A history of philosophy, from Thales to the present time. Tr. by G.S. Morris, with additions by N. Porter, Volume 1

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Periods of Development of Greek Philosophy 2629
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FIRST PERIOD OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY PRESOPHISTIC PHILOSOPHY OR PREVALENCE OF COSMOLOGY 10 Fourfold Division of the Firs...
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Thales of Miletus and Hippo 3235
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13 Anaximander of Miletus 3537
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Xenophones of Colophon
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The Later Natural Philosophers
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Anaxagoras and Hermotimus of Clazomenĉ Archelaus of Miletus
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Protagoras of Abdera
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The Later Sophists
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35 Euclid of Megara and his School
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Aristippus of Cyrene and the Cyrenaic or Hedonic School 9598
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Platos Life 98104
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Platos Writings 104115
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Platos Divisions of Philosophy and his Dialectic 115123
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Platos Natural Philosophy 123128
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Platos Ethics 128132
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The Old Middle and New Academies 133137
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Aristotles Life 137139
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Aristotles Writings 139151
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Aristotles Divisions of Philosophy and his Logic 151157
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Aristotles Metaphysics or First Philosophy 157163
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Aristotles Natural Philosophy 163169
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The Aristotelian Ethics and Esthetics 169180
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The Peripatetics 180185
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The Leading Stoics 185191
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The Stoic Division of Philosophy and the Stoic Logic 191193
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The Physics of the Stoics 194197
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The Stoic Ethics 197200
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The Epicureans 201203
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The Epicurean Division of Philosophy and the Canonic of the Epicureans 203205
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Epicurean Physics 205208
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Epicurean Ethics 208212
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Skepticism 212217
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61 Eclecticism Cicero The Sextians 217222
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THIRD PERIOD OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY THE NEOPLATONISTS AND THEIR PREDECESSORS OR PREDOMINANCE OF THEOSOPHY 62 ...
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63 Aristobulus and Philo 223232
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA 71 General Character of the Philosophy of the Christian Era
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Principal Divisions of the Patristic Philosophy 263271
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The Christian Religion Jesus and his Apostles The New Testament 264271
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Jewish and Pauline Christianity 271274
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76 The Apostolic Fathers 274280
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The Gnostics 280290
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Justin Martyr 290294
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79 Tatian Athenagoras Theophilus and Hermias 294299
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Irenĉus and Hippolytus 299303
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Tertullian 303306
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Monarchianism Arianism and Athanasianism 306311
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Clement of Alexandria and Origen 311319
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84 Minutius Felix Arnobius and Lactantius 319325
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Gregory of Nyssa and other Disciples of Origen 325333
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Saint Augustine 333346
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Greek Fathers after Augustines Time 347352
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Latin Fathers after Augustines Time 352355
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Definition and Divisions of the Scholastic Philosophy 355377
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THE BEGINNINGS OF SCHOLASTICISM 90 Johannes Scotus Erigena 358365
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Realism and Nominalism from the ninth until near the end of the eleventh century 365371
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Roscellinus the Nominalist and William of Champeaux the Realist 371377
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Anselm of Canterbury 377386
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Abelard and other Scholastics and Mystics of the twelfth century 386402
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Greek and Syrian Philosophers of the Middle Ages 402405
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96 Arabian Philosophy in the Middle Ages 405417
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97 The Philosophy of the Jews in the Middle Ages 417428
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The Revolution in the Scholastic Philosophy about A D 1200 429432
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Bonaventura the Mystic 433463
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100 Albertus Magnus 436440
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101 Thomas of Aquino and the Thomists 440452
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102 Johannes Duns Scotus and the Scotists 452457
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103 Contemporaries of Thomas and of Duns Scotus 457460
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William of Occam the Renewer of Nominalism 460464
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105 Later Scholastics previous to the Renewal of Platonism 464467
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German Mysticism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Eckhart Tauler and others 467484
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SUPPLEMENT 485487
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Page 405 - Neo-Platonists and Christians, and that in consequence of the union among the former of philosophical with medical studies the works of Aristotle on natural science should be studied by them with especial zeal. Of the Arabian philosophers in the East, the most important were Alkendi...
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