. History of psychology; a sketch and an interpretation. tes had shownthe meaning of the subjective. CHAPTER IV Greek Speculation, Second Period:Subjectivism ^OCRATES, Plato, and the Minor SocraticSchools.—The significance of subjectivism in racial and individual thought alike is this:it isolates the contents of the mind itself fromtheir external references and discloses the pos-sible interpretations that may be placed uponthem. To say that the senses deceive, is to saythat the interpretation put upon sensation isincorrect or false. To say that knowledge isrelative, is to say that our percepts
. History of psychology; a sketch and an interpretation. tes had shownthe meaning of the subjective. CHAPTER IV Greek Speculation, Second Period:Subjectivism ^OCRATES, Plato, and the Minor SocraticSchools.—The significance of subjectivism in racial and individual thought alike is this:it isolates the contents of the mind itself fromtheir external references and discloses the pos-sible interpretations that may be placed uponthem. To say that the senses deceive, is to saythat the interpretation put upon sensation isincorrect or false. To say that knowledge isrelative, is to say that our percepts, images,etc., are capable on occasion of varying inter-pretations. To say that reason is ineffective,is to say, that the beliefs, presuppositions, andprocesses which are its tools are these misinterpretations turn upon the factthat consciousness possesses data which aretaken to be subjective. To take the subjective point of view is simplyto recognise this in some measure; to acknow-ledge that we must deal first of all with what is56. Socrates. (Copyright. Reproduced by kind permission of the Open Court PublishingCo., Chicago, ) I Subjectivism 57 in the mind, with percepts, images, hypotheses,etc., made up in consciousness; in short, withideas. It recognises that ideas intervenein some sense between the perceiver and thething perceived; that ideas are the mediatingor instrumental term in knowledge. I. Socrates (469-399 ).— The Sophistsdenied in effect the possibility of passing beyondideas. To them the interpretations made bythe preceding philosophers were all alike false;all that was left for knowledge was the body ofideas itself. Man, the possessor of ideas, wasthe measure of all things. Now in the teaching of Socrates, we find anew sort of interpretation of ideas the subjective point of view of theSophists, Socrates built positively upon it in twodifferent directions, which we may call withoutviolence the social direction a
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