A Short History of Greek PhilosophyMarshall, J. (John)
Philosophy
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
Marshall, J. (John)
Philosophy, Ancient
Cynic, origin of name, 130; influence of school on Plato, 154; _v._
Epicurean, 226
Cyrene, seat of Cyrenaic school, 124; visited by Plato, 134; influence
of school on Plato, 154
Death, birth of the soul, 19
Deduction, _v._ Induction, 48; function of, in Aristotle, 184
Definitions, search for, by Socrates, 106; of no value, 132; rules for,
laid down by Plato, 156
Democritus, 74; relation of Epicurus to, 216
Demonstrative science, based on abstraction, 11
Desire, part of soul, 28, 169; thought without, gives no motive, 191;
distinctions among, 224
Destruction, meaning of, 53
Dialectic, Parmenides founder of, 39; Zeno inventor of, 42; Platonic
theory of, 164, 171
Dichotomy, invented by Zeno, 43
Difference (see _Essence_), all difference quantitative, 76;
conditioned by dissimilarity in atoms, 77
Dilemma, Melissus' use of, 46
Diogenes, pupil of Antisthenes, 130
Dionysius, elder and younger, connection of Plato with, 135
Diotima, conversation of, with Socrates, 137
Dry light, 19
Dualism, unthinkable, 32; in nature, 38; of Plato and Aristotle, 184
Dynamic, see _Potentiality_
Earth, principle in nature, 38
Education, preparation for heaven, 148; ideal, 149; true function of,
169; three stages, 170; an entelechy, 191
Egypt, visited by Pythagoras, 22; Democritus, 74; Plato, 135
Elea, seat of Eleatic school, 30; birthplace of Parmenides, 33
Eleatics, relation of Empedocles to, 62; of Democritus, 75; of Plato,
154, 165
Elements, the four, 62; in creation, 151; in body and in soul, 156
Empedocles, 58
Ends of Life, indifference as to, 96; importance in later Greek
philosophy, 125; Plato's view of, 168; Aristotle's, 193; Epicurean, 222
Entelechy, Life, 186, 190; God, 188; Thought, _ib._; Education, 191;
Morality, 193; State, 197; physical world, 199; Soul, 203
Ephesus, birthplace of Heraclitus, 15
Epicurus, 211; praises of, by Lucretius, 212; garden of, 213; relation
to Democritus, 216
Essence _v._ Difference, 48; equals Cause, 167
Euclides, 132
Euripides, friend of Anaxagoras, 52
Euthydemus, conversation with Socrates, 116; dialogue, 137
Euthyphro, dialogue, 136
Even, _v._ Odd, 24
Evil, origin of, 33; necessary on earth, 168; God cause of evil, but
hath none, 234
Evolution, Anaximander's conception of, 12; Xenophanes' theory of, 33;
relation of, to fundamental conception of Being, _ib._; view of
Empedocles, 70
Existence, an idea prior to Time and Space, 37; not given by
Experience, 45; four forms of, 166; philosophy treats of existence as
such, 181
Exoteric kind of lectures, 175
Female, see _Male_
Fire, original of things, 17; one of two principles, 38
Flux, of all things, 16; of life, 27, 73; sophistic theory of, 87
Form _v._ Matter, 25, 48; Aristotle's theory of, 203
Formulae, never adequate, 122
Freewill, problem of, 33; relation to law, 113; and overruling
providence, 155
Friendship, treated of in _Lysis_, 136
Genus, has less of existence than species, 183
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