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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

IN EPITOME,

BY

DR. ALBERT SCHWEGLER.

TEANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN,

BY

JULIUS H. SEELYE.

FIFTH EDITION.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

549 & 551 BROADWAY.

1879.

ENTERED, according to act of Congress, in the year 1856,

BY JULIUS H. SEELYE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

BY HENRY B. SMITH, D. D.

THE History of Philosophy, by Dr. Albert Schwegler, is considered in Germany as the best concise manual upon the subject from the school of Hegel. Its account of the Greek and of the German systems, is of especial value and importance. It presents the whole history of speculation in its consecutive order. Though following the method of Hegel's more extended lectures upon the progress of philosophy, and though it makes the system of Hegel to be the ripest product of philosophy, yet it also rests upon independent investigations. It will well reward diligent study, and is one of the best works for a

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