List of Illustrations

pp.：  11 – 12

Acknowledgements

pp.：  13 – 14

Abbreviations

pp.：  15 – 16

Citations

pp.：  17 – 18

Preface

pp.：  19 – 20

Introduction

pp.：  21 – 30

Chapter One The Concept 'System of Philosophy': The Case of Jacob Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy

pp.：  31 – 54

I. Introduction

pp.：  31 – 32

II. The Notion 'System of Philosophy' as a Historiographical Tool in Brucker's Historia critica philosophiae

pp.：  33 – 41

III. Brucker's Historiographical Notion 'System of Philosophy' and the Notions 'Syncretism' and 'Eclecticism'

pp.：  42 – 50

IV. The Usefulness of the Concept 'System of Philosophy'

pp.：  51 – 54

Chapter Two Brucker's Practice I: His Exposition of Bruno

pp.：  55 – 78

I. Brucker's Exposition of Bruno's Philosophy and Earlier Histories of Philosophy

pp.：  56 – 56

II. Direct Sources: Brucker's List of Bruno's Works and his Use of them

pp.：  57 – 60

III. Brucker's Exclusion of Bruno's Lullian Works

pp.：  61 – 62

IV. Indirect Sources

pp.：  63 – 63

V. Bruno's so-called Circumstances

pp.：  64 – 69

VI. Brucker on Bruno's 'System of Philosophy'

pp.：  70 – 73

VII. Did Bruno Endorse a System of Philosophy?

pp.：  74 – 78

Conclusion

pp.：  79 – 82

Chapter Three Brucker's Practice II: His Expositions of Thales, Plato and Aristotle

pp.：  83 – 128

I. Is Brucker's Exposition of Bruno Representative?

pp.：  83 – 83

II. Brucker on Thales

pp.：  84 – 92

(i) Sources to Thales' Philosophy

pp.：  84 – 84

(ii) Does Brucker Attribute a System of Philosophy to Thales?

pp.：  85 – 86

(iii) General Principles in Thales' System of Philosophy

pp.：  87 – 87

(iv) Brucker's Reconstruction of Thales' System of Philosophy

pp.：  88 – 89

(v) Is Brucker's Exposition of Thales' Philosophy Adequate?

pp.：  90 – 92

III. Brucker on Plato

pp.：  93 – 113

(i) Brucker's Approach to Plato's Philosophy

pp.：  93 – 96

(ii) Sources to Plato's Philosophy

pp.：  97 – 98

(iii) Does Brucker Attribute a System of Philosophy to Plato?

pp.：  99 – 100

(iv) General Principles in Plato's System of Philosophy

pp.：  101 – 101

(v) Brucker's Reconstruction of Plato's System of Philosophy

pp.：  102 – 106

(vi) Is Brucker's Reconstruction of Plato's Philosophy Adequate?

pp.：  107 – 113

IV. Brucker on Aristotle

pp.：  114 – 128

(i) Sources to Aristotle's Philosophy

pp.：  114 – 116

(ii) Does Brucker Attribute a System of Philosophy to Aristotle?

pp.：  117 – 116

(iii) General Principles in Aristotle's System of Philosophy

pp.：  117 – 118

(iv) Brucker's Reconstruction of Aristotle's System of Philosophy

pp.：  119 – 121

(v) Is Brucker's Exposition of Aristotle's Philosophy Adequate?

pp.：  122 – 128

Conclusion

pp.：  129 – 134

Chapter Four Giordano Bruno's Hermeneutics: Observations on the Bible in De monade (1591)

pp.：  135 – 162

I. The Main Source for Bruno's Interpretation of the Bible

pp.：  135 – 136

II. The Historiographical Tradition

pp.：  137 – 143

III. Bruno's Theory of Nine Levels of Meaning in Divinely Inspired Texts

pp.：  144 – 159

(i) The Range of Texts on which the Theory can be Applied

pp.：  146 – 150

(ii) The Infi nity and Profundity of Divine Language

pp.：  151 – 151

(iii) The Application of the Theory

pp.：  152 – 156

(iv) The Sources for the Nine Individual Levels of Meaning

pp.：  157 – 159

IV. Uses of the Hermeneutic Theory outside De monade

pp.：  160 – 162

Conclusion

pp.：  163 – 166

Chapter Five Apologetic Strains in Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy

pp.：  167 – 208

I. Confl icting Statements regarding the Objectivity of Brucker's Historiography

pp.：  167 – 169

II. Brucker on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation

pp.：  170 – 175

III. Historiographical Implications of Brucker's Conception of Philosophy

pp.：  176 – 178

IV. Heumann on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation

pp.：  179 – 184

V. Melanchton on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation

pp.：  185 – 188

VI. Heumann's Scheme of Periodization

pp.：  189 – 196

VII. Keckermann's Pedagogical and Methodological Reform

pp.：  197 – 204

VIII. Brucker's Immediate Background: Eclecticism

pp.：  205 – 208

Conclusion

pp.：  209 – 212

Chapter Six The Infl uence of the Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'

pp.：  213 – 295

I. Internal and External Infl uences

pp.：  213 – 214

II. History of Philosophy

pp.：  215 – 284

(i) Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann (1761–1819)

pp.：  217 – 224

(ii) Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)

pp.：  225 – 228

( iii) Friedrich Ast (1778–1841)

pp.：  229 – 231

( iv) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

pp.：  232 – 246

(v) Victor Cousin (1792–1867)

pp.：  247 – 248

(vi) Eduard Zeller (1814–1908)

pp.：  249 – 257

(vii) Kuno Fischer (1824–1907)

pp.：  258 – 259

( viii) Friedrich Ueberweg (1826–1871)

pp.：  260 – 271

(ix) Hans Brøchner (1820–1875)

pp.：  272 – 276

(x) Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945)

pp.：  277 – 284

IV. History of Ideas

pp.：  285 – 279

III. History of Problems

pp.：  280 – 295

Conclusion

pp.：  296 – 302

Chapter Seven The Legitimacy of the Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'

pp.：  303 – 350

I. Prevailing Models in Modern Historiography of Philosophy

pp.：  303 – 303

II. Problems in the Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'

pp.：  304 – 323

(i) Autonomy of Individual Systems of Philosophy

pp.：  306 – 307

(ii) Autonomy of Philosophical Movements Inspired by a Classical Philosopher

pp.：  308 – 311

(iii) Deduction from Principles in Individual Systems of Philosophy

pp.：  312 – 311

(iv) Comprehensiveness in a System of Philosophy: All Branches of Philosophy

pp.：  312 – 313

(v) Internal Coherence in an Individual System of Philosophy

pp.：  314 – 314

(vi) Pedagogical Problems in Teaching Histories of Systems of Philosophy

pp.：  315 – 316

(vii) A Priori Exclusion of Thinkers and Periods

pp.：  317 – 318

(viii) The Last Advocate of the Old Historiography of Philosophy: Gadamer

pp.：  319 – 323

III. Skinner's Historiography of Moral and Political Philosophy

pp.：  324 – 350

(i) Skinner's Criticism of Lovejoy's Method for the History of Ideas: The Three Mythologies

pp.：  324 – 333

(ii) Skinner's Methodological Alternative

pp.：  334 – 336

(iii) The Historiography of Moral and Political Philosophy and Its Context

pp.：  337 – 338

(iv) For which Historical Disciplines is Skinner's Alternative Methodology Valid?

pp.：  339 – 343

(v) Are there Limits to Skinner's Alternative Methodology? (Appendices)

pp.：  344 – 350

A. Portraits of Jacob Brucker

pp.：  351 – 354

B. Jacob Brucker's Citations in his Exposition of Giordano Bruno

pp.：  355 – 360

C. Christoph August Heumann's Scheme of Periodization

pp.：  361 – 364

D. Jacob Brucker's Scheme of Periodization

pp.：  365 – 370

Bibliography

pp.：  371 – 388

Index of Names

pp.：  389 – 397

Index of References to Jacob Brucker's Writings

pp.：  398 – 408