A Short History of Greek PhilosophyMarshall, J. (John)
Philosophy
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
Marshall, J. (John)
Philosophy, Ancient
Senses (or Sensation), channel for the eternal wisdom, 18; data of, no
measure of reality, 40; not source of ideas, 45; untrustworthy, 49;
necessary to truth, 56; no test of truth, 60; relation to reason, 61;
based on composite character of body, 71; atomic theory of, 79; give no
absolute truth, 80; no distinction between, and thing or mind, 87;
reaction of moral theory on theory of sensation, 102; invalid as
against reason, 133; has rational elements conditioning, 151; universal
cannot belong to, 163; universals furthest removed from, 180; only
source of knowledge, 214; Epicurean theory of emission, 221; Stoic
theory, 230
Shakespeare, Plato compared to, 134
Sicily, birthplace of Empedocles, 58; connection with rise of
Sophistry, 84, 86, 92; connection of Plato with, 135
Sin, willing and unwilling, 121
Sinope, birthplace of Diogenes, 130
Sleep, cuts us off from eternal wisdom, 18
Socrates, 101; relation to Anaxagoras, 54; his doctrine in general,
100; marks a parting of ways, 103; warning 'voice' or 'daemon' of, 104;
philosophic midwifery, _ib._; irony, 105; not an expositor, 115;
relation to Sophists, _ib._; Aristippus student of, 124; criticises
Antisthenes, 129; Plato pupil of, 134; dialogue concerning, 136;
conversation of Diotima with, 137; in _Republic_, 146
Socratics, complete and incomplete, 103; incomplete, 125, 128
Solon, Plato descended from, 134; praised, 140
Sophists, 82; name first used by Protagoras, 85; influence of, on
politics, 88, 97; refuted by the arts, 111; relation to Socrates, 115;
Platonic dialogues on, 136; dialogue so named, 159
Soul of all things, 6; a fiery exhalation, 18; God soul of the world,
27; soul realised in body, _ib._; soul double, 28; triple, 28, 169;
life of soul a harmony, 29; composed of finest atoms, 78; even that of
universe, 80; loss of one's soul, 150; world-soul the first creation,
151; divisions of, 169; an entelechy, 203; definition of, 204; _v._
body, 205; Epicurean theory of, 220
Space, existence prior to, 37, 167; unthinkable except with reference
to body, 75
Sparta, ideas from, in _Republic_, 148; influence on Plato's Laws, 160
Species, has more of existence than genus, 183
Speusippus, successor of Plato, 172
Stagira, birthplace of Aristotle, 172
State, Justice writ large in, 147; classes in, 169; an entelechy, 196
Statesman (or Politicus), dialogue, 159
Stoicism, Semitic element in, 228; origin of name, 229
Strife, original of things, 17; one of two principles, 38, 63
Substance defined, 203
Sulla, brought Aristotle's library to Rome, 176
Summum bonum, what? 156; relation of man's perfection, 168; philosophy
search for, 229
Symposium, dialogue, 137
Tabula rasa, Stoic theory of, 231
Tarsus, birthplace of St. Paul and (possibly) of Chrysippus, 229
Temperance, treated of in _Charmides_, 136; fairest sort of wisdom, 139
Thales, 2
Theaetetus, quoted from, 89; dialogue, 159
Theophrastus, successor of Aristotle, 175
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