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Title: A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Author: W. T. Stace

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[Transcriber's Notes]
This text is derived from a copy in the Ave Maria University
library, catalog number "B 171 .S8"

[End Transcriber's Notes]

A CRITICAL HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY

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A CRITICAL HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY

BY

W. T. STACE

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1920

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PREFACE

This book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of
a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of
1919. The original division into lectures has been dropped, the matter
being more conveniently redivided into chapters.

The audience to whom the lectures were delivered was composed of
members of the general public, and not only of students. For the most
part they possessed no previous knowledge of philosophy. Hence this
book, like the original lectures, assumes no previous special
knowledge, though it assumes, of course, a state of general education
in the reader. Technical philosophical terms are carefully explained
when first introduced; and a special effort has been made to put
philosophical ideas in the clearest way possible. But it must be
remembered that many of the profoundest as well as the most difficult
of human conceptions are to be found in Greek philosophy. Such ideas
are difficult in themselves, however clearly expressed. No amount of
explanation can ever render them anything but difficult to the
unsophisticated mind, and anything in the nature of "philosophy made
easy" is only to be expected from quacks and charlatans.

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