Dr Albert Stockl

Handbook of the History of Philosopy Part 1 Pre-Scholastic Philosophy Dr Albert Stockl

Translator's Preface. Author's Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Introduction. Part First. History of Ancient Philosophy. General View. Division. Section I. Philosophy of the East. Philosophy among the Chinese. Philosophy of India. Philosophy of Mimansa and Vedanta. The Sankhya and Yoga Philosophy. Philosophy of Nyaya and Vaiseshika. Religious Philosophy of the Medo-Persians. Philosophical Theories Embodied in the Religious Beliefs of Egypt and Western Asia. Section II. Philosophy of the Greeks. Outline and Division. First Period. Pre-Socratic Philosophy. Ionic Philosophy -- Philosophy of Nature. The Earlier Ionic Philosophers. Thales of Miletus. Anaximander, Anaximenes, Diogenes of Apollonia. Heraclitus of Ephesus Later Philosophers of Nature. Empedocles of Agrigentum. The Atomists. Leucippus and Democritus. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. Pythagorean Philosophy. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. The Eleatics. Xenophanes of Colophon. Parmenides of Elea. Zeno of Elea. Melissus of Samos. The Sophists. Second Period. Socratic Philosophy. Socrates. "Imperfectly Socratic" Philosophers. The Megaric and the Elian (Eretrian) Schools. The Cynics. The Cyrenaics. Plato. Plato's Life and Writings -- General Character of his Philosophy. Plato's Doctrine of Ideas and Theory of Knowledge. Physics of Plato. Theology, Cosmogony, and Psychology. Plato's Ethics and Political Philosophy. The Platonic School. Aristotle. Life and Writings of Aristotle. General Character of his Philosophy. Logic and Theory of Knowledge. Metaphysics. Physics and Psychology. Ethics and Political Philosophy. The Chief Peripatetics. Third Period. Decay of Greek Philosophy. Preliminary Remarks. The Stoics. Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus. General Remarks. Logic and Theory of Knowledge of the Stoics. Physics of the Stoics. Ethical System of the Stoics. Epicurean Philosophy. Canonic of Epicurus Epicurean Physics. Epicurean Ethics. Scepticism and Eclecticism. Section III. Graeco-Oriental Philosophy. General Character of This Philosophy. Philo the Jew. Neo-Pythagoreans, and Eclectic Platonists. Neo-Platonism. Introductory Remarks. Neo-Platonism in its Earliest Form. Plotinus. Syrian School of Neo-Platonism. Iamblichus and His Athenian School of Neo-Platonism. Proclus. Part Second. History of the Philosophy of the Christian Era. General View. -- Division. Patristic Philosophy. General View and Division. Gnosticism. Saturninus. Basilides. Valentinus and the Ophites. Carpocrates, Marcion, and Other Gnostics. Manicheism. Monarchianism. Arianism and Apollinarism Patristic Philosophy of the Ante-Nicene Period. Preliminary Remarks. The Anti-Gnostics and Anti-Monarchianists. The Beginning of Independent Speculation. Clement of Alexandria. Origen. Minutius Felix, Arnobius and Lactantius. Patristic Philosophy of the Post-Nicene Period. Gregory of Nyssa, Synesius, and Nemesius. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus Confessor, and John of Damascus. Latin Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers. Augustine. Life and Writings of Saint Augustine. Theory of Knowledge. Teaching Regarding God and Creation. Psychology. Ethics. Claudianis Mamertus, Boethius, Cassiodorus.