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The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics

The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics

by Eduard Zeller

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Author
Zeller, Eduard, 1814-1908
Original Publication
London: Longsmans, Green, and Co., 1892.
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Subject
Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 77777
Release Date
January 25, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE STOICS, EPICUREANS AND SCEPTICS
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.STATE OF CULTURE IN GREECE.
  5. 5.THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL STATE OF GREECE AT THE CLOSE OF THE FOURTH CENTURY.
  6. 6.CHARACTER AND CHIEF FEATURES OF THE POST-ARISTOTELIAN PHILOSOPHY.
  7. 7.THE STOICS.
  8. 8.HISTORY OF THE STOICS UNTIL THE END OF THE SECOND CENTURY B.C.
  9. 9.AUTHORITIES FOR THE STOIC PHILOSOPHY: ITS PROBLEM AND DIVISIONS.
  10. 10.LOGIC OF THE STOICS.
  11. 11.THE STUDY OF NATURE. FUNDAMENTAL POSITIONS.
  12. 12.THE STUDY OF NATURE. COURSE, CHARACTER, AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSE.
  13. 13.IRRATIONAL NATURE. THE ELEMENTS. THE UNIVERSE.
  14. 14.THE STUDY OF NATURE. MAN.
  15. 15.ETHICS. THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE STOIC ETHICS. ABSTRACT THEORY OF MORALITY.
  16. 16.THE STOIC THEORY OF MORALS AS MODIFIED BY PRACTICAL NEEDS.
  17. 17.APPLIED MORAL SCIENCE.
  18. 18.THE RELATION OF THE STOIC PHILOSOPHY TO RELIGION.
  19. 19.THE STOIC PHILOSOPHY AS A WHOLE AND ITS HISTORICAL POSITION.
  20. 20.THE EPICUREANS.
  21. 21.EPICURUS AND THE EPICUREAN SCHOOL. 1
  22. 22.CHARACTER AND DIVISIONS OF THE EPICUREAN TEACHING: THE TEST-SCIENCE OF TRUTH.
  23. 23.THE EPICUREAN VIEWS ON NATURE.
  24. 24.VIEWS OF EPICURUS ON RELIGION.
  25. 25.THE MORAL SCIENCE OF THE EPICUREANS. GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
  26. 26.THE EPICUREAN ETHICS CONTINUED: SPECIAL POINTS.
  27. 27.THE EPICUREAN SYSTEM AS A WHOLE; ITS POSITION IN HISTORY.
  28. 28.THE SCEPTICS—PYRRHO AND THE OLDER ACADEMY.
  29. 29.PYRRHO.
  30. 30.THE NEW ACADEMY.
  31. 31.INDEX.
  32. 32.Colophon — Revision History — Corrections

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