Hegel Lectures on the History of PhilosophyVolume II: Greek Philosophy

by Brown, Robert F.

• ISBN13: 9780199279067
• ISBN10: 0199279063
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Hegel Lectures SeriesSeries Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials from different sources anddates, obscuring the development and logic of Hegel's thought. The Hegel Lectures series is based on a selection of extant and recently discovered transcripts and manuscripts. The original lecture series are reconstructed so that the structure of Hegel's argument can be followed. Each volumepresents an accurate new translation accompanied by an editorial introduction and annotations on the text, which make possible the identification of Hegel's many allusions and sources. Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion represent the final and in some ways the decisive element of his entire philosophical system. His conception and execution of the lectures differed significantly on each of the occasions he delivered them, in 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831. The oldereditions introduced insoluble problems by conflating these materials into an editorially constructed text. The present volumes establish a critical edition by separating the series of lectures and presenting them as independent units on the basis of a complete re-editing of the sources by WalterJaeschke. The English translation has been prepared by a team consisting of Robert F. Brown, Peter C. Hodgson, and J. Michael Stewart, with the assistance of H. S. Harris. Now widely recognized as the definitive English edition, it is being reissued by Oxford in the Hegel Lectures Series. Thethree volumes include editorial introductions, critical annotations on the text, textual variants, and tables, bibliography, and glossary.'Determinate Religion' comprises Hegel's treatment of world religions, starting with indigeneous or nature religions, moving on to religions of the Far East (Hinduism, Buddhism, Lamaism), the Near East (Persian, Egyptian, and Jewish religions), and the West (Greek and Roman religions). What Hegelsucceeded in offering is not so much a history as a geography of religions, as demonstrated by the different schematic structures adopted in successive years.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
List of Abbreviations	xiii
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION	1	(6)
The German Edition	1	(1)
This English Edition	2	(5)
THE FIRST PERIOD: GREEK PHILOSOPHY	7	(340)
Introduction to Greek Philosophy	9	(5)
From Thales to Aristotle	14	(249)
Introduction: The Three Divisions	14	(1)
The Presocratics: From Thales to Anaxagoras	14	(95)
Introduction	14	(3)
The Seven Sages and the Milesians: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes	17	(14)
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans	31	(23)
The Eleatics: Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno	54	(16)
Heraclitus	70	(12)
Empedocles and the Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus	82	(1)
Empedocles	82	(5)
Leucippus and Democritus	87	(7)
Anaxagoras	94	(15)
The Sophists, Socrates, and the Socratic Schools	109	(66)
Introduction	109	(2)
The Sophists	111	(13)
Socrates	124	(32)
The Socratic Schools	156	(1)
Introduction	156	(2)
The Megarics	158	(5)
The Cyrenaics	163	(8)
The Cynics	171	(4)
The Great Systems: Plato and Aristotle	175	(88)
Plato	175	(1)
Life and Place in History	175	(7)
Mythos and Thought	182	(13)
Dialectic	195	(12)
Philosophy of Nature	207	(11)
Philosophy of Spirit	218	(7)
Aristotle	225	(1)
Life and Works	226	(5)
Diverse Views of his Thought	231	(3)
Metaphysics	234	(5)
Physics and Philosophy of Nature	239	(5)
Philosophy of Spirit	244	(14)
Logic	258	(5)
Dogmatic and Skeptical Philosophy	263	(54)
Introduction	263	(1)
Dogmatic Philosophy	264	(30)
Introduction	264	(1)
Stoicism	265	(1)
The Principal Stoics	265	(3)
Logic	268	(3)
Philosophy of Nature	271	(2)
Stoic Morals	273	(6)
Epicurean Philosophy	279	(1)
Epicurus and his Followers	279	(3)
Logic	282	(1)
Metaphysics	283	(2)
Philosophy of Nature	285	(3)
Philosophy of Spirit	288	(6)
Skepticism and the New Academy	294	(23)
The Academy in Later Centuries	294	(1)
Arcesilaus and the Middle Academy	295	(3)
Carneades and the New Academy	298	(4)
Skepticism Proper: Pyrrho, Aenesidemus, Sextus Empiricus	302	(1)
Introduction and General Aim	302	(7)
Argumentative Procedure: The Tropes	309	(8)
Neoplatonic Philosophy	317	(30)
General Characteristics	317	(6)
The Philosophers	323	(24)
Philo of Alexandria	323	(4)
The Cabalists	327	(1)
The Gnostics	328	(2)
The Alexandrian school	330	(1)
Ammonius Saccas and Plotinus	331	(9)
Proclus	340	(7)
Glossary	347	(8)
Bibliography of Hegel's Sources for Greek Philosophy	355	(12)
Index	367