With the decline of the Roman Empire, which was so great, rich and glorious, and yet inwardly dead, the height and indeed the zenith of ancient Philosophy is associated through the Neo-Platonists at Alexandria.
We must know in ancient philosophy or in the philosophy of any given period, what we are going to look for.
Space and time have therefore necessarily, in ancient philosophy, the same origin and the same value.
But the intellect reverses the order of the two groups; and, on this point, ancient philosophyproceeds as the intellect does.
Such was the point of view of ancient philosophy in regard to change and duration.
From the standpoint of ancient philosophy, space and time can be nothing but the field that an incomplete reality, or rather a reality that has gone astray from itself, needs in order to run in quest of itself.
Compare, respecting the Chance of the atomists, Ritter's History of Ancient Philosophy, vol.
See also some remarks on the difference between this spirit and the love of novelty among the Greeks, in Ritter's History of Ancient Philosophy, vol.
That this is the only ground for believing in the freedom of the will is so evident, that we need not notice the mystical proof of Philo (Ritter's Ancient Philosophy, vol.
The Sophists furnish the most important epoch in the history of ancient philosophy; until their advent the philosophic systems were great poems on the total of all things, known and unknown.
When it was observed that the Sophists form the most important epoch in the history of ancient philosophy, it was because they taught Socrates to seek a philosophy which was entirely human and preoccupied solely with the happiness of man.
The stream of ancient philosophy in the Alexandrian and Roman times widens into a lake or sea, and then disappears underground to reappear after many ages in a distant land.
Not very different from Descartes in his relation to ancient philosophy is his successor Spinoza, who lived in the following generation.
Thomas Stanley, author of the History of Ancient Philosophy, undertook a more difficult task, and gave in 1663 his celebrated edition of Æschylus.
In the study of ancient philosophy, however, Gassendi was impressed with an admiration of Epicurus.
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