Preface

Abbreviations

1. Introductory A. H. Armstrong

Part I. Greek Philosophy from Plato to Plotinus P. Merlan: 2. The old academy

3. Aristotle

4. The later academy and Platonism

5. The Pythagoreans

6. The Peripatos

7. The Stoa

Part II. Philo and the beginnings of Christian thought Rev. H. Chadwick: 8. Philo

9. The beginning of Christian philosophy: Justin: the Gnostics

10. Clement of Alexandria

11. Origen

Part III. Plotinus A. H. Armstrong: 12. Life: Plotinus and the religion of superstition of his time

13. Teaching and writing

14. Man and reality

15. The one and intellect

16. From intellect to matter: the return to the one

Part IV. The Later Neoplatonists A. C. Lloyd: 17. Introduction to later neoplatonism

18. Porphyry and Iamblichus

19. Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism

Part V. Marius Victorinus and Augustine R. A. Markus: 20. Marius victorinus

21. Augustine. Biographical introduction: Charistianity and philosophy

22. Augustine. Man: body and soul

23. Augustine. Reason and illumination

24. Augustine. Sense and imagination

25. Augustine. Human action: will and virtue

26. Augustine. God and nature

27. Augustine: man in history and society

Part VI. The Greek Christian Platonist tradition from the Cappadocians to Maximus and Eriugena I. P. Sheldon-Williams: 28. Introduction: Greek Christian Platonism

29. The Cappadocians

30. The pseudo-Dionysius

31. The reaction against Proclus

32. St Maximus the Confessor

33. The Philosophy of Icons

34. Johannes Scottus Eriugena

Part VII. Western Christian thought from Boethius to Anselm H. Liebeschü

tz: 35. Boethius and the legacy of antiquity

36. Development of thought in the Carolingian Empire

37. The debate on philosophical learning during the transition period (900-1080)

38. Anselm of Canterbury: the philosophical interpretation of faith

Part VIII. Early Islamic philosophy R. Walter: 39. Introductory

40. Al-Farabi and his successors

Select bibliography

Additional notes and bibliography

Index of ancient and medieval works referred to in the text

General index

Index of Greek terms.