by the teaching of the Sophists - 32 



Dialectics -----_----__ 32 



Socrates ---_--______ 33 



Birth _---__-_____ 33 



Philosophy __________ 37 



Character _-- ________ 42 



Death ------______ 49 



Sects founded by his followers _---_-- 50 



PLATO : 



Birth _______ 53 



Early Writings -----______ 54 



Philosophy of Italy Heraclitus _______ 57 



Pythagoras and his followers -------- 53 



