A Short History of Greek PhilosophyMarshall, J. (John)
Philosophy
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
Marshall, J. (John)
Philosophy, Ancient
Plato, criticism of Protagoras, 89; a _complete_ Socratic, 103: took
refuge with Euclides, 132, 134; compared to Shakespeare, 134; as
psychologist, 155; central doctrines of, 155; dogma impossible, 162;
Aristotle on, 163; relation to Heraclitus, _ib._; and to the Eleatics,
165; relation of Aristotle to, 178, 181; his mistake as to universals,
182
Pleasure, end of life, 126; contempt of, 131; reason gives law to, 149;
is it chief good? 156; Epicurean theory of, 222; moral function of, 238
Politics, relation to philosophy, 82, 97; influence of sophistry upon,
88
Politicus, see _Statesman_
Potentiality (Dynamic idea), how used by Aristotle, 185; of feeling,
195; equals matter, 203
Practicality, _v._ Idealism, 4
Predication, Epicurus' view of, 215
Propositions, _v._ Things, 189
Protagoras, 85; Plato's criticism of, 89; dialogue, 136
Protoplasm, explains nothing, 37
Punishment, Sophistic theory of, 88
Pyrrho, founder of Scepticism, 211
Pythagoras, 23
Quinta Essentia, origin of, 202
Quixote, the world admires, 227
Realisation (Actuality), correlative of potentiality, 185; relation to
Plato's Recollection, 188; chief good, 194
Reality, standard of, 40, 51; distinction between, and appearance,
abolished, 83, 87; no necessary relation between thought and reality,
94; the only reality appetite, 96; thoughts of God the only reality,
164; approximations to, 165; ideal can never wholly fit, 239
Reason, function of, 37, 56; corrector of the senses, 61; governs
evolution, 70; worse made to appear better, 84; realises itself through
individuals, 114; gives law to pleasure, 149, 156; man possesses, 191;
actual and latent, 192; partly obedient, partly contemplative, 194; an
element in Habit, 195; an impersonal ruler, 196
Recollection (or Reminiscence), departure and renewal of knowledge,
138; doctrine of, in Plato, 142; Platonic criticism of, 154; nature of,
165; relation of Aristotle's theory to, 188
Reminiscence, see _Recollection_
Republic, dialogue, 146; relation of, to Aristotle's doctrine, 192
Revelation, how criticise? 158
Right, Might without, is weak, 147
Samos, birthplace of Pythagoras, 23; of Melissus, 46; of Epicurus, 211
Scepticism, its isolating influence, 94; destroys not appetite, but
moral restraint, 95; represented birth of new conditions, 98; phase of
decay in distinctively Greek life, 211
Science, philosophy different from, 9; happy guesses in, 152;
different kinds of, 180; can never exhaust object, 188
Scrip and staff, emblems of Cynics, 130
Semitic elements in later Greek philosophy, 228
Seneca, on Epicurus, 225; exponent of Roman Stoicism, 242
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