Socratism

Megaric dialectic, an outgrowth of early Socratism, and the suspension of judgment so dear to skeptics can without great effort be found in the Platonic Socrates, if one is selective enough.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968

In this sense, he was a consistent follower of his own principle of "Christian Socratism," developed in the De Magistro and the De catechezandis rudibus.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

There is something in the morality of Plato which does not really belong to Plato, but which only appears in his philosophy, one might say, in spite of him: namely, Socratism, for which he himself was too noble.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

Socratism, which takes unto itself a wife, and suffers accordingly.

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

a spokesman of his century which, in spite of the increasing number of publications on Plato, can scarcely be called an age of Platonism but may be called an age of Socratism.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968