Émile Faguet
Initiation into Philosophy
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664094421
Table of Contents
CHAPTER IX. ECLECTICS AND SCEPTICS
CHAPTER I. FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY TO THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER II. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER III. THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
CHAPTER IV. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER I. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER III. THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER IV. THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS OF THE
CHAPTER V. FRENCH PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER VII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: GERMANY
CHAPTER VIII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ENGLAND
CHAPTER IX. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: FRANCE
PREFACE
This volume, as indicated by the title, is designed to show the way to the beginner, to satisfy and more especially to excite his initial curiosity. It affords an adequate idea of the march of facts and of ideas. The reader is led, somewhat rapidly, from the remote origins to the most recent efforts of the human mind.
It should be a convenient repertory to which the mind may revert in order to see broadly the general opinion of an epoch—and what connected it with those that followed or preceded it. It aims above all at being a frame in which can conveniently be inscribed, in the course of further studies, new conceptions more detailed and more thoroughly examined.
It will have fulfilled its design should it incite to research and meditation, and if it prepares for them correctly.
E. FAGUET.
INITIATION INTO PHILOSOPHY
PART I. ANTIQUITY
CHAPTER I. BEFORE SOCRATES
Philosophical Interpreters of the Universe, of the Creation and Constitution of the World.
PHILOSOPHY.—The aim of philosophy is to seek the explanation of all things: the quest is for the first causes of everything, and also how all things are, and finally why, with what design, with a view to what, things are. That is why, taking "principle" in all the senses of the word, it has been called the science of first principles.
Philosophy has always existed. Religions—all religions—are philosophies. They