Contents

Historical Introduction. Grecian and Patristic Philosophies.

• Grecian Philosophy.

  • Chapter I. Pre-Socratic Philosophy.
    • 1. General View.
    • 2. First Group of Pre-Socratic Schools.
    • 3. Second Group of Pre-Socratic Schools.
    • 4. The Sophists.
  • Chapter II. Grecian Philosophy from Socrates to Aristotle.
    • 1. Socrates.
    • 2. Plato.
    • 3. Aristotle.
  • Chapter III. Grecian Philosophy from the Death of Aristotle to the Rise of the Neo-Platonic School.
    • 1. Preliminary Notions.
    • 2. The Philosophical Schools of the Third and Second Centuries B.c.
    • 3. Eclecticism.
    • 4. The Scepticism of the Neo-pyrrhonic School.
  • Chapter IV. Neo-Platonism and the Systems Which Led Up To It
    • 1. General Notions.
    • 2. The Precursors of Neo-platonism.
    • 3. Neo-platonism.

• Patristic Philosophy.

  • 1. General View.
  • 2. Patristic Philosophy During the First Three Centuries.
  • 3. Patristic Philosophy From the Fourth to the Seventh Century. St. Augustine.

Medieval Philosophy.

• Introductory Considerations.
  • 1. General Remarks.
  • 2. Division of Medieval Philosophy.
  • 3. Ancient and Modern Sources of A General Nature.
• First Period. Medieval Philosophy to the End of the Twelfth Century.
  • First Section: Western Philosophy
    • Chapter I. General View.
    • Chapter II. The Philosophy of the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Centuries.
      • I. -- Scholastic Philosophy.
        • 1. The Question of the Universals; Its Historical Development.
        • 2. St. Anselm.
      • II. -- Anti-Scholastic Philosophy.
      • III. -- Philosophy and Theological Controversies.
    • Chapter III. Philosophy in the Twelfth Century.
      • I. -- Scholasticism.
        • 1. Extreme Realism (First Half of Twelfth Century).
        • 2. Anti-realism.
        • 3. Peter Abelard and Gilbert De La Porrée.
        • 4. John of Salisbury and Alan of Lille.
      • II. -- The Theological Movement in the Twelfth Century Schools of Scholastic Theology.
        • 1. Schools of Scholastic Theology.
        • 2. Scholastic Mysticism.
      • III. -- The Non-Scholastic Philosophies of the Twelfth Century.
  • Second Section: Byzantine Philosophy
  • Third Section: Oriental Philosophy
• Second Period. Medieval Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century.
  • Chapter I. General View.
  • Chapter II. Philosophical Renaissance of the Thirteenth Century.
    • 1. The New Philosophical Revival in the West.
    • 2. The Rise of the Universities.
    • 3. The Mendicant Orders.
  • Chapter III. Scholastic Philosophy.
    • I. -- General Notions.
    • II. -- The Earlier Scholasticism: Pre-Thomistic Theories.
      • 1. The Precursors.
      • 2. Earliest Franciscan Schools. Alexander of Hales.
      • 3. St. Bonaventure.
      • 4. The Disciples of St. Bonaventure.
      • 5. The Dominican Masters and the Earlier Scholasticism.
    • III. -- The Peripateticism of Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas; The Scholastic Synthesis.
      • 1. Albert the Great.
      • 2. St. Thomas of Aquin and the Scholastc Synthesis.
        • I. Propaedeutic
        • II. Logic
        • III. Metaphysics and Theodicy
        • IV. General Physics
        • V. Psychology
        • VI. Moral Philosophy
        • VII. Esthetics
        • VIII. Conclusion
    • IV. -- The Conflict between Thomism and the Earlier Scholasticism.
      • 1. Adversaries of Thomism.
      • 2. Supporters of Thomism.
      • 3. Eclectics.
    • V. -- John Duns Scotus.
  • Chapter IV. Anti-Scholastic Systems of Philosophy
    • 1. Latin Averroïsm.
    • 2. Other Forms of Anti-Scholastic Philosophy.
  • Chapter V. Some Non-Scholastic Directions in Philosophy.
    • 1. Experimental Direction, Roger Bacon.
    • 2. Neo-Platonic Direction.
    • 3. Raymond Lully.
    • 4. Certain Other Directions in Philosophy.
• Third Period. Medieval Philosophy during the Fourteenth and First Half of the Fifteenth Centuries.
  • Chapter I. General Outline. Chapter II. Scholastic Philosophies.
    • I. -- General Outline.
    • II. -- The Terminist School.
      • 1. General Outline.
      • 2. William of Ockam and the Precursors of Terminism.
      • 3. The Ockamist or Terminist School
    • III. -- The Scotist School.
    • V. -- The Aegidian School.
    • VI. -- Orthodox Mysticism.
  • Chapter III. Anti-Scholastic Philosophies.
    • 1. Latin Averroism.
    • 2. Heterodox Mysticism.
    • 3. Other Forms of Anti-scholasticism.
  • Chapter IV. Some Non-Scholastic Lines of Philosophical Thought.
    • 1. Infiltrations of Averroïsm.
    • 2. Master Eckhart and German Mysticism.
    • 3. Raymond of Sabunde and Theosophy.
    • 4. Nicholas of Cusa.
• Fourth Period. Medieval Philosophy from the Middle of the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
  • Chapter I. General Outline.
  • Chapter II. Non-Scholastic Philosophies.
    • 1. General Notions.
    • 2. Humanism.
    • 3. Platonism.
    • 4. Aristotelianism.
    • 5. Stoicism and Atomism.
    • 6. Naturalism.
    • 7. The Philosophy of Natural and Social Right.
    • 8. Protestant Philosophy and Mysticism.
    • 9. Theism or the Philosophy of Religion.
    • 10. Scepticism.
  • Chapter III. Scholastic Philosophy.
    • 1. General Outline.
    • 2. The Thomist School
    • 3. Spanish Scholasticism.
    • 5. The Scotist School.
    • 7. The Misunderstanding Between Scholastics and Scientists in the Seventeenth Century.
• List of Articles
• Index