SIR ALEXANDER GRANT, BART., M.A., LL.D. PRINCIPAL AND VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; HON. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY; AND FORMERLY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD, THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND PARTLY REWRITTEN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME THE FIRST. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. PREFACE ΤΟ THE THIRD EDITION. IN the present Edition the following alterations occur: Essay I. has been rewritten, chiefly in reference to the Authorship of the Eudemian Ethics, and of Books V. VI. VII. of the Nicomachean Treatise. Essay II. has received additions and modifications, especially in reference to Grote's paradox-that the Sophists were not sophistical. The account of Plato's Ethical system in Essay III. has been somewhat expanded. The beginning and the latter part of Essay IV. have been slightly changed. Several additions have been made to Essay V. The Author's theory of the Semitic origin of Stoicism has been more fully drawn out in Essay VI. Essay VII. has been rewritten, and some reference made in it to contemporaneous speculations in Ethics. |