| | Greek and Greco-Roman Philosophy |
| | Greco-Oriental Philosophy |
| | Chapter XIX : Greco-Jewish Philosophy |
| | Chapter XX : Neo-Pythagoreanism and Neo-Platonism |
| | Philosophy of the Christian Era |
| | Chapter XXI : Heretical Systems |
| | Chapter XXII : Ante-Nicene Fathers |
| | Chapter XXIII : Post-Nicene Fathers |
| | First Period: Transition from Scholastic to Modern Philosophy |
| | Second Period: From Descartes to Kant |
| | Third Period: From Kant to Our Own Time |
| | by William Turner, S.T.D. |
| | The purpose of the writer in compiling this text-book has been so to set forth the succession of schools and systems of philosophy as to accord to Scholasticism a presentation in some degree adequate to its importance in the history of speculative thought. |
| | Of the text-books that are at present available for use in the lecture room, some dismiss the Scholastic period with a paragraph; others, while dealing with it more sympathetically, treat it from the point of view of German transcendentalism. The result is that even works which succeed in doing justice to the schoolmen are practically useless to students who are more familiar with the terminology of Scholasticism than with that of Hegelianism. |
| | The scope of the work has determined not only the general arrangement of the volume, but also the selection of material and of bibliographical references. Under the title "Sources," the student will find mention of the most recent publications and of one or two standard works which have heen selected as being most easy of access. Bibliography is rapidly becoming a distinct branch of study in the different departments of philosophy. Dr. Rand's Bibliography of Philosophy, which is to be published as the third volume of Baldwin's Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, will doubtless meet the demand as far as completeness is concerned, and will render unnecessary the attempt to furnish complete lists of sources in a text-book such as this is intended to be. It is, therefore, with a view to inculcate a proper idea of historical method rather than to supply a complete bibliography that a paragraph entitled "Sources" is prefixed to each chapter. |
| | Similarly, it is for the purpose of impressing on the student the importance of estimating the value of systems and schools of philosophy that, at the end of each chapter, suggestions for criticism are offered under the title "Historical Position." No one is more keenly alive than the author himself to the absurdity of regarding such criticisms as possessing more than a relative value. If they sometimes convey to the reader a sense of intended finality, allowance will perhaps be made for the impossibility of finding, within the limits of a text-book, space for a more ample discussion of questions which are far from being finally and incontrovertibly settled. |
| | The plan of the work precludes much claim to originality. Use has been made of primary sources wherever it was possible to do so. In dealing with Scholastic philosophy, especially, recourse has been had to the works of the schoolmen, experience having abundantly shown the danger of relying on secondary authorities for this period. The frequent mention, both in the text and in the notes, of Zeller's Philosophie der Griechen, of Stockl's Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie, of the Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters by the same author, of De Wulf's Histoire de la philosophie medievale, of Gonzalez' Historia de la filosofia, and of Falckenberg's and Hoffding's histories of modern philosophy, indicates the principal secondary sources which have been used, but does not represent the full extent of the writer's indebtedness to those works. In revising the manuscript and in reading the proofs use has been made of the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology edited by Professor J. M. Baldwin. |
| | The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to the Rev. J. M. Prendergast, S.J., of Holy Cross College, Worcester, to the Rev. J. M. Reardon of the St. Paul Seminary, and to the Rev. T. E. Judge for many helpful suggestions in the course of their revision of some of the proofs. He is, moreover, indebted in a special manner to the Rev. H. Moynihan, S.T.D., of the St. Paul Seminary, for careful and scholarly reading of all the proofs, and to Professor Frank Thilly, Ph.D., of the University of Missouri, whose valuable criticisms and suggestions have been the more appreciated because they come from one whose view point is so different from that of the writer. He gratefully . acknowledges also the care and accuracy of the proof readers of the Athenaeum Press. |
| | Greek and Greco-Roman Philosophy |
| | First Period: Pre-Socratic Philosophy |
| | Chapter I : Earlier Ionian School |
| | Chapter II : The Pythagorean School |
| | Chapter III : The Eleatic School |
| | Chapter IV : Later Ionian Philosophers |
| | Chapter VI : The Sophists |
| | Third Period: Post-Aristotelian Philosophy |
| | Chapter XIII : The Stoics |
| | Chapter XIV : The Epicureans |
| | Chapter XV : The Sceptics |
| | Chapter XVI : The Eclectics |
| | Chapter XVII : The Scientific Movement |
| | Chapter XVIII : Philosophy of the Romans |
| | Second Period: Socrates and the Socratic Schools |
| | Chapter VIII : The Imperfectly Socratic Schools |
| | Chapter X : The Platonic Schools |
| | Chapter XII : The Peripatetic School |
| | by William Turner, S.T.D. |
| | First Period of Scholasticism |
| | Chapter XXIV : First Masters of the Schools |
| | Chapter XXV : John Scotus Erigena |
| | Chapter XXVII : The School of Auxerre |
| | Second Period of Scholasticism |
| | Roscelin to Alexander of Hales (1050-1200) |
| | Chapter XXVIII : Predecessors of Roscelin |
| | Chapter XXXI : William of Champeaux, the Indifferentists, etc. |
| | Chapter XXXIII : The School of Chartres |
| | Chapter XXXIV : Eclectics |
| | Chapter XXXV : THe Mystic School |
| | Chapter XXXVI : The Pantheistic School |
| | Third Period of Scholasticism |
| | Alexander of Hales to Ockam (1200-1300) |
| | Chapter XXXVII : Predecessors of St. Thomas |
| | Chapter XXXVIII : St. Thomas of Aquin |
| | Chapter XXXIX : Thomists and Anti-Thomists |
| | Chapter XL : Henry of Ghent |
| | Chapter XLI : John Duns Scotus |
| | Chapter XLII : Averroism in the Schools |
| | Fourth Period of Scholasticism |
| | Birth of Ockam to taking of Constantinople (1300-1453) |
| | Chapter XLIII : Predecessors of Ockham: Durandus, Aureolus |
| | Chapter XLIV : William of Ockam |
| | Chapter XLV : Followers and Opponents of Ockam |
| | Chapter XLVI : The Mystic School |
| | Chapter XLVII : Nicholas of Autrecourt |
| | by William Turner, S.T.D. |
| | Third Period: From Kant to Our Own Time |
| | Chapter LXIII : German Philosophy: Kant |
| | Chapter LXIV : German Philosophy: The Kantians, The Romantic Movement, Fichte, Schelling |
| | Chapter LXV : German Philosophy: Hegel, the Hegelians |
| | Chapter LXVI : German Philosophy: The Reaction against Hegel; Herbart, Schopenhauer |
| | Chapter LXVII : The Scottish School |
| | Chapter LXVIII : French Philosophy |
| | Chapter LXIX : English Philosophy |
| | Chapter LXX : Italian Philosophy |
| | Chapter LXXI : American Philosophy |
| | Chapter LXXII : Catholic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century |
| | Chapter LXXIII : Contemporary Philosophy |
| | Chapter LXXIV : Conclusion |
| | by William Turner, S.T.D. |
| | Second Period: From Descartes to Kant |
| | Chapter LV : Cartesianism |
| | Chapter LVII : English Empiricism |
| | Chapter LVIII : British Moralists |
| | Chapter LIX : French Empiricism |
| | Chapter LX : The Idealistic Movement |
| | Chapter LXI : Pan-phenomenalism -- Hume |
| | Chapter LXII : German Illumination -- Transition to Kant |
| | by William Turner, S.T.D. |
| | First Period: Transition from Scholastic to Modern Philosophy |
| | Chapter XLVIII : Scholastics of the Transition Period |
| | Chapter XLIX : The Humanists |
| | Chapter L : Italian Philosophy of Nature |
| | Chapter LI : The Scientific Movement |
| | Chapter LII : Protestant Mysticism |
| | Chapter LIII : Systems of Political Philosophy |
| | by William Turner, S.T.D. |
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