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The Cambridge history of later Greek and early medieval philosophy / edited by A.H. Armstrong.

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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.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge Core)
Other Authors: Armstrong, A. H. (Arthur Hilary)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cambridge University Press, 1967.
Series:Cambridge histories online.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Philosophy, Ancient
Philosophy, Medieval
Table of Contents:
  • 50500 Introductory / A.H. Armstrong
  • Part 1 GREEK PHILOSOPHY FROM PLATO TO PLOTINUS / P. Merlan
  • The Old Academy
  • Aristotle
  • The Later Academy and Platonism
  • The Pythagoreans
  • The Peripatos
  • The Stoa
  • Part II PHILO AND THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT / H. Chadwick
  • Philo
  • The beginning of Christian philosophy: Justin: the Gnostics
  • Clement of Alexandria
  • Origen
  • Part III PLOTINUS / A.H. Armstrong
  • Life: Plotinus and the religion and superstition of his time
  • Teaching and writing
  • Man and reality
  • The One and Intellect
  • From Intellect to matter: the return to the One / A.H. Armstrong
  • Part IV THE LATER NEOPLATONISTS / A.C. Lloyd
  • Introduction to later Neoplatonism
  • Porphyry and Iamblichus
  • Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism
  • Part V MARIUS VICTORINUS AND AUGUSTINE / R.A. Markus
  • Marius Victorinus
  • Augustine. Biographical introduction: Christianity and philosophy
  • Augustine. Man: body and soul
  • Augustine. Reason and illumination
  • Augustine. Sense and imagination
  • Augustine. Human action: will and virtue
  • Augustine. God and nature
  • Augustine. Man in history and society
  • Part VI THE GREEK CHRISTIAN PLATONIST TRADITION FROM THE CAPPADOCIANS TO MAXIMUS AND ERIUGENA / I.P. Sheldon-Williams
  • Introduction: Greek Christian Platonism
  • The Cappadocians
  • The pseudo-Dionysius
  • The reaction against Proclus
  • St Maximus the Confessor
  • The Philosophy of Icons
  • Johannes Scottus Eriugena
  • Part VII WESTERN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT FROM BOETHIUS TO ANSELM / H. Liebeschotz
  • Boethius and the legacy of antiquity
  • Development of thought in the Carolingian Empire
  • The debate on philosophical learning during the transition period (900-1080)
  • Anselm of Canterbury: the philosophical interpretation of faith
  • Part VIII EARLY ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY / R. Walzer
  • Introductory
  • Al-Fārābī and his successors.

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