THE HISTORY O F PHILOSOPHY, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE BEGINNING OF THE PRESENT CENTURY; DRAWN UP FROM BRUCKER'S Hiftoria Critica Philofophiæ. BY WILLIAM ENFIELD, LL. D. Opinionum commenta delet dies, naturæ judicia confirmat. CIC. FOR P. WOGAN, P. BYRNE, A. GRUEBER, W. M'KENZIE, J. RICE, R. WHITE, and G. DRAPER. M,DCC,XCII. воок III. OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ROMANS. СНА Р. І. OF THE STATE OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE ROMAN N relating the history of Philofophy during THE FIRST PERIOD, we have traced its rife and progrefs, in every age and country in which it has appeared, from the earliest times to the æra of the establishment of the fchools of Alexandria. THE SECOND PERIOD, on which we are. now entering, will comprehend the whole feries of philofophical hiftory, from the æra juft mentioned to the revival of letters; and will exhibit the forms, under which philofophy fucceflively appeared, among the Romans; among the Eastern Nations, particularly the Jews and Saracens; and among the Chriftians. The hiftory of philofophy among the Romans, in the infancy of their ftate, has been already briefly confidere 1, under the general head of Barbaric philofophy; and we have little to add to what has been related refpecting this VOL. II. B epocha: |