The History of Ancient Philosophy; Volume 4

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  • 26 augustus 2016
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: we shall have little more to do, on the 'whole, than to trace the diffusion of Grecian philosophy among the Romans, to exhibit its fluctuating fortunes, and to point out the modifications which the Roman character gave to it, without, at the same time, imparting to it any further development. The works of hy far the greater number of the writers who belong to this part of our history are lost; all we find concerning them are a few scattered notices; at times we have nothing more to adduce than bare names, or a few circumstances connected with their personal history. Of many individuals we know that they belonged to this or to that sect, merely from the circumstance of their having otherwise played an important part in the memorable history of their time. Even those whose philosophical writings have come down to us, have, for the most part, to thank chance for this favour, rather than any great influence that they exercised on the philosophy of their age, or for the importance which for other reasons may be ascribed to them as parts of Roman literature, or as treatises on the special sciences or morals, or as illustrating the history of their times. And yet we cannot pass them over entirely in silence, because they did, undoubtedly, contribute in some measure to the diffusion of philosophy, and in some degree determined the shape in which it has been transmitted to modern times, and in which it acquired an influence on special sciences, and on life itself. Moreover this portion of our subject falls naturally into many isolated details, since, as we formerly mentioned, the several schools were continued without exercising any vital influenceon each other. In this period the case was nearly as it was in the first age of Grecian philosophy, when also several schools were developed sid...

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