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AMONG THE GREEKS. 



The Greek Periods. {After Zeller.) 



GENERAL CONCEPTION 



OF NATURE. 



Mythological, 



First Period. 



Naturalistic. 



DIVISIONS OF THE SCHOOLS. 



The Prehistoric Traditions. 

 I. The Three Earliest Schools. 



The lonians. Thales (624-548), 

 Anaxiinander (611-547), Anax- 

 imenes (588-524^7^'biogenes 

 (440- ). 

 The Pythagoreans. (580-430.) 

 The Eleatics. Xenophanes (576- 

 480), Parmenides (544- ). 

 II. Physicists. 



Heraclitus (535-475), Empedocles 

 (495-435). Democritus (450- 

 ), .^naxagoras, (500-428). 

 Socrates (470-399), Plato (427- 



347)- 

 Aristotle (3S4-322). 

 The Peripatetics, or post-Aristotelian 

 school, including Theophrastus, 

 Preaxagoras, Herophilus, Erasis- 

 tratus. 

 Third Period. 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 Vorg'dnger Darwms, 

 we find a full examination of the speculations of 



Lange and Haeckel 



Earlier Materialistic. 



Second Period. 



Teleologieal. 



Later Materialistic. 



these ancient philosophers. 



