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Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame.

A History of Western Philosophy by Ralph McInerny

Volume I

Foreword / Acknowledgements

Part I: Presocratic Philosophy
- Chapter I: Before Philosophy
  - A. The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry
  - B. The Theological Poets
  - C. Greek Primitive Religion
- Chapter II: The Ionians
  - A. Thales of Miletus
  - B. Anaximander of Miletus
  - C. Anaximenes of Miletus
  - D. Xenophanes
  - E. Heraclitus of Ephesus
- Chapter III: The Italians
  - A. The Pythagoreans
    - 1) Pythagoras of Samos
    - 2) Pythagorean Doctrines
  - B. Parmenides of Elea
  - C. Zeno of Elea
  - D. Melissus of Samos
- Chapter IV: Empedocles of Acragas
  - A. On Nature
  - B. Purifications
- Chapter V: Anaxagoras of Clazimenae
- Chapter VI: Atomism
  - Diogenes of Apollonia
- Chapter VII: The Sophists
  - A. Protagoras of Abdera
  - B. Gorgias of Leontini
  - C. Prodicus of Ceos
  - D. Some Other Sophists
  - E. Concluding Summary
Part II: The Classical Period
- Chapter I: Socrates
  - A. His Life
  - B. The Character of Socrates
  - C. The Doctrine of Socrates
  - D. The Socratic Schools
- Chapter II: Plato
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. The Doctrine of Forms
  - C. The Crisis in Plato's Thought
  - D. Plato's Natural Doctrine
  - E. Plato's View of Man
- Chapter III: Aristotle
  - A. The Man and his Work
  - B. The Nature and Division of Philosophy
  - C. Aristotle's Logic
  - D. Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature
  - E. Moral and Political Philosophy
  - F. First Philosophy
Part III: The Hellenistic Period
- Chapter I: Epicureanism
  - A. Canonic
  - B. Physics
  - C. Ethics
  - D. The History of the School
- Chapter II: The Stoics
  - A. Logic
  - B. Physics
  - C. Ethics
  - D. The Roman Stoics
- Chapter III: Sceptics and the New Academy
  - A. Pyrrho of Elis
  - B. Timon of Philus
  - C. Arcesilaus
  - D. Carneades of Cyrene
  - E. Some Later Sceptics
  - F. The Subsequent History of the Academy
- Chapter IV: Neoplatonism
  - A. Revival of Pythagoreanism.
  - B. Plotinus
  - C. After Plotinus
Bibliography
- Readings for Part One
  - A. Sources
  - B. General Studies
  - C. Particular Studies
- Readings for Part Two
  - A. Sources and Studies: Plato
  - B. Sources and Studies: Aristotle
- Readings for Part Three
Index to Volume I

Volume II

Part I: The Age of Augustine
- Chapter I: Faith and Philosophy
- Chapter II: Saint Augustine
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. Philosophy and the Arts
  - C. Philosophy and Beatitude
  - D. Criticism of Platonism
  - E. What Is Man?
  - F. God
  - G. Creation
  - H. The City of God
  - I. Conclusion
- Chapter III: Denis the Areopagite
- Chapter IV: Boethius
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. Faith and Reason
  - C. Division of Philosophy
  - D. The Status of Universals
  - F. Plato or Aristotle?
  - F. Conclusion
- Chapter V: Cassiodorus, Isadore, Bede
Part II: The Carolingian Renaissance
- Chapter I: Alcuin and Rhabanus Maurus
  - A. Charlemagne and the Schools
  - B. Alcuin (735-804)
  - C. Fredegisus of Tours
  - D. Rhabanus Maurus (784-856)
  - E. The Carolingian Heritage
- Chapter II: John Scotus Erigena
  - A. His Life and Works
  - B. Faith and Philosophy
  - C. The Division of Nature
- Chapter III: Other Ninth and Tenth Century Figures
  - A. Heiric of Auxerre (c.835 - c.887)
  - B. Remigius of Auxerre (c.841 - c.908)
  - C. Gerbert of Aurillac (c.940-1003)
Part III: The Twelfth Century
- Chapter I: Introduction
- Chapter II: Saint Anselm of Canterbury
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. Faith and Reason
  - C. The Proof of God's Existence
  - D. Anselm and Dialectics
- Chapter III: Peter Abelard
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. Abelard's Logic
  - C. Faith and Reason
  - D. Abelard's Ethics
- Chapter IV: The School of Chartres
  - A. From Fulbert to Bernard
  - B. Gilbert of Poitiers (1076-1154)
  - C. William of Conches (c.1080 - c.ll84)
  - D. Thierry of Chartres (died before 1155)
  - E. Clarenbald of Arras (died c.1160)
  - F. John of Salisbury (1110-1180)
- Chapter V: Monastic Thought
  - A. Hugh of St. Victor (1096-1141)
  - B. Other Victorines
  - C. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
  - D. Other Figures
- Chapter VI: Dominicus Gundissilinus
  - A. What Is Philosophy?
  - B. The Division of Philosophy
Part IV: The Thirteenth Century
- Chapter I: The Background
  - A. The Universities
  - B. Translations
  - C. Islamic Philosophy
- Chapter II: The Beginnings
  - A. William of Auvergne (c.1180-1249)
  - B. Alexander of Hales (c.1185-1245)
  - C. Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253)
- Chapter III: Albert the Great
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. Faith and Reason
  - C. Conclusion
- Chapter IV: Roger Bacon
  - A. His Life and Work
  - B. The Opus majus
  - C. Conclusion
- Chapter V: Saint Bonaventure
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. The Nature of Philosophy
  - C. Simultaneity of Knowledge and Belief
  - D. Is Philosophy Autonomous?
  - E. The Division of Philosophy
  - F. The Divine Ideas
  - C. The Nature of Illumination
  - H. Proofs of God's Existence
  - I. Creation and Universal Hylomorphism
  - J. Conclusion
- Chapter VI: Saint Thomas Aquinas
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. Philosophy and Theology
  - C. The Division of Philosophy
  - D. Logic
  - E. Natural Philosophy
  - F. Metaphysics
  - G. Moral Philosophy
  - H. Thomas and His Time
- Chapter VII: Conclusion
Part V: The Fourteenth Century
- Chapter I: Introduction
- Chapter II: John Duns Scotus
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. Being and God
  - C. Faith and Reason
- Chapter III: William of Ockham
  - A. The Man and His Work
  - B. Knowledge
  - C. Logic
  - D. Metaphysics
Index to Volume II

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