Of the French Academy

Author of "The Cult Of Incompetence,"
"Initiation Into Literature," etc.

Translated from the French by Sir Homer Gordon, Bart.

1914

CONTENTS

[ PREFACE ]

[ INITIATION INTO PHILOSOPHY ]

[ PART I. ANTIQUITY ]

[ CHAPTER I. BEFORE SOCRATES ]

[ CHAPTER II. THE SOPHISTS ]

[ CHAPTER III. SOCRATES ]

[ CHAPTER IV. PLATO ]

[ CHAPTER V. ARISTOTLE ]

[ CHAPTER VI. VARIOUS SCHOOLS ]

[ CHAPTER VII. EPICUREANISM ]

[ CHAPTER VIII. STOICISM ]

[ CHAPTER IX. ECLECTICS AND SCEPTICS ]

[ CHAPTER X. NEOPLATONISM ]

[ CHAPTER XI. CHRISTIANITY ]

[ PART II. IN THE MIDDLE AGES ]

[ CHAPTER I. FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY TO THE THIRTEENTH ]

[ CHAPTER II. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY ]

[ CHAPTER III. THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES ]

[ CHAPTER IV. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ]

[ PART III. MODERN TIMES ]

[ CHAPTER I. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ]

[ CHAPTER II. CARTESIANS ]

[ CHAPTER III. THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ]

[ CHAPTER IV. THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS OF THE ]

[ CHAPTER V. FRENCH PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ]

[ CHAPTER VI. KANT ]

[ CHAPTER VII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: GERMANY ]

[ CHAPTER VIII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ENGLAND ]

[ CHAPTER IX. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: FRANCE ]

[ INDEX OF NAMES ]