A critical history of Greek philosophy

Name: A critical history of Greek philosophy
Author: Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

Philosophy, Ancient

abandon treatment in historical order altogether. Lastly, I may remark
that the description of this book as a _critical_ history means that it
is, or attempts to be critical, not of dates, texts, readings, and the
like, but of philosophical conceptions.

I owe a debt of thanks to Mr. F. L. Woodward, M.A., late principal of
Mahinda College, Galle, Ceylon, for assisting me in the compilation of
the index of names, and in sundry other matters.

W.T.S.

_January_, 1920.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER                                                  PAGE

I.    THE IDEA OF PHILOSOPHY IN GENERAL. THE
      ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY           1

II.   THE IONICS. THALES. ANAXIMANDER.
      ANAXIMENES. OTHER IONIC THINKERS                    20

III.  THE PYTHAGOREANS                                    31

IV.   THE ELEATICS. XENOPHANES. PARMENIDES.
      ZENO. CRITICAL REMARKS ON ELEATICISM                40

V.    HERACLEITUS                                         72

VI.   EMPEDOCLES                                          81

VII.  THE ATOMISTS                                        86

VIII. ANAXAGORAS                                          94

IX.   THE SOPHISTS                                       106

X.    SOCRATES                                           127

XI.   THE SEMI-SOCRATICS. THE CYNICS. THE
      CYRENAICS. THE MEGARICS                            155

XII.  PLATO                                              164

      (i.) Life and writings                             165

      (ii.) The theory of knowledge                      177

      (iii.) Dialectic, or the theory of Ideas           183

      (iv.) Physics, or the theory of existence          207

            (a) The doctrine of the world                207

            (b) The doctrine of the human soul           211

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      (v.) Ethics                                        217

           (a) Of the individual                         217

           (b) The State                                 225

      (vi.) Views upon art                               229

      (vii.) Critical estimate of Plato's philosophy     234

XIII. ARISTOTLE:

      (i.) Life, Writings, and general character of
           his work                                      249

      (ii.) Logic                                        260

      (iii.) Metaphysics                                 261

      (iv.) Physics, or the philosophy of nature         288

      (v.) Ethics:

           (a) The individual                            314

           (b) The State                                 320

      (vi.) Aesthetics, or the theory of art             325

      (vii.) Critical estimate of
             Aristotle's philosophy                      331

XIV.   THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF POST-ARISTOTELIAN
       PHILOSOPHY                                        339

XV.    THE STOICS. LOGIC. PHYSICS. ETHICS                344

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