| Description |
xv, 393 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the authorized English translation of the second German edition." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-388). |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTION --- 1. Significance of ancient philosophy to European civilization -- 2. Division of ancient philosophy -- 3. Historical methods -- 4-6. Sources and developments of ancient philosophy --- A. GREEK PHILOSOPHY. Introduction: The preliminary conditions of philosophy in the Greek intellectual life of the seventh and sixth centuries b. c 16-292. 7. Geographical survey -- 8. Social and political relations -- 9. The period of ethical reflection : the Seven Wise Men -- 10. Practical and special learning -- 11. Religious ideas -- 12. The reformation by Pythagoras -- 13. The first problems of science -- I. The Milesian Nature Philosophy. 14. Thales -- 15. Anaximander -- 16. Anaximenes -- II. The Metaphysical Conflict. Heracleitus and the Eleatics. 17. Xenophanes -- 18. Heracleitus -- 19. Parmenides -- 20. Zeno and Melissus -- III. Efforts toward Reconciliation. 21. Empedocles -- 22. Anaxagoras -- 23. The beginnings of Atomism : Leucippus -- 24. The Pythagoreans -- IV. The Greek Enlightenment. The Sophists and Socrates. 25. Eclecticism and special research -- 26. The Sophists -- 27. Socrates -- 28. The Megarian and Elean-Eretrian Schools -- 29. The Cynic School -- 30. The Cyrenaic School -- V. Materialism and Idealism. Democritus and Plato. 31. The life and writings of Democritus -- 32. The theoretic philosophy of Democritus -- 33. The practical philosophy of Democritus -- 34. The life and writings of Plato -- 35. The theory of Ideas of Plato -- 36. The ethics of Plato -- 37. The nature philosophy of Plato -- VI. Aristotle. 38. The Older Academy -- 39. The life and writings of Aristotle -- 40. The logic of Aristotle -- 41. The metaphysics of Aristotle -- 42. The physics of Aristotle -- 43. The ethics and poetics of Aristotle --- B. HELLENIC-ROMAN PHILOSOPHY . 44. Introduction -- I. The Controversies of the Schools. 45. The Peripatetics -- 46. The Stoics -- 47. The Epicureans -- II. Skepticism and Syncretism. 48. The Skeptics -- 49. Eclecticism -- 50. Mystic Platonism -- III. Patristics. 51. The Apologists -- 52. The Gnostics and their opponents -- 53. The Alexandrian School of Catechists: Origen -- IV. Neo-Platonism. 54. The Alexandrian School : Plotinus -- 55. The Syrian School : Jamblichus -- 56. The Athenian School : Proclus. |
| Summary |
"Scientific interest in ancient, especially in Greek, philosophy, is not confined to the value that it possesses as a peculiar subject for historical research and for the study of the growth of civilization. But it is also equally concerned in the permanent significance that the content of ancient thought possesses by reason of its place in the development of the intellectual life of Europe. The emphasis falls primarily upon the lifting of mere knowing to the plane of systematic knowledge, or science. Not content with his storing of practical facts, and with his fantastic speculations born of his religious needs, the Greek sought knowledge for its own sake. Knowledge, like art, was developed as an independent function from its involvement in the other activities of civilization. So, first and foremost, the history of ancient philosophy is an insight into the origin of European science in general." -- from Introduction (p.1). |
| Language |
Translated from German. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient -- History.
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| Added Author |
Cushman, Herbert Ernest, 1865-1944, Trans.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Windelband, W. (Wilhelm), 1848-1915. History of ancient philosophy. [New York] Dover Publications [1956] (OCoLC)645049498 |
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