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AMONG THE GREEKS. 



The Greek Periods. {After Zeller^ 



GENERAL CONCEPTION 

 OF NATURE. 



Mythological. 



DIVISIONS OF THE SCHOOLS. 



First Period. 



Naturalistic. 



Earlier Materialistic. 



Second Period. 



Tehological. 



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. 



Herachtus (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. 



Third Period. A. I. The Stoics. 



II. The Epicureans. Epicurus (341- 



270 B.C.). 



III. The Sceptics. 



B. I. Eclecticism. Galen (13 1-20 1 a.d.). 



In Zeller's volumes on Greek Philosophy, and 

 in his special discussion of Evolution among the 

 Greeks, Die Griechischen Vo7^g'dnger Darwin s, 

 we find a full examination of the speculations of 

 these ancient philosophers. Lange and Haeckel 



Later Materialistic, 



