Tradition
Ancient philosophy
Overview
This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history (c. 600 CE).
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It begins to flow again under new conditions, at first confined between high and narrow banks, but finally spreading over the continent of Europe. It is and is not the same with ancient philosophy. There is a great deal in modern philosophy which is inspired by ancient. There is much in ancient philosophy which was 'born out of due time; and before men were capable of understanding it. To the fathers of modern…
Plato, Meno
Names Ancient philosophy several times; the author is tied to Ancient philosophy in the knowledge graph.
4. Joh. Gottlieb Buhle: _Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie und einer kritischen Literatur derselben_, Göttingen, 1796 to 1804, eight parts, 8. Ancient philosophy is treated with disproportionate brevity; the further Buhle went on, the more particular he became. He has many good summaries of rare works, as for instance those of Giordano Bruno, which were in the Göttingen Library. 5. Wilh. Gottl. Tennemann’s…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Ancient philosophy is; names Ancient philosophy.
But in the universities of Europe, where philosophy was taught only as subservient to theology, it was natural to dwell longer upon these two chapters than upon any other of the science. They were gradually more and more extended, and were divided into many inferior chapters; till at last the doctrine of spirits, of which so little can be known, came to take up as much room in the system of philosophy as the…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Ancient philosophy is; names Ancient philosophy.
Philosophers who discussed Ancient philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Syrianus
- Panaetius
- Terence Irwin
- Xenocrates
- Ammonius Hermiae
- Ammonius Saccas
- Anaxagoras
- David Sedley
- Leucippus
- Mencius
- Sage (philosophy)
- Leo Strauss
- John McDowell
- Jonathan Barnes
- Nagarjuna
- David Bentley Hart
- Plutarch
- Socrates
- Anthony Kenny
- Roderick Chisholm
- Melissus of Samos
- Paul Feyerabend
- Strato of Lampsacus
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Egalitarianism
- Tirthankara
- Empiricism
- Epictetus
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Carneades
- Hui Shi
- Brahma Sutras
- Neopythagoreanism
- Pingala
- Anaximander
- Philo of Larissa
- Callicles
- Xuanxue
- Stilpo
- Dignāga
- Post-classical history
- Pyrrhonism
- Dualism in cosmology
- Philosophy
- Ambrose
- Western philosophy
- Heraclitus
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.