CHAPTER II.

CHARACTER AND CHIEF FEATURES OF THE POST-ARISTOTELIAN PHILOSOPHY.

A. Causes forming the post-Aristotelian philosophy 15 1. Political causes 15 2. Intellectual causes 17 B. Common characteristics of the post-Aristotelian philosophy 19 1. Theory subordinated to practice 19 2. Peculiar mode of treating the practical problem 21 3. These peculiarities illustrated by subsequent philosophy 22 C. Development of the post-Aristotelian philosophy 25 1. Dogmatic Schools—Stoics and Epicureans, Dogmatic Scepticism 25 2. Sceptical Schools—influences producing—Scepticism and Eclecticism 26 3. Religious School of Neoplatonists 31