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.

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