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Hippolytus

Book I

Contents.

The Proœmium.—Motives for Undertaking the Refutation; Exposure of the Ancient Mysteries; Plan of the Work; Completeness of the Refutation; Value of the Treatise to Future Ages.

Thales; His Physics and Theology; Founder of Greek Astronomy.

Pythagoras; His Cosmogony; Rules of His Sect; Discoverer of Physiognomy; His Philosophy of Numbers; His System of the Transmigration of Souls; Zaratas on Demons; Why Pythagoras Forbade the Eating of Beans; The Mode of Living Adopted by His Disciples.

Empedocles; His Twofold Cause; Tenet of Transmigration.

Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other Systems.

Anaximander; His Theory of the Infinite; His Astronomic Opinions; His Physics.

Anaximenes; His System of “An Infinite Air;” His Views of Astronomy and Natural Phenomena.

Anaxagoras; His Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; His Cosmogony and Astronomy.

Archelaus; System Akin to that of Anaxagoras; His Origin of the Earth and of Animals; Other Systems.

Parmenides; His Theory of “Unity;” His Eschatology.

Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.

Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony.

Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes in a Flood.

Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity.

Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology.

Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato.

Plato; Threefold Classification of Principles; His Idea of God; Different Opinions Regarding His Theology and Psychology; His Eschatology and System of Metempsychosis; His Ethical Doctrines; Notions on the Free-Will Question.

Aristotle; Duality of Principles; His Categories; His Psychology; His Ethical Doctrines; Origin of the Epithet “Peripatetic.”

The Stoics; Their Superiority in Logic; Fatalists; Their Doctrine of Conflagrations.

Epicurus; Adopts the Democritic Atomism; Denial of Divine Providence; The Principle of His Ethical System.

The Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them.

The Brachmans; Their Mode of Life; Ideas of Deity; Different Sorts Of; Their Ethical Notions.

The Druids; Progenitors of Their System.

Hesiod; The Nine Muses; The Hesiodic Cosmogony; The Ancient Speculators, Materialists; Derivative Character of the Heresies from Heathen Philosophy.