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• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Text Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: The Presocratics
• Time Line
• 1 The Milesian Revolution
• 1.1 The Milesians Turn to Nature
• 1.2 Parmenides
• 1.3 A Defense of the Inquiry into Nature
• Further Reading for Part I
• Part II: Socrates
• Time Line
• 2 The Good Life
• 2.1 Definitions
• 2.2 The Love of Wisdom
• 2.3 Intellectualism
• 3 Against the Sophists
• 3.1 The Sophists Come to Athens
• 3.2 The Sophist Sells Teachings for the Soul
• 3.3 Rhetoric is Blind to the Good
• Further Reading for Part II
• Part III: Plato
• 4 Three Platonic Theories
• 4.1 The Theory of Recollection
• 4.2 The Theory of Forms
• 4.3 The Tripartite Theory of the Soul
• 5 Justice and its Reward
• 5.1 The Opening Conversation
• 5.2 Justice
• 5.3 The Just Life is Better
• Further Reading for Part III
• Part IV: Aristotle
• 6 Second Philosophy
• 6.1 Natural Bodies and their Specific Behaviors
• 6.2 Natures are Forms
• 6.3 Teleology in Nature
• 7 Psychology
• 7.1 The Soul is the Form of the Body
• 7.2 Induction
• 7.3 Becoming Like the Unmovable First Mover
• 8 First Philosophy
• 8.1 The Science of Being
• 8.2 Substances are Forms
• 8.3 No Universal is a Substance
• 9 Ethics
• 9.1 The Function Argument
• 9.2 Theoretical Wisdom
• 9.3 Practical Wisdom
• Further Reading for Part IV
• Part V: Hellenistic Philosophers
• Time Line
• 10 Reaction to the Classical Tradition
• 10.1 Epicureanism
• 10.2 Stoicism
• 10.3 Skepticism
• Further Reading for Part V
• References
• Index of Passages
• General Index