3. Conception of Virtue 134 4. The State 135 VI. THE PERIPATETIC SCHOOL 136 VII. TRANSITION TO THE POST-ARISTOTELIAN PHILOSOPHY 137 XVII.—STOICISM 138 1. Logic 139 2. Physics 140 3. Ethics 142 (1.) Respecting the Relation of Virtue to Pleasure 142 (2.) The View of the Stoics concerning External Good 142 (3.) Farther Verification of this View 143 (4.) Impossibility of furnishing a System of Concrete Moral Duties from this Standpoint 143 XVIII.-EPICUREANISM 145 XIX.—SCEPTICISM AND THE NEW ACADEMY 148 1. The Old Scepticism 149 2. The New Academy 150 3. The Later Scepticism 151 XX.—THE ROMANS 152 XXI.—NEW PLATONISM 154 1. Ecstasy as a Subjective State 154 2. The Cosmical Principles 154 3. The Emanation Theory of the New Platonists 155 XXII.—CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLASTICISM 157 1. The Christian Idea 157 2. Scholasticism 159 3. Nominalism and Realism 160 XXIII.—TRANSITION TO THE MODERN PHILOSOPHY 161 1. Fall of Scholasticism 161 2. The Results of Scholasticism 162 3. The Revival of Letters 163 4. The German Reformation 164 5. The Advancement of the Natural Sciences 165 6. Bacon of Verulam 166 7. The Italian Philosophers of the Transition Epoch 167 8. Jacob Boehme 169