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
Emerton, Ephraim
_Mediæval Europe_, 374 n.
Empedocles
his conception of change, 40;
his conception of the element, 40;
his doctrine of the efficient cause, 41;
his life, 43;
the philosophy of, 44, 45.
Empiricism
104 n.
End
defined, 105 n.
_Entelechy_
186.
Epic, Greek
importance of the, 8–10.
Epictetus
243, 246.
Epicureanism
one of the New Schools, 222–225;
and Stoicism, summary of agreements and differences, 225, 226;
and the teaching of Aristippus, 229;
ideal of, 230–233;
the place of virtue in, 233;
the Wise Man of, 234–236.
_See_ Epicurus.
Epicureans, the
228.
Epicurus
life of, 227, 228;
and Aristippus, 229;
his ideal, 230–233;
his conception of the physical world, 238–240.
_See_ Epicureanism.
Epistemology
Democritus’ contribution to, 114–116.
Erigena, John Scotus
349, 350;
life and teaching of, 350–352;
the Greek principle which he formulated for the Middle Ages,
352, 353.
Eristic
defined, 60.
Ethical period of the Hellenic-Roman period
208;
general characteristics of, 215–218.
Ethics
tendency toward, among early Greeks, 11, 12;
of the Sophists, 71–73;
of Democritus, 116–118;
Plato’s theory of, 153–158;
of Aristotle, 199–202;
of Plotinus, 297, 298.
Eucken, Rudolf
_Problem of Human Life_, 336 n.
Euclid
founder of the school at Megara, 93.
Eudæmonism
87.
Euhemerism
96.
Eusebius
on Aristotle, 167.
Euthydemus
68.
Evil
the problem of, according to Stoicism, 260, 261.
Fairbanks, Arthur
_First Philosophers of Greece_, 6 n.
Falckenberg, Richard
_History of Modern Philosophy_, 3 n.
Final cause
defined, 105 n.;
according to Aristotle, 187.
Fire
Heracleitus’s doctrine of, 30–32.
Form and Matter
in Aristotle, 186–192, 197–199;
in Thomas Aquinas, 384.
Formal cause
187.
Franciscan tradition, the
385–387.
Freedom
the problem of, according to Epicurus, 240;
according to Stoicism, 260, 261;
according to Origen, 316, 317;
according to Augustine, 345;
according to Duns Scotus, 389.
Gerbert
350.
Glaber
quoted, 354.
Gnomic poets
Greek, 10–12.
Gnosticism
310–312;
the reaction against, 312–314.
God
Plato’s conception of, 141, 142;
Aristotle’s conception of, 190, 191;
His will and His intellect, 386, 388, 389.
Goethe
quoted, 129, 167.
Good
Plato’s Idea of the, 140–142, 144;
Plato’s theory of the, development of, 153, 154;
the, of the Stoics, 250, 251.
Gorgias
66, 67;
the nihilism of, 70, 71.
Gospel
the Hellenizing of, 302–318.
_See_ Christianity.
Greece
after the Persian Wars, 57–64.
Greek Enlightenment, the
58–64, 82.
Greek-Jewish philosophy of Philo
281–284;
and neo-Platonism, 288.
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