A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Ancient and Mediæval PhilosophyCushman, Herbert Ernest
Philosophy
A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Ancient and Mediæval Philosophy
Cushman, Herbert Ernest
Philosophy -- History
Constantinople
an intellectual centre, 372 n.
Cosmas map, the
335.
Cosmological period of Greek philosophy
12, 13;
treated, 15–54.
Cosmologist
characteristics of the, 18–20;
table of, 20;
their philosophical question, 20, 21;
where they lived, 21;
results of their philosophy, 53, 54.
Cosmology
defined, 13.
Crates of Thebes
95.
Critical attitude of mind
among the Greeks, 61–64;
of Socrates, 80.
Crusades, the
374, 375.
Cusanus, Nicolas
394.
Cynic school, the
93–97.
Cynics and Stoics
246, 247.
Cyrenaic school, the
93–97.
Cyrenaics
their teaching, and Epicureanism, 229, 230.
Dante
on Aristotle, 167;
used Ptolemaic conception of the universe, 324, 325;
diagram of his poetic conception of the universe, 376;
his view of the state and the church, 382 n.;
placed the intellectual virtues above the practical, 383 n.
Dark Ages, the
347–349.
Deduction
182.
Definition
Socrates one of the first to use it correctly, 92.
Democritus
his place in Greek history, 98–100, 103;
and Plato, their similarities and differences, 104–106;
life of, 106–108;
comprehensiveness of his aim, 108;
the enriched physics of, 109–111;
the materialistic psychology of, 111–114;
his theory of knowledge, 114–116;
the ethical theory of, 116–118;
a wide traveler, 123;
advanced age at which he finished his education, 125.
Development
according to Aristotle, 178, 179, 185–187.
De Wulf
_History of Mediæval Philosophy_, 336 n., 384.
Dialectic
defined, 60, 131.
Dill, Samuel
_Roman Society_ cited, 274 n.
Diogenes
95.
Dionysiodorus
68.
Dogma
_See_ Reason.
Dominican tradition
Thomas Aquinas the founder of, 380, 381;
intellectualism the central principle in, 385.
Doxography
6.
Drama
the Greek, 60, 61.
Dualism
defined, 51 n.;
the Pythagorean, 51, 52;
of the Systematic period of Greek philosophy, 102, 103.
Dynamic pantheism of Plotinus
293.
Eckhart
369, 386.
Eclectic Platonists, the
285.
Eclecticism
264, 265, 269–272.
Efficient cause
introduction of conception of, by the Pluralists, 41;
defined, 105 n.;
Aristotle’s conception of, 187.
Elean-Eretrian school, the
93.
Eleatic school
and Milesian school, Xenophanes the connecting link between, 26;
lives of Parmenides and Zeno, 32, 35;
teaching of, compared with that of the Milesians and
Heracleitus, 22 f.;
the philosophy of, 33–37;
and Heracleitus, results of the conflict between, 37, 38.
Element, the
as conceived by the Pluralists, 40, 41.
Eleusinian
_See_ Mysteries.
Emanations
the world of, according to Plotinus, 294–297.
Emerson, R. W.
_Essay on Love_, 153 n.;
_Initial, Dæmonic, and Celestial Love_, 153 n.
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