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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




