Glenn, History of Philosophy, 1929
History of Philosophy
A survey of the major philosophical systems from the pre-Socratics to the moderns — and the perennial questions they all attempted to answer.
Glenn, History of Philosophy
60 articlesIntroduction
Definition, importance, sources, method, and division of the History of Philosophy.
Part First Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Oriental Philosophy
Chapter 1 Philosophy of the Semites
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The Ancient Hebrews
The monotheism of the ancient Hebrews before and after the Babylonian Captivity.
The Chaldeans
The religious philosophy of the Babylonians and Assyrians and their primitive belief in El.
The Ancient Egyptians
Egyptian doctrine of God, the origin of things, the soul, and the after-life.
Chapter 2 Philosophy of the Aryans
Greek and Greco-Roman Philosophy
Chapter 1 Pre-Socratic Philosophy
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The Earlier Ionian School
Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes and the search for the primal world-stuff.
The Pythagorean School
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: number as the principle of order in the world.
The Eleatic School
Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno, and Melissus on the unity of being and the illusion of change.
The Later Ionian School
Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras: perpetual becoming, the four elements, and mind.
The Atomist School
Leucippus and Democritus: atoms, vacuoles, and mechanistic materialism.
The Sophist School
Protagoras, Gorgias, and the Sophists' turn from the world to the validity of knowledge.
Chapter 2 Socratic Philosophy
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Socrates and the Socratic Schools
Socrates against the Sophists, his method and ethics, and the Minor Socratic Schools.
Plato and the Academies
Plato's theory of ideas, his Logic, Physics, and Ethics, and the later Academies.
Aristotle and the Aristoteleans
Aristotle's Logic, Physics, Metaphysics, Psychology, and Ethics, and the Peripatetic School.
Chapter 3 Post-Aristotelean Philosophy
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The Stoic School
Zeno of Citium and the Stoics: materialistic pantheism and the ethics of life according to nature.
The Epicurean School
Epicurus: atomism revived, sensation as the whole of knowledge, and pleasure as the end.
The Skeptic School
The Pyrrhonian, Academian, and Neo-Pyrrhonian Skeptics.
The Eclectic School
Eclecticism: the doctrine that truth lies scattered among the several existing systems.
Chapter 4 Greco-Roman Philosophy
Greco-Oriental Philosophy
Chapter 1 Greco-Jewish Philosophy
Chapter 2 Neoplatonism
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The Alexandrian School
Plotinus and the Alexandrian Neoplatonists: emanation from The One and the return of the soul.
The Syrian School
Iamblichus, the multiplication of divinities, and the descent of Neoplatonism into theurgy.
The Athenian School
Proclus and the last stand of Neoplatonism against Christianity at Athens.
Part Second Philosophy of Christian Times
Patristic Philosophy
Chapter 1 Heretical Systems and the Apologists
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Gnosticism
The Gnostic systems: emanation, dualism, and the claim to a saving higher knowledge.
Manicheism
Manes and the Manichean dualism of two eternal principles of good and evil.
The Ante-Nicene Apologists
The Greek, Alexandrian, and African Apologists of the first three centuries.
Medieval Philosophy
Chapter 1 The Preparation for Scholastic Philosophy
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The Great Question of Philosophy in the Middle Ages
The barbarian invasions, the preservation of learning, and the problem of Universals.
The Carlovingian Schools and Their Masters
The Palace and monastic schools under Charlemagne, and Alcuin, Rhabanus Maurus, and Fredegis.
The First Medieval Philosophers
Erigena, Gerbert, and the masters of the schools with whom medieval philosophy proper begins.
Chapter 2 The Development of Scholastic Philosophy
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Realism and Anti-Realism
Roscelin, St. Anselm, William of Champeaux, and Odo of Tournai in the controversy on Universals.
Eclecticism, Mysticism, Pantheism; The Summarists
Eclectics, mystics, pantheists, and the Summarists of the twelfth century.
Arabian and Jewish Philosophy of the Period
Arabian and Jewish philosophers and their transmission of Aristotle to the West.
Chapter 3 The Perfection of Scholastic Philosophy
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The Causes Which Contributed to the Perfecting of Scholasticism in the Thirteenth Century
The recovery of Aristotle, the rise of the universities, and the Mendicant Orders.
The Great Philosophers of the Age of Perfection
William of Auvergne, Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure, Roger Bacon, Albert, Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, Scotus, and Lully.
Chapter 4 The Decline of Scholastic Philosophy
Chapter 5 Transition to Modern Philosophy
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The State of Scholastic Philosophy in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Thomism, Terminism, Scotism, and Suarez in the age of the Renaissance.
The Revival of Pagan Philosophies
Renaissance Platonists and Aristoteleans and the return to the ancient systems.
Naturalistic Philosophy of the Period
The Renaissance interest in Nature and the naturalistic philosophies of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Political Philosophy of the Period
Renaissance political philosophy and the recovery of the ancient legislators.
Modern Philosophy
Chapter 1 Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century
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Seventeenth Century Sensism or Empiricism
Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke.
Seventeenth Century Intellectualism
Descartes, Malebranche, and Spinoza.
Seventeenth Century Skepticism
How Cartesian methodic doubt passed into actual skepticism.
Seventeenth Century Scholasticism
The state of Scholastic philosophy in the seventeenth century.
Chapter 2 Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 3 Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Kant and His Successors
Kant's critical philosophy and the German Idealism of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.
Reactions Against Kantianism
Positivism and Materialism as reactions against Kant and the Idealists.
Other Recent Philosophical Movements
Spiritualistic philosophy, Traditionalism, and Ontologism.
Scholasticism in Our Times
The Neo-Scholastic revival and the restoration of the philosophy of St. Thomas.