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Excerpt from StoicismOf discovery, and could make therefore little progress in their course. There was a sublime audacity in the way in which they grappled with great questions, constructed systems of the universe, and explained as they thought the laws of nature, before they had determined the Simplest rules of logic, or had any more appliances than the experience of the untrained senses. They were like the early painters who aspired often to...

About the Book Books on Philosophy consider the ideas of philosophers through the ages about fundamentals of human values and existence, and how they play out in the activities and behaviors of human beings. Titles include: A brief history of Greek philosophy, A Primer of Philosophy, An Essay in Practical Philosophy, Relations of Wisdom and Purpose, A study of Kant's psychology with reference to the critical philosophy, A short history of Celt...

Excerpt from Stoicism The study of Stoicism cannot be properly begun without some attempt to trace its germs in earlier speculation, and to note what was the state of Greek society in which it first took root before it was transferred to other and perhaps to kindlier soils. Like all the famous systems which divided the earnest thinkers of the old Greek world, its real starting-point is to be found in the life and thought of Socrates, whose or...