Containing a rapid Review of the Religious and Philosophical Opinions of the Oriental Nations, and of the first periods of Gre- cian Civilization. Hindostan. Thibet. China. The Persians. Chaldæans. The Egyptians. The Hebrews. The Phoenicians. First Civilization of the Greeks; their Mythical and Poetical Traditions. Their Practical and Gnomical Wisdom PART THE FIRST. FIRST PERIOD. (GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY.) From Thales to John of Damascus, i. e. from 600 B.C. to the end of the VIIIth Century. .... 1. Speculations of the Ancient Ionians 2. Speculations of the Pythagoreans 3. Speculations of the Eleatic School CHAPTER II. From Socrates to the end of the Contest between the Porch and the Academy (Second Epoch of Greek Philosophy) 85 5. New Pythagoreans 6. Neo-Platonists 143 CHAPTER III. Philosophy among the Romans; and Neo-Platonism to the time of John of Damascus (from 60 B.C. to the end of the VIIIth Century after Christ). Propagation of Grecian Philosophy. 147 10. Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus 11. Patristic Philosophy. Christian Eclectics PART THE SECOND.-SECOND PERIOD.-The Middle Ages. 3. Third Period. From Alexander of Hales to Occam 4. Fourth Period. From Occam to the end of the XVth Century 243 PART THE THIRD. THIRD PERIOD. (DECLINE OF THE MODERN PHILOSOPHY. From the XVIIth to the end of the .... 14. Eschenmayer, Wagner, Krause 15. Hegel 16. The Hegelian School. Strauss, Feuerbach, &c. 18. Phrenology-Gall and Spurzheim Modern English Philosophy Modern French Philosophy. 1. De Maistre, Victor Cousin, Jouffroy, &c. .... A MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. SECTION I. THE history of philosophy, if treated conformably with the end in view, implies an enquiry regarding the conception of the science, coupling with it a view of its contents, form, and end; and also of its scope, method, value, and the various modes in which it may be handled. These objects, together with the history and literature of the history of philosophy, combined with some preliminary remarks on the progress of the philosophizing reason, afford the contents of a general introduction to the history of philosophy. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. CHARACTER, EXTENT, METHOD, IMPORTANCE, DIVISION, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY* OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. I. Character of the History of Philosophy. + CH. LEONH. REINHOLD, On the Character of the History of Philo. sophy, in the Collection of Fülleborn; Fasc. I. (12 fasc. Jena, 1791-9). GEO. FRED. DAN. GOESS, Essay on the Character of the History of Philosophy, and on the System of Thales, Erlangen, 1794, 8vo., with a sketch of the proper limits of the History of Philosophy, Leips. 1798, Svo. * The titles of the German and French works are in most instances given in English, although no translation may have been published. The reader will be governed as to whether the works are English or Foreign by the places where they are printed. B |