Philosophy and the Social Problem
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Philosophy and the Social Problem is by Will Durant. A passage says that Socrates agreed with the Sophists in condemning any but a very temporary devotion to metaphysical abstractions. The text also says that with the Sophists philosophy was a profession, while with Socrates philosophy was a quest of the permanently good, of the lastingly satisfying attitude to life.
The contents list Part I, Historical Approach, with a chapter on The Present Significance of the Socratic Ethic that includes History as rebarbarization and Philosophy as disintegrator. A passage reads that love is a secret path to the heart of the powerful, in order to become his master, and that gratitude is revenge of a lofty kind.
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- Will Durant
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- 132
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- English
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- Sociology
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