ABSTRACT
The strength of Socrates' character, the motive power of his life, sprang from piety of mind and heart. Xenophon relates a conversation which he heard between Socrates and Aristodemus, the latter of whom took up rather a superior attitude to religious sentiments, in which the master made use of his characteristic methods. The important point, however, is that in advocating the recognition of that which is ultra and supraphysical, of Mind, in the Universe, Socrates is supported by all modern idealistic philosophy, as well as by the representatives of religion. For Socrates, indeed, and Plato, as for modern philosophers like T. H. Green, Reason and Will towards the Good are but two expressions of the one fact. The Socrates of Xenophon and Plato seems to use the singular and the plural almost indifferently. In the former Socrates leads on Euthyphro from one definition to another, showing him that none of them are satisfactory or self-consistent.
