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• Cover
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 From Mythology to Philosophy
• 1.2 History and Philosophy
• 1.3 Overview
• 2 The Presocratics
• 2.1 The Birth of the Gods
• 2.2 A New Way of Understanding
• 2.3 Theories of Matter
• 2.4 Parmenides’s Criticisms of Natural Philosophy
• 2.5 After Parmenides
• 2.6 Cosmogony and Cosmology
• 2.7 Sophistic
• 2.8 Conclusion
• 3 Socrates
• 3.1 The Socratic Problem
• 3.2 Socratic Paradoxes
• 3.3 Negative Method
• 3.4 Intellectualism
• 3.5 Living Virtuously
• 3.6 Logic Therapy
• 3.7 Socrates and the State
• 3.8 Conclusion
• 4 Plato
• 4.1 Life and Work
• 4.2 The Soul and Knowledge
• 4.3 The Transcendent Forms
• 4.4 The Forms and the Soul
• 4.5 The Republic
• 4.6 The Theory of Forms and Its Problems
• 4.7 Cosmology, Science, and Theology
• 4.8 Conclusion
• 5 Aristotle
• 5.1 Life and Works
• 5.2 Basic Ontology
• 5.3 Logic, Science, Knowledge
• 5.4 Nature, Change, and Explanation
• 5.5 Cosmology
• 5.6 Psychology
• 5.7 Metaphysics
• 5.8 Ethics
• 5.9 Conclusion
• 6 Hellenistic Philosophy
• 6.1 Epicureanism
• 6.2 Stoicism
• 6.3 Skepticism
• 6.4 Conclusion
• 7 Plotinus and Neoplatonism
• 7.1 Middle Platonism
• 7.2 Plotinus
• 7.3 The Hierarchy of Being
• 7.4 Souls
• 7.5 Ethics
• 7.6 Greco‐Roman Theology
• 7.7 Influence
• Notes
• 8 Augustine and Christian Philosophy
• 8.1 Jewish Intellectual Developments
• 8.2 Early Christian Thought
• 8.3 Augustine
• References
• Index
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