Book I.
Chapter XVII.
So far, then, we think we have sufficiently adduced (the opinions of) these; wherefore, inasmuch as we have adequately gone in review through the tenets of physical speculators, it seems to remain that we now turn to Socrates and Plato, who gave especial preference to moral philosophy.
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- The Refutation of All Heresies.
- Book I.
- Contents.
- Chapter I.--Thales; His Physics and Theology; Founder of Greek Astronomy.
- Chapter II.--Pythagoras; His Cosmogony; Rules of His Sect; Discoverer of Physiognomy; His Philosophy of Numbers; His System of the Transmigration of Souls; Zaratas on Demons; Why Pythagoras Forbade the Eating of Beans; The Mode of Living Adopted by His Disciples.
- Chapter III.--Empedocles; His Twofold Cause; Tenet of Transmigration.
- Chapter IV.--Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other Systems.
- Chapter V.
- Chapter VI.--Anaximander; His Theory of the Infinite; His Astronomic Opinions; His Physics.
- Chapter VII.--Anaximenes; His System of "An Infinite Air;" His Views of Astronomy and Natural Phenomena.
- Chapter VIII.--Anaxagoras; His Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; His Cosmogony and Astronomy.
- Chapter IX.--Archelaus; System Akin to that of Anaxagoras; His Origin of the Earth and of Animals; Other Systems.
- Chapter X.
- Chapter XI.--Parmenides; His Theory of "Unity;" His Eschatology.
- Chapter XII.--Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.
- Chapter XIII.--Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony.
- Chapter XIV.--Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes in a Flood.
- Chapter XV.--Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity.
- Chapter XVI.--Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology.
- Chapter XVII.
- Chapter XVIII.--Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato.
- Chapter XIX.--Plato; Threefold Classification of Principles; His Idea of God; Different Opinions Regarding His Theology and Psychology; His Eschatology and System of Metempsychosis; His Ethical Doctrines; Notions on the Free-Will Question.
- Chapter XX.--Aristotle; Duality of Principles; His Categories; His Psychology; His Ethical Doctrines; Origin of the Epithet "Peripatetic."
- Chapter XXI.--The Stoics; Their Superiority in Logic; Fatalists; Their Doctrine of Conflagrations.
- Chapter XXII.--Epicurus; Adopts the Democritic Atomism; Denial of Divine Providence; The Principle of His Ethical System.
- Chapter XXIII.--The Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them.
- Chapter XXIV.--The Brachmans; Their Mode of Life; Ideas of Deity; Different Sorts Of; Their Ethical Notions.
- Chapter XXV.--The Druids; Progenitors of Their System.
- Chapter XXVI.--Hesiod; The Nine Muses; The Hesiodic Cosmogony; The Ancient Speculators, Materialists; Derivative Character of the Heresies from Heathen Philosophy.
- Book IV.
- Book V.
- Book VI.
- Book VII.
- Book VIII.
- Book IX.
- Book X.
- Book I.