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
Schools, the
214, 218–226;
fusion of doctrines in, 269;
after 150 B. C., notable names in, 271.
_See_ Academy, Lyceum, etc.
Science
early tendencies toward, among the Greeks, 10, 11;
growth of, in Hellenic-Roman period, 216, 217;
secular, of the age of Augustine, 339;
and religion, the separation of, under Duns Scotus, 387, 388.
Scotus, Duns
gave a new direction to philosophy, 369;
upheld the primacy of the Will, 385, 386;
the founder of the Franciscan tradition (life and philosophical
position of), 386, 387;
his conception of the twofold truth, 387;
the inscrutable will of God, according to, 388, 389;
the problem of individuality, according to, 389, 390;
the course of philosophy after, 390, 391.
Secondary and primary qualities
116.
Secular science of the age of Augustine
339.
Seignobos, Charles
_History of Mediæval Civilization_, 373 n.
Seneca
quoted, 234.
Sensationalism
defined, 104 n.
Sensationalistic skepticism
268, 269.
Sextus Empiricus
268.
Sill
_The Two Aphrodites_, 153 n.
Simplicius
299.
Skepticism
what it is, 69;
the undercurrent of, in the Hellenic-Roman period, 209–211;
philosophic, the appearances of, 264, 265;
the three phases of, 265–269;
of the Academy, 266–268;
sensationalistic, 268, 269.
Socrates, and Aristophanes
opposed the Sophists, 74;
works on, for reading, 75;
personality and life of, 75–80;
his dæmon, 77, 83;
and the Sophists, 80–82;
unsystematic character of his philosophy, 82, 83;
the ideal of, 83–85;
what his ideal involves, 85–88;
the two steps of his method, 88–91;
and Athens, 91;
the logical expedients of, 92, 93;
and the Lesser Socratics, 93–95.
Socratics
the Lesser, and Socrates, 93–95.
Sophists
significance of, 64–67;
the prominent, 67, 68;
the philosophy of, 68–71;
the ethics of, 71–73;
summary of their work, 73;
met in two ways by Socrates and Aristophanes, 74;
and Socrates, 80–82.
Soul
Plato’s doctrine of, 145–150;
according to Aristotle, 196, 197;
of Plotinus, 295, 297, 298.
Spenser, Edmund
_Hymn in Honor of Beauty_, 153 n.
Spiritual authority
the need of, 275–277;
the turning to the present for, 287, 288.
Spirituality
rise of the conception of, 277–279.
State
Plato’s doctrine of, 155–158;
and church, Aquinas’s and Dante’s views of, 382.
Stoic school, the
222–225;
inclines to eclecticism, 269, 270.
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