A Short History of Greek PhilosophyMarshall, J. (John)
Philosophy
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
Marshall, J. (John)
Philosophy, Ancient
Moist or base element, 18
Monarchy, in politics and in philosophy, 82
Morality, a convention, 95, 126; traditional morality of Greece
required remodelling, 98; question as to origin solved by Socrates,
121; can never exhaust Subject, 188; an entelechy, 192; potential and
actual, 194
Motion, animal, how accounted for, 79
Multiplicity, see _Unity_
Music, of the spheres, 27; of seven planets, 151; function of, in
education, 29, 170
Myth, of Steeds, 144; of Judgment, 150; of Creation, 152; philosophers
fond of, 178
Names, approximations to reality, 165
Nature, treatises on, 16, 34, 46, 217; a reason in, 37; male and female
principles in, 38; Love motive force in, _ib._; the non-existent, 92;
'touch of nature,' 191; Aristotle's conception of, 199; violations of,
201; order of, 217; clearly immortal, 218; a life consistent with, 236
Necessity, creative power, 38, 63; how used by Democritus, 78;
Aristotle's conception of, 201
Neleus, family (owners of Aristotle's library), 175
Nicomachus, father of Aristotle, 172
Notions, Epicurus' view of, 215
Number, original of things, 24; relation of ideas to, 167
Obedience, through disobedience, 122
Obscure, epithet of Heraclitus, 15
Odd, _v._ Even, 24
Opinion, _v._ Knowledge, 33, 35
Oracle, answer of, respecting Socrates, 107; maxim engraved on, 113
Organism, idea of, in Aristotle, 185, 205
Organon, of Aristotle, 159
Origination, meaning of, 53, 62
Other, the 'Other' of Plato, 165
Pains, classification of, 131; converted into pleasures, 131, 227;
moral function of, 238
Pantheistic apathy, 20
Parmenides, 33; relation of Zeno to, 42; visited Athens, 157; dialogue,
_ib._
Particular, see _Universal_
Passion, part of soul, 28, 169
Paul, St., influence of Stoicism on, 228; relation of, to Greek
philosophy, 244
Pericles, friend of Anaxagoras, 52; and of Protagoras, 86
Peripatetics, origin of name, 174
Personality, absence of, in Greek thought, 40
Persuasion, only true wisdom, 88
Phaedo, quoted from, 54; dialogue, 136
Phaedrus, dialogue, 142
Phenomena, not source of abstract ideas, 15
Philebus, dialogue, 156
Philosophy, different from science, 9; does not forbid inconsistency,
64; a form of poesy or fiction, 66; at the basis of religion, art, and
morals, 67; great philosophies never die, 68; first systematically
divided by Democritus, 75; relation to politics, 82, 97; paradox of,
100; crisis of, _ib._; of nature and of moral, 101; a means of social
culture, 125; relation of Love to, 137; must rule on earth, 149; only
makes happy guesses in science, 152; origin of, 178; investigates first
causes, 179; crux in, 190; Epicurus' definition of, 214; a search for
chief good, 229
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