A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
was originally a painter. He took part in the Indian ex- pedition of Alexander the Great. He left no writings, and we owe our kn ...
others, such activity is but a futile struggle about nothing, for all things are equally indifferent, and nothing matters. Betwe ...
ticism is its return to the position of Pyrrho. The New Academy, in its eagerness to overthrow the Stoic dogma- tism, had fallen ...
Chapter 31 CHAPTER XVIII TRANSITION TO NEO-PLATONISM It has been doubted whether Neo-Platonism ought to be included in Greek phi ...
ments, it draws its inspiration wholly from the philosophies of the past, from the thought and culture of Greece. On the whole, ...
unthinkable and the ineffable, and His nature is beyond the reach of reason. The human soul reaches up to God, not through thoug ...
Chapter 32 CHAPTER XIX THE NEO-PLATONISTS The word Neo-Platonism is a misnomer. It does not stand for a genuine revival of Plato ...
predicates limit their subject, and hence nothing can be predicated of the One. He is unthinkable, for all thought limits and co ...
It has a two-fold aspect, inclining upwards to the Nous on the one hand, and downwards to the world of nature on the other. It p ...
It was natural that philosophy should end here. For philos- ophy is founded upon reason. It is the effort to comprehend, to unde ...
Chapter 33 SUBJECT INDEX A Abortions, 291. Absolute, The; as many in one, 70-71, 197; as reason, 240-1, 307; as knowable, 299; a ...
Chapter 34 B Becoming; Parmenides on, 44; Heracleitus on, 73; Empedocles on, 82; Plato on, 192; Aristotle on, 279-280 Being; Par ...
Chapter 35 C Causation, 6-7; as explanation, 64; Aristotle’s doctrine of, 267-73. Classification, 199. Comedy, 330-1. Concepts; ...
Chapter 36 D Darwinism, 293. Death, problem of, 76-7. Democracy, 123, 325. Dialectic, 55, 183, 199, 204. Dichotomy, 200. Divisio ...
Chapter 37 E Eclipses, 103. Ecstasy, 376-7. Efficient cause, 269; identified with final cause, 273-4. Elements, The Four, 83. Em ...
Chapter 38 F Faith, age of, 151. Family, The; Aristotle on, 324. Final cause, 269; identified with formal cause, 273. Fire, as f ...
Chapter 39 G Genius, artistic, 231. Geocentric hypothesis, 38, 211, 305. Geometry, 3-5, 275. God; Xenophanes on, 41-2; Socrates ...
Chapter 40 H Habit, 7. Happiness; Antisthenes on, 159; Plato on, 220-1; Aristotle on, 314-15; Stoics on, 351; Epicurus on, 358, ...
Chapter 41 I Idealism; of Parmenides, 47 et seq; essentials of, 48, 49, 235; Plato as founder of, 235. Ideas, Theory of, 174, 18 ...
Insight, moral, 318. Intuition, 153, 375, 377. Irony, of Socrates, 130. ...
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