On Ancient Philosophy (Wadsworth Philosophical Topics)
Preface. Introduction. 1. Historical and Cultural Background. The Polis, Colonies and Empires. War. Religion. 2. The Presocratics. Ionia. Homer. Hesiod. Thales. Anaximander. Anaximenes. Xenophanes. Heraclitus. Italy. Pythagoras. Parmenides. Zeno and Melissus. Reinterpreting Parmenides: The Return of the Many. Empedocles. Anaxagoras. Leucippus and Democritus. 3. The Sophists. 4. Socrates. 5. Plato. Plato's Biography. Approaching Philosophy through Dialogues. Literary Background. Settings and Structures. Conversations and Dialectic. Stories and Myths. Socratic Irony. Plato's Philosophy. The Practice of Dying and Being Dead. The Life of Ideas. Truth, Sophistry and Rhetoric. 6. Aristotle. Biography and Writings. Logic. Physics and Change. Psyche: The Life Force of the Soul. Animals. Metaphysics. Ethics and Politics. Rhetoric. Poetics. Nicomachean Ethics: A Closer Reading. An Aristotelian Survival Kit. Epilogue: After Aristotle. Stoics. Skeptics. Epicureans. Neoplatonists. Glossary. Index.