Ancient Greek philosophy : from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic philosophers

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Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers; 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 IIPart 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 Forms8.3 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