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THE
GREEK PHILOSOPHERS
VOL. II.
BY
ALFRED WILLIAM BENN
Εὑρηκέναι μὲν οὖν τινὰς τῶν ἀρχαίων καὶ μακαρίων φιλοσόφωντὸ ἀληθὲς δεῖ νομίζειν· τίνες δὲ οἱ τυχόντες μάλιστα καὶ πῶς ἂνκαὶ ἡμῖν σύνεσις περὶ τούτων γένοιτο ἐπισκέψασθαι προσήκει
Plotinus
Quamquam ab his philosophiam et omnes ingenuas disciplinashabemus: sed tamen est aliquid quod nobis non liceat, liceat illis
Cicero
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.
LONDON
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1882
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THE STOICSpages 1-52
I. Why the systems of Plato and Aristotle failed to secure a hold on contemporarythought, 1—Fate of the schools which they founded, 2—Revival of earlierphilosophies and especially of naturalism, 3—Antisthenes and the Cynics, 4—Restorationof naturalism to its former dignity, 6.
II. Zeno and Crates, 7—Establishment of the Stoic school, 8—Cleanthes andChrysippus, 9—Encyclopaedic character of the Stoic teaching, 9—The greatplace which it gave to physical science, 10—Heracleitean reaction against thedualism of Aristotle, 11—Determinism and materialism of the Stoics, 12—Theirconcessions to the popular religion, 14.
III. The Stoic theory of cognition purely empirical, 15—Development offormal logic, 16—New importance attributed to judgment as distinguished fromconcepti