History of Philosophy

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Ancient Philosophy
    • Section A—Oriental Philosophy
      • Babylonia and Assyria
      • Egypt
      • China
      • India
      • Persia
    • Section B—Greek and Greco-Roman Philosophy
First Period—Pre-Socratic Philosophy
  • I. Earlier Ionian School: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes
  • II. The Pythagorean School
  • III. The Eleatic School: Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus
  • IV. Later Ionian Philosophers: Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras
  • V. The Atomists: Leucippus, Democritus
  • VI. The Sophists: Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias, Prodicus
Second Period—Socrates and the Socratic Schools
  • VII. Socrates
  • VIII. The Imperfectly Socratic Schools: The Megarian School, The Elean School, The Cynics, The Hedonists
  • IX. Plato
  • X. The Platonic Schools: Old, Middle, and New Academies
  • XI. Aristotle
  • XII. The Peripatetic School
Third Period—Post-Aristotelian Philosophy
  • XIII. The Stoics
  • XIV. The Epicureans
  • XV. The Sceptics: Pyrrho, The Middle Academy, The Later Sceptics
  • XVI. The Eclectics
  • XVII. The Scientific Movement
  • XVIII. Philosophy of the Romans: Cicero
Character of Greek Philosophy
  • Section C—Greco-Oriental Philosophy
  • XIX. Greco-Jewish Philosophy: Aristobulus, Philo
  • XX. Neo-Pythagoreanism and Neo-Platonism
  • Part II: Philosophy of the Christian Era
  • Introduction
  • Section A—Patristic Philosophy
  • XXI. Heretical Systems: Gnosticism, Manicheism
  • XXII. Ante-Nicene Fathers: Clement, Origen
  • XXIII. Post-Nicene Fathers: Pseudo-Dionysius, St. John of Damascus, St. Augustine
  • Section B—Scholastic Philosophy
First Period of Scholasticism: Erigena to Roscelin
  • XXIV. First Masters of the Schools: Alcuin, Fredegis, Rhabanus Maurus
  • XXV. John Scotus Erigena
  • XXVI. Gerbert
  • XXVII. The School of Auxerre: Eric, Remi, Author of Glosses
Second Period of Scholasticism: Roscelin to Alexander of Hales
  • XXVIII. Predecessors of Roscelin
  • XXIX. Roscelin
  • XXX. St. Anselm
  • XXXI. William of Champeaux, The Indifferentists: Otto of Tournai, Adelard of Bath, Walter of Mortagne
  • XXXII. Abelard
  • XXXIII. The School of Chartres: Bernard and Theodoric of Chartres, William of Conches, Gilbert de la Porrée
  • XXXIV. Eclectics: John of Salisbury, Peter the Lombard, Alanus of Lille, Gerard of Cremona
  • XXXV. The Mystic School: St. Bernard; Hugh, Richard, and Walter, of St. Victor
  • XXXVI. The Pantheistic School: Bernard of Tours, Amaury of Bène, David of Dinant
Byzantine, Arabian, and Jewish Philosophy
  • Third Period of Scholasticism: Alexander of Hales to Ockam
  • XXXVII. Predecessors of St. Thomas: Simon of Tournai, Alexander Neckam, Alfred Sereshel, William of Auvergne, Alexander of Hales, John de la Rochelle, St. Bonaventure, Roger Bacon, Albert the Great
  • XXXVIII. St. Thomas of Aquin
  • XXXIX. Thomists and Anti-Thomists
  • XL. Henry of Ghent
  • XLI. John Duns Scotus
  • XLII. Averroism in the Schools: Siger of Brabant, Boetius the Dacian, Bernier of Nivelles, Raymond Lully
Fourth Period of Scholasticism: Birth of Ockam to taking of Constantinople
  • XLIII. Predecessors of Ockam: Durandus, Aureolus
  • XLIV. William of Ockam
  • XLV. Followers and Opponents of Ockam: John Buridan, Peter d'Ailly, Raymond of Sabunde, etc.
  • XLVI. The Mystic School: Orthodox Mystics, Heterodox Mystics
  • XLVII. Nicholas of Autrecourt
Character of Scholastic Philosophy
  • Section C—Modern Philosophy
First Period—Transition from Scholastic to Modern Philosophy
  • XLVIII. Scholastics of the Transition Period: Cajetan, Suarez, etc.
  • XLIX. The Humanists: Pletho, Bessarion, Valla, etc.
  • L. Italian Philosophy of Nature: Cardano, Telesio, Bruno, Campanella
  • LI. The Scientific Movement: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, etc.
  • LII. Protestant Mysticism: Luther, Zwingli, Böhme, etc.
  • LIII. Systems of Political Philosophy: Machiavelli, More, Bodin, Hobbes
Second Period—From Descartes to Kant
  • LIV. Descartes
  • LV. Cartesianism: Pascal, Geulinex, Malebranche
  • LVI. Spinoza
  • LVII. English Empiricism: Locke, Newton, The Deistic Controversy
  • LVIII. British Moralists
  • LIX. French Empiricism
  • LX. The Idealistic Movement: Leibniz, Berkeley
  • LXI. Pan-Phenomenalism—Hume
  • LXII. German Illumination—Transition to Kant
Third Period—From Kant to our Own Time
  • LXIII. German Philosophy: Kant
  • LXIV. German Philosophy (continued): The Kantians, The Romantic Movement, Fichte, Schelling
  • LXV. German Philosophy (continued): Hegel, The Hegelians
  • LXVI. German Philosophy (continued): The Reaction against Hegel; Herbart, Schopenhauer
  • LXVII. The Scottish School: Reid, Brown, Stewart, etc.
  • LXVIII. French Philosophy: The Traditionalists, The Eclectics, The Positivists, The Sociologists
  • LXIX. English Philosophy: The Association School, Utilitarianism, Evolution, Idealism
  • LXX. Italian Philosophy: Vico, Galuppi, Rosmini, Gioberti, etc.
  • LXXI. American Philosophy: Edwards, McCosh, Brownson, etc.
  • LXXII. Catholic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century: The Neo-Scholastic Movement
  • LXXIII. Contemporary Philosophy in Germany, France, England, Italy, America
  • LXXIV. Conclusion
  • Index