Critical History of Eclecticism

Stanley Thomas Stanley (1625–1678) was an English author whose History of Philosophy (1655–1662) was the first major work on the subject written in English. did not speak of the Eclectics The "Eclectic" school of philosophy sought to combine the best doctrines from various systems, such as those of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. In this context, it often refers to the Neoplatonists of Alexandria. at all in his History of Philosophy written in English. Doctor Olearius Gottfried Olearius (1672–1715) was a German philologist and theologian who translated Stanley’s work into Latin in 1711, adding his own supplementary material., who translated this work into Latin, wished to fill this void. But his Dissertation on the Eclectic Sect original: "Dissertation sur la Secte Eclectique" does not contain even twenty pages in the Venice edition. It must not even be hidden that Doctor Olearius was imbued with that prejudice common to the writers of the Augsburg Confession Augsburg Confession: The primary confession of faith used by the Lutheran Church, established in 1530., that the opinions of the Eclectic philosophers had exerted a great deal of influence on Christian Theology. It may therefore seem singular that Olearius’s Dissertation was printed in Venice with the permission of the Superiors This refers to the "Imprimatur" or official license to print a book, granted by Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censors. It is unusual because Olearius was a Lutheran (adherent of the Augsburg Confession)..

One should have expected that, with the more ample materials provided by Mr. Brucker Johann Jakob Brucker (1696–1770) was the author of the Historia Critica Philosophiae, the most comprehensive and influential history of philosophy in the 18th century., the author of the article Eclecticism would give—