# Early Greek philosophy

Author: Burnet, John, 1863-1928

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67097

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Early+Greek+philosophy+Burnet&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I. It was not till the primitive view of the world and the customary rules of life had broken down, that the Greeks, began to feel the needs which philosophies of nature and of conduct seek to satisfy. Nor were those needs felt all at once. The traditional maxims of conduct were not seriously questioned till the old view of nature had passed away; and, for this reason, the earliest philosophers busied themselves mainly with speculations about the world around them. In due season, Logic was called into being to meet a fresh want. The pursuit of cosmological inquiry beyond a certain point inevitably brought to light a wide divergence between science and common sense, which was itself a prob...

## Chapters

- [viii. 60): Ἡρακλείδης τε ἐν τῷ Περὶ νόσων φησὶ καὶ Παυσανίᾳ](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/10/index.md)
- [x. 600 b 1, Plato speaks of Pythagoras as the originator of a private](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/5/index.md)
- [did. I would further suggest that the old-fashioned συγγραφάς is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/11/index.md)
- [i. 6, 2), πρῶτος τοὔνομα καλέσας τῆς ἀρχῆς, have led nearly all](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/early-greek-philosophy-67097/chapters/4/index.md)