The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
A. H. Armstrong
May 1967
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Surveys philosophy from the neo-Platonists to St Anselm, showing how Greek philosophy took the form in which it was known to its cultural inheritors and how they interpreted it.
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May 1967Hardback
9780521040549
726 pages
234 × 155 × 44 mm
1.267kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introductory A. H. Armstrong
- Part I. Greek Philosophy from Plato to Plotinus P. Merlan:
- 2. The old academy
- 3. Aristotle
- 4. The later academy and Platonism
- 5. The Pythagoreans
- 6. The Peripatos
- 7. The Stoa
- Part II. Philo and the beginnings of Christian thought Rev. H. Chadwick:
- 8. Philo
- 9. The beginning of Christian philosophy: Justin: the Gnostics
- 10. Clement of Alexandria
- 11. Origen
- Part III. Plotinus A. H. Armstrong:
- 12. Life: Plotinus and the religion of superstition of his time
- 13. Teaching and writing
- 14. Man and reality
- 15. The one and intellect
- 16. From intellect to matter: the return to the one
- Part IV. The Later Neoplatonists A. C. Lloyd:
- 17. Introduction to later neoplatonism
- 18. Porphyry and Iamblichus
- 19. Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism
- Part V. Marius Victorinus and Augustine R. A. Markus:
- 20. Marius victorinus
- 21. Augustine. Biographical introduction: Charistianity and philosophy
- 22. Augustine. Man: body and soul
- 23. Augustine. Reason and illumination
- 24. Augustine. Sense and imagination
- 25. Augustine. Human action: will and virtue
- 26. Augustine. God and nature
- 27. Augustine: man in history and society
- Part VI. The Greek Christian Platonist tradition from the Cappadocians to Maximus and Eriugena I. P. Sheldon-Williams:
- 28. Introduction: Greek Christian Platonism
- 29. The Cappadocians
- 30. The pseudo-Dionysius
- 31. The reaction against Proclus
- 32. St Maximus the Confessor
- 33. The Philosophy of Icons
- 34. Johannes Scottus Eriugena
- Part VII. Western Christian thought from Boethius to Anselm H. Liebeschütz:
- 35. Boethius and the legacy of antiquity
- 36. Development of thought in the Carolingian Empire
- 37. The debate on philosophical learning during the transition period (900–1080)
- 38. Anselm of Canterbury: the philosophical interpretation of faith
- Part VIII. Early Islamic philosophy R. Walter:
- 39. Introductory
- 40. Al-Farabi and his successors
- Select bibliography
- Additional notes and bibliography
- Index of ancient and medieval works referred to in the text
- General index
- Index of Greek terms.
