CHICAGO LIBRARY HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN EPITOME, BY DR. ALBERT SCHWEGLER. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN, BY JULIUS H. SEELYE. THIRD EDITION. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 346 & 348 BROADWAY. LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN. 1860. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. 507289 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 135093 text-book in our colleges, upon this neglected branch of scientific investigation. The translation is made by a competent person, and gives, I doubt not, a faithful ren dering of the original. HENRY B. SMITH. UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 1855. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. SCHWEGLER'S History of Philosophy originally appeared in the "Neue Encyklopädie für Wissenschaften und Künste.” Its great value soon awakened a call for its separate issue, in which form it has attained a very wide circulation in Germany. It is found in the hands of almost every student in the philosophical department of a German university, and is highly esteemed for its clearness, conciseness, and comprehensiveness. The present translation was commenced in Germany three years ago, and has been carefully finished. It was undertaken with the conviction that the work would not lose its interest or its value in an English dress, and with the hope that it might be of wider service in such a form |