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100 1 _aFaguet, Émile,
_d1847-1916
245 1 0 _aInitiation philosophique
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aCollection des initiations
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-06
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Polona digital library)
520 _aInitiation philosophique by Émile Faguet is a primer on the history of philosophy written in the early 20th century. Aimed at beginners, it offers a swift, lucid tour from the earliest Greek thinkers to Christian and medieval thought, stressing how doctrines connect across eras. It positions itself as a convenient framework and reference that arouses curiosity and prepares readers for deeper study. The opening of the work announces its purpose: to guide novices rapidly from the remotest origins to the latest efforts of the human mind and to serve as a broad framework for future learning. It then surveys Antiquity, outlining the pre-Socratics’ explanations of nature (from Thales’s water and Heraclitus’s flux to Anaxagoras’s ordering mind and Democritus’s atoms), the Sophists’ skeptical, rhetorical training, and Socrates’s ethical turn and probing dialectic. Next come Plato’s Ideas, dialectic, moral idealism, and political blueprint, followed by Aristotle’s system, logic, and measured ethics. The narrative sketches later schools—the Cynics and Cyrenaics, Epicurean calm, and Stoic rigor—then the eclectic and skeptical reactions. It proceeds to Neoplatonism’s emanationism (Plotinus and followers) and the philosophical dimensions of Christianity, highlighting the moral novelty and the syntheses of Origen and Augustine. The section closes by opening the Middle Ages, where philosophy becomes theology’s handmaid under scholasticism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Hachette, 1913
653 _aPhilosophy -- Introductions
653 _aPhilosophy -- History
830 0 _aCollection des initiations
856 4 _uhttps://polona.pl/preview/0524fe70-138e-407b-a1a6-c70fccef2ce0
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77187
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