LECTURES

ON THE

HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

Cambridge:

Printed at the University Press,

FOR MACMILLAN & Co.

London: BELL AND DALDY.

Oxford: J. H. AND JAMES PARKER.

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ON THE

HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY.

3 by

BY

WILLIAM ARCHER BUTLER, M.A.

=

LATE PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

EDITED

From the Author's MSS. with Notes,

BY

WILLIAM HEPWORTH THOMPSON, M.A.

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE,

AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF CAMBRIDGE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. IL

Cambridge:

MACMILLAN AND Co.

MDCCCLVI.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

SECOND SERIES, continued.

LECTURE IV. On the Life and Writings of Plato

LECTURE V. On the Platonic Dialogues

LECTURE VI.

LECTURE VII. On the Dialectic of Plato. The Theatetus

The Dialectic of Plato continued.

On the Philosophy of Plato as a whole

LECTURE VIII.

The

LECTURE I. On the Physics of Plato. The Timæus

158

LECTURE II. The Physics of Plato continued

187

logy of Plato.

LECTURE III. The same subject continued.

LECTURE IV. The Psychology of Plato continued.

LECTURE V. On the Ethics of Plato

The Psycho-

216

240

265

LECTURE VI.

The Ethics of Plato continued

289

FOURTH SERIES.

LECTURE I. On the Successors of Plato. The Academy