Essays on the History of Ancient Philosophy: Rome, Ukrainian Catholic University of St. Clement Pope Publishing house, 1974, 399 pages.

This work is the second edition of M. Konrad's "History", which has been expanded by P. Isaev. In particular, the edition is expanded with various thematic sources that were not in the original 1930 edition. The "Essays" clarify and characterise the concept of the history of philosophy and reconstruct the development of philosophical ideas in the Ancient World. In addition to ancient Greek philosophy, which is the focus of the work, the author also describes the philosophical traditions of China, India, Egypt, Babylon, and Phoenicia.

Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION

1. The Concept of Philosophy
2. The Meaning of the Name "Philosophy"
3. The Scope of Philosophy
4. The History of Philosophy
5. Aim and Usefulness of History of Philosophy
6. Divisions of History of Philosophy
7. Sources

PART I

Far Eastern and Middle Eastern Philosophy

1. Chinese Philosophy
2. Ancient Chinese Religion
3. Lao-tzu
4. Confucius
5. Successive Development of the Two Systems
6. Indian Philosophy
7. The Vedanta
8. Sankhya and Related Systems
9. The Vaisheshika System
10. Buddhism
11. Materialistic Systems

III. Median Persian Religious Philosophy

The Teachings of Avesta

1. Egyptian Philosophy

Main Ideas of Egyptian Religious Philosophy

1. West-Asian Religious Philosophy
2. Babylonians and Assyrians
3. Phoenicians

Introduction To Specialized Studies of Problems in History of Philosophy

1. Additions to Bibliography
2. Bibliography of Bibliographies of Philosophy

PART II

The First Period of Ancient Greek Philosophy - Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Sixth to Fifth Century B. C.) - From Thales to the Sophists

1. Conditions of the Rise and Development of Greek an Roman Philosophy
2. Forerunners of Greek Philosophers
3. Sources of Greek Philosophy
4. Division of the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy
5. Bibliography

Introductory Remarks

1. The Subject Matter of Greek Philosophy
2. Centers of Philosophy
3. Philosophical Schools
4. Division
5. Bibliography
6. Earlier Ionian School
7. Thales
8. Anaximander
9. Anaximenes
10. Influence of the Ionian School
11. The Pythagorean School

Pythagoras

III. Heraclitus

1. The Eleatic School
2. Xenophanes
3. Parmenides
4. Zeno of Elea
5. Melissus
6. Followers of Eleaticism
7. Later Philosophers of Nature
8. Empedocles
9. Anaxagoras
10. The Atomists

Democritus

1. The Sophists
2. Protagoras
3. Gorgias
4. Later Sophists
5. The Meaning and Consequences of Sophist Philosophy

PART III

The Second Period of Ancient Greek Philosophy - Socratic-Atticist Philosophy - End of the Fifth and Fourth Century B. C.

Introductory Remarks

1. Characteristics of the Second Period
2. Philosophers and Their Schools.
3. Bibliography for the Second Period
4. Socrates
5. The Personality of Socrates
6. Socrates' Philosophical Activity
7. Socrates' Teachings
8. Note
9. Minor Socratic Schools.
10. Cynics
11. Cyrenaics (Hedonists)
12. Megarians and Eleatics

III. Major Socratic Schools

1. Plato
2. The Person
3. Works
4. Teachings
5. Dialectic
6. Physics
7. Ethics
8. Evaluation of Platonism
9. Influences on Platonism
10. The Essence of Platonism
11. The Meaning of Platonism
12. Errors of Platonism
13. Plato's School
14. Aristotle
15. The Person
16. Scientific Orientation
17. The Method
18. Works
19. Translations of Works
20. Division of Philosophy
21. Logic
22. Theoretical Philosophy
    1. Metaphysics
    2. Cosmology
    3. Psychology
    4. Theology
23. Practical Philosophy
    1. Ethics
    2. Social and Political Doctrines
    3. Aesthetical Doctrines
24. Evaluation of Aristotelianism.
    1. Parallels Between Plato and Aristotle
    2. The Essence of Aristotelianism
    3. The Meaning of Aristotelianism
    4. Errors of Aristotelianism
    5. The Peripatetic School

PART IV

Third and Fourth Period of Ancient Greek Philosophy - Greco-Roman and Greco-Oriental Philosophy - Third Century B. C. to Sixth Century A. D.

Third Period

Post-Aristotelian Hellenic Philosophy

Introductory Remarks

1. Characteristics of the Third Period
2. Division of Philosophy
3. Bibliography for the Third Period
4. Stoicism
5. Stoic Writers and Their Doctrines B. Logic
6. Physics
7. Ethics
8. The Essence of Stoicism
9. The Stoic School
10. Evaluation of Stoicism
11. Epicureanism
12. Epicurus and His Doctrines
13. Canonic
14. Physics
15. Ethics
16. Evaluation of Epicureanism
17. The Epicurean School

III. Scepticism

1. Genesis of Stoicism.
2. Pyrrho
3. The Middle Academy.
4. The Later Sceptics - Neopyrrhonists
5. Evaluation of Scepticism
6. Eclecticism
7. Philosophy in Rome

Fourth Period

Alexandrian Philosophy

Introductory Remarks

1. Alexandria
2. The Religious Problem
3. Theosophy
4. Subject Matter of Philosophy
5. Division of Philosophy
6. Bibliography for the Fourth Period
7. Greco-Jewish Philosophy
8. Philo and the Beginnings of Greco-Jewish Philosophy
9. Philo's Doctrines
10. The Essence and Evaluation of Philo's Philosophy
11. Philo's Influence
12. Neo-Pythagoreanism
13. Genesis of Neo-Pythagoreanism
14. Neo-Pythagorean Writers
15. Epigones of Neo-Pythagoreanism

III. Neo-Platonism.

1. Genesis of Neo-Platonism
2. Neo-Platonic Writers
3. Philosophy of Plotinus
4. Evaluation of Neo-Platonism
5. Neo-Platonic Schools
6. Influence of Neo-Platonism
7. Neo-Platonism and Christianity

Conclusion

Supplement on Bibliography after 1930