Pessimism - A History and a Criticism #226990

Characteristics of reasoned forms — Varieties according to the subject matter — According to the arguments employed — Modes of getting rid of the evil of the world — Historical review: The theology of the Hebrews — Indian philosophy~ — Greek religious thought — Early Greek speculation — The Sceptics — The Ethicists — Metaphysics of Plato, Aristotle, &c. — The Alexandrine philosophy — The Christian doctrine of life — The Fathers — Free-will and predestination — The Schoolmen Giordano Bruno — Spinoza — Theodicy of Leibnitz — English writers of the eighteenth century: optimism in the theological disputes — Shaftesbury and Pope — The Ethical Optimists Hartley, Tucker, Smith, &c.