A Short History of Greek PhilosophyMarshall, J. (John)
Philosophy
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
Marshall, J. (John)
Philosophy, Ancient
Aristotle, on Thales, 4; on Xenophanes, 32; on Zeno, 42; on Melissus,
47; on Anaxagoras, 54; on Empedocles, 59, 63, 70; a complete Socratic,
103; on Socrates, 106; on Sophists, 115; debt to Plato, 159; on Plato,
163; chapters on, 172 _sqq._; his fresh contributions to Academic
philosophy, 173; two classes of lectures, 175; library, _ib._;
predominance of, 176; style, 177; differences from Plato, 178
Art, a greater revealer than science, 66; relation of Love to, 137; a
mode of creation, 139
Asceticism, of Cynics, 128; of Plato, 168; of Epicurus, 225
Atarneus, residence of Aristotle, 174
Athens, visited by Parmenides and Zeno, 34, 42, 157; residence of
Anaxagoras, 52; centre of sophistry, 85; birthplace of Socrates, 103;
visited by Aristippus, 124; birthplace of Antisthenes, 129; and of
Plato, 134; dialogue in praise of, 137; residence of Aristotle, 173; of
Epicurus, 211
Atlantis, kingdom of, 153
Atomists, 52; revived theory of, 215
Atoms, constituents of nature, 76, 216; deviation of, 216
Beauty, one aspect of ideal, 110; relation to creative instinct, 139;
science of universal beauty, 141
Becoming, the fundamental principle, 16; passage from Being to, 36, 39
Beginning (_arche_), of Thales, 3; Aristotle's definition, 4;
difficulties of material theories of, 36l
Being, eternal being like a sphere, 32; passage from, to Becoming, 36,
39; a co-equal element with Nonentity, 75; analysis of, 159; and the
Other, 165
Body, realisation of soul, 27; a prison, 28; unthinkable except with
reference to space, 75; source of illusion, 164
Canonics, form of logic, 215
Cause, three causes, 110; equals essence, 167; first causes subject of
philosophy, 179; relation of, to potentiality, 185
Cave, of this life, 148, 166
Chaldaea, visited by Pythagoras, 22; by Democritus, 74
Change, how account for, 10, 35, 39, 75
Chaos, of the Atomists, 53; of Empedocles, 69; king in philosophy, 83;
life not a chaos, 105
Charmides, dialogue, 136
Christ, brings sword, 99; kingdom of, 149
Chrysippus, successor of Cleanthes, 229
Cicero, mistranslates Pythagoras, 28; criticises Epicurus, 212, 221;
exponent of New Academy, 242
Citium, birthplace of Zeno, 228
Clazomenae, birthplace of Anaxagoras, 52
Cleanthes, successor of Zeno, 229; hymn of, 236
Codrus, Plato descended from, 134; sacrifice of, 139
Colophon, birthplace of Xenophanes, 31
Commonplaces, function of, in sophistry, 84
Community of wives, 148; ideal community, 149 (and see _State_)
Contradiction, philosophy of, 65
Cosmogony, of Democritus, 77; of Plato, 150; of Aristotle, 200; of
Epicurus, 219; of the Stoics, 231
Cosmopolitanism, of Cyrenaics and Cynics, 128; of later systems, 242
Courage, treated of in _Laches_, 136
Cratylus, dialogue, 137
Creation, a great expiation, 73; in the soul, 139; working out of God's
image, 151; union of Essence and Matter, 167
Criterion, feeling the only, 127
Critias, dialogue, 153
Crito, dialogue, 136
Crux, in philosophy, 190
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