AMONG THE GREEKS. 



THE GREEK PERIODS. (After 



GENERAL CONCEPTION 

 OF NATURE. 



Mythological. 



DIVISIONS OF THE SCHOOLS. 



FIRST PERIOD. 



Naturalistic. 



Earlier Materialistic. 



SECOND PERIOD. 



Teleological. 



The Prehistoric Traditions. 

 I. The Three Earliest Schools. 



The lonians. Thales (624-548), 

 Anaximander (611-547), Anax- 

 imenes (588-524), Diogenes 

 (440- ). 



The Pythagoreans. (580-430.) 

 The Eleatics. Xenophanes (576- 



480), Parmenides (544- ). 

 II. Physicists. 



Heraclitus (535-475), Empedocles 

 (495-435 ), Democritus (450- 



), Anaxagoras, (500-428). 

 Socrates (470-399), Plato (427- 



347)- 



Aristotle (384-322). 

 The Peripatetics, or post-Aristotelian 



school, including Theophrastus, 



Preaxagoras, Herophilus, Erasis- 



tratus. 



A. I. The Stoics. 



II. The Epicureans. Epicurus (341- 



270 B.C.). 

 III. The Sceptics. 



B. I. Eclecticism. Galen (131-201 A.D.). 



In Zeller's volumes on Greek Philosophy, and 

 in his special discussion of Evolution among the 

 Greeks, Die Griechischen Vorganger Darwin s, 

 we find a full examination of the speculations of 

 these ancient philosophers. Lange and Haeckel 



THIRD PERIOD. 



Later Materialistic. 



