The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy

This book surveys philosophy from the neo-Platonists to St Anselm.

A. H. Armstrong (Edited by)

9780521040549, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 April 1967

726 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 4.4 cm, 1.267 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 [HPCB], Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]