A Short History of Greek PhilosophyMarshall, J. (John)
Philosophy
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
Marshall, J. (John)
Philosophy, Ancient
God, soul of the world, 27; the Odd-Even, 26; the universe His
self-picturing, 26; God is one, 32; not a function of matter, 33;
atomic origin of idea of, 80; the law or ideal in the universe, 112;
Man the friend of God, 142; works out His image in creation, 151; God's
thought and God's working, 152; is Mind universal, 164; cause of union
in creation, 166; His visible images in Man and Nature, _ib._; cause
both of good and of knowledge, 166; thoughts of, eternally existing,
187; an entelechy, 188; Epicurean theory of, 221; Stoic theory of, 233
Golden age, 73
Gorgias, 92; Antisthenes pupil of, 129; dialogue, 137
Greek _v._ Modern difficulties, 158
Gymnastic, function of, 170
Habit, Aristotle's definition of, 195
Happiness, chief good, 193; reason standard of, 196
Harmony, the eternal, 19; soul a harmony, 29
Hecataeus, referred to by Herodotus, 2
Hegel, philosophic system of, 159
Heraclitus, 15; _v._ Democritus, 74; Plato student of, 134; relation of
Plato to, 163
Hercules, patron-god of Cynics, 130
Herodotus, notices Hecataeus, 2
Hesiod, praised, 139
Hippias, dialogue, 137
Homer, criticised by Heraclitus, 16; anthropomorphism of, 31; praised,
139
Horace, quoted, 125
Humanitarianism, began in scepticism, 99
Humanity, granted only to possessors of eternal truth, 145
Husk, symbol of evolution, 12
Idea, exists prior to sensation, 143; eternal in universe, 150;
rational element in sensation, 152; Platonic criticism of, 157;
universals are ideas of real existences, 163; things partake of, 164;
relation of, to Pythagorean 'Numbers,' 167; Aristotelian criticism of,
181; necessarily prior to sensation, 187
Ideal, struggle of old and new, 99; in the arts, 110; has three
aspects, Justice, Beauty, Utility, _ib._; great ideal in the universe,
112; can never wholly fit the real, 239
Idealism, _v._ Practicality, 4, 96; Parmenides founder of, 39; _v._
Realism, 51; _v._ Epicureanism, 216
Immortality, aspect of, to Greeks, 40; Parmenides pioneer for, 41;
_Phaedo_ dialogue on, 136; Love and immortality, 138; of soul, 150;
relation of doctrine to Platonic recollection, 154; faith as to, 155;
Man must put on, 168; Aristotle's view of, 207
Inconsistency, not forbidden in philosophy, 64
Individual, _v._ Universal, 99; relation of, to community, 147, 196;
reality of, 184; importance of, in later systems, 243
Individualism, in philosophy, 83, 85; not wholly bad, 98; required
reconciling with universalism, 100
Induction (see Deduction); Socrates inventor of, 106; Plato's
contributions to, 160; function of, in Aristotle, 184
Infinite or indefinite, origin of things, 8; function of, in
mathematics, 10; relation to definite, 24, 26, 165
Infinity, origin of idea of, 46
Intellect, division of soul, 28, 169
Ion, dialogue, 136
Irony, of Socrates, 105
Jowett, Prof., quoted, 39, 43, 89, 138, 142, 153, 158
Judgment, vision of, 150
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