A History of Western Philosophy

has been derived from it. Mathematical knowledge, it is true, is not obtained by induction from experience; our reason for belie ...

cal importance is that it regards physical phenomena as possibly discontinuous. It suggests that, in an atom (interpreted as abo ...

sun." But although the sun of our visual experience is very different from the sun of the astronomer, it is still a source of kn ...

they have invented arguments, often very sophistical, to prove that these beliefs are true. For my part I reprobate this kind of ...

INDEX Aaron, first Jewish high priest (fl. 1200? B.C.), 440 Abbasid dynasty, 421 , 422 Abdera, 64 , 76 Abdon, judge in Israel, 3 ...

acquired characteristics, 726 Acragas, 53 , 56 , 305 Acropolis, 59 action, 200 , 792 , 797 -800, 806 , 810 activist point of vie ...

Agilulph, King of the Lombards (fl. ca. 599), 384 Agnes of Poitou, mother of Emperor Henry IV, 412 , 413 agnosticism, 703 agricu ...

Alexander III, Pope (reigned 1159-1181), 433 * Alexander VI, Pope (reigned 1492-1503), 498 499, 505 , 506 , 508 , 510 , 511 Alex ...

amnesia, 797 Amsterdam, 548 , 569 Anabaptists, 363 , 523 , 555 , 597 Anacreon, Greek lyric poet ( 560?-475? B.C.), 30 Anagni, 47 ...

Annals (Tacitus), 222 †Anschauung, 708 , 713 Anselm, St., Italian scholastic philosopher ( 10331109), 306 , 416 -418, 436 , 43 ...

Apollonius of Tyana, Greek Neo-Pythagorean philosopher, (fl. 1st cent. B.C.), 280 Apology (Plato), 84 -89, 91 , 92 , 224 Apostle ...

Argenteuil, 437 Argonauts, 517 "Arguments Against Belief in a God" (Sextus Empiricus), 238 -239 arguments for God, 585 , 588 -58 ...

Aristotle (Zeller), 166 arithmetic, 3 , 36 , 37 , 198 , 563 , 663 -664, 714 , 830 ; and the Greeks, 31 *, 35 , 36 , 131 , 132 , ...

astronomy, 34 , 47 , 318 , 349 , 465 , 563 , 687 , 827 , 833 -834; and ancient philosophy, 25 , 54 , 131 , 148 , 168 , 181 , 208 ...

Augustine, St., Bishop of Hippo ( 354 -430), 37 , 271 , 318 , 336 , 344 -352, 406 *, 414 , 440 , 692 , 749 ; and St. Ambrose, 34 ...

Bailey, Cyril, cited, 64 , 66 , 69 , 71 , 245 *; quoted, 240 , 241 , 244 Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Russian anarchist ...

Behemoth ( Hobbes), 548 being, 55 , 288 -290, 467 , 473 , 733 Bel, 219 , 227 belief(s), 309 , 328 , 418 , 470 , 691 , 694 , 776 ...

Bernard, St., Benedictine monk (fl. 12 th cent.), 411 , 432 , 437 , 438 -440; quoted, 432 , 439 -440 Berosus, Chaldean priest (f ...

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, Roman statesman and philosopher ( 480?-524?), 212 , 303 , 304 , 337 , 369 , 370 -373, 439 ; ...

brain, 797 -798, 799 , 808 , 809 Bramhall, John, Bishop of Derry ( 1594-1663), 548 Brazil, 621 Britain, 260 , 366 , 382 , 394 , ...