Preface
Part One ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Chaper I Socrates' Predecessors
What Is Permanent in Existence?
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
The Mathematical Basis of All Things
Pythagoras
Attempts to Explain Change
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Zeno
Empedocles
Anaxagoras
The Atomists
Atoms and the Void
Theory of Knowledge and Ethics
Chaper 2 The Sophists and Socrates
The Sophists
Protagoras
Gorgias
Thrasymachus
Socrates
Socrates' Life
Socrates as a Philosopher
Socrates' Theory of Knowledge: Intellectual Midwifery
Socrates' Moral Thought
Socrates' Trial and Death
Chaper 3 Plato
Plato's Life
Theory of Knowledge
The Cave
The Divided Line
Theory of Forms
Moral Philosophy
The Concept of the Soul
The Cause of Evil: Ignorance or Forgetfulness
Recovering Lost Morality
Virtue as Fulfillment of Function
Political Philosophy
The State as a Giant Person
The Philosopher-King
The Virtues in the State
The Decline of the Ideal State
View of the Cosmos
Chaper 4 Aristotle
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Part Two HELLENISTIC AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Chaper 5 Classical Philosophy after Aristotle
Chaper 6 Augustine
Chaper 7 Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages
Chaper 8 Aquinas and his Late Medieval Successors
Part Three EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Chaper 9 Philosophy during the Renaissance
Chaper 10 Rationalism on the Continent
Chaper 11 Empiricism in Britain
Part Four LATE MODERN AND19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
Chaper 12 Kant
Chapter13 German Idealism
Chaper 14 Utilitarianism and Positivism
Chaper 15 Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche
Part Five 20TH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
Chaper 16 Pragmatism and Process Philosophy
Chaper 17 Analytic Philosophy
Chaper 18 Phenomenology and Existentialism
Chapter 19 Recent Philosophy
Glossary
A Selected Bibliography
Index