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Lectures on the History of Philosophy 1: Greek Philosophy to Plato
 0803272715, 0803272731, 0803272723, 9780803272712

Table of contents :
Lectures on the History of Philosophy......Page 2
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
1— The Historicist Context......Page 9
2— The Question of Method......Page 14
3— The History of Philosophy in the System......Page 16
4— Logical Order, Temporal Order......Page 20
5— Philosophy as the History of Philosophy......Page 23
6— Critical Conclusion......Page 26
7— History of the Text......Page 29
Notes......Page 32
INAUGURAL ADDRESS......Page 39
PREFATORY NOTE......Page 42
INTRODUCTION......Page 45
A— The Notion of the History of Philosophy......Page 51
1— Common Ideas Regarding the History of Philosophy......Page 54
a— The History of Philosophy as an Accumulation of Opinions......Page 55
b— Proof of the Futility of Philosophical Knowledge Obtained through the History of Philosophy Itsel.........Page 59
c— Explanatory Remarks on the Diversity in Philosophies......Page 61
2— Explanatory Remarks Upon the Definition of the History of Philosophy......Page 63
a— The Notion of Development......Page 64
b— The Notion of the Concrete......Page 67
c— Philosophy as the Apprehension of the Development of the Concrete......Page 71
3— Results Obtained with Respect to the Notion of the History of Philosophy......Page 73
a— The Development in Time of the Various Philosophies......Page 76
b— The Application of the Foregoing to the Treatment of Philosophy......Page 80
c— Further Comparison between the History of Philosophy and Philosophy Itself......Page 83
B— The Relation of Philosophy to Other Departments of Knowledge......Page 93
a— Outward and Historical Conditions Imposed Upon Philosophy......Page 94
b— The Commencement in History of an Intellectual Necessity for Philosophy......Page 95
c— Philosophy as the Thought of Its Time......Page 97
2— Separation of Philosophy from other Allied Departments of Knowledge......Page 99
a— Relation of Philosophy to Scientific Knowledge......Page 100
b— Relation of Philosophy to Religion......Page 105
a— Difference between Philosophy and Religion......Page 108
[beta]— The Religious Element to be Excluded from the Content of the History of Philosophy......Page 125
[gamma]— Particular Theories Found in Religion......Page 135
c— Philosophy Proper Distinguished from Popular Philosophy......Page 136
a— Freedom of Thought as a First Condition......Page 138
b— Separation of the East and Its Philosophy......Page 140
c— Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece......Page 143
1— Division of the History of Philosophy......Page 145
2— Sources of the History of Philosophy......Page 154
3— Method of Treatment Adopted in this History of Philosophy......Page 158
ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY......Page 161
A— Chinese Philosophy......Page 163
B— Indian Philosophy......Page 169
Introduction......Page 192
SECTION ONE— FIRST PERIOD, FROM THALES TO ARISTOTLE......Page 208
Chapter I— Period I.—Division I.—Thales to Anaxagoras......Page 209
1— Thales......Page 214
2— Anaximander......Page 228
3— Anaximenes......Page 232
B— Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans......Page 237
C— The Eleatic School......Page 282
1— Xenophanes......Page 284
2— Parmenides......Page 292
3— Melissus......Page 300
4— Zeno......Page 304
D— Heraclitus......Page 321
E— Empedocles, Leucippus and Democritus......Page 341
1— Leucippus and Democritus......Page 342
2— Empedocles......Page 353
F— Anaxagoras......Page 362
Chapter II— First Period, Second Division: From the Sophists to the Socratics......Page 393
A— The Sophists......Page 395
1— Protagoras......Page 415
2— Gorgias......Page 421
B— Socrates......Page 427
C— The Socratics......Page 491
1— The Megarics......Page 497
a— Euclides......Page 498
b— Eubulides......Page 499
c— Stilpo......Page 507
2— The Cyrenaic School......Page 512
a— Aristippus......Page 513
b— Theodorus......Page 518
c— Hegesias......Page 520
d— Anniceris......Page 521
3— The Cynic School......Page 522
a— Antisthenes......Page 524
b— Diogenes......Page 527
c— Later Cynics......Page 529

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