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Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1

Full title: Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780198767039
ISBN 10: 019876703X
Authors: Adamson, Peter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: Reprint
Num. pages: 368
Binding: Paperback
Language: en
Published on: 2016

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Synopsis

Early Greek Philosophy -- Socrates And Plato -- Aristotle. Part 1: Early Greek Philosophy. -- 1. Everything Is Full Of Gods : Thales -- 2. Infinity And Beyond : Anaximander And Anaximenes -- 3. Created In Our Image : Xenophanes -- 4. The Man With The Golden Thigh : Pythagoras -- 5. Old Man River : Heraclitus -- 6. The Road Less Traveled : Parmenides -- 7. You Can't Get There From Here : The Eleatics -- 8. The Final Cut : The Atomists -- 9. Mind Over Mixture : Anaxagoras -- 10. All You Need Is Love, And Five Other Things : Empedocles -- 11. Good Humor Men : The Hippocratic Corpus -- 12. Making The Weaker Argument The Stronger : The Sophists -- Part 2: Socrates And Plato. -- 13. Socrates Without Plato : The Portrayals Of Aristophanes And Xenophon -- 14. Method Man : Plato's Socrates -- 15. In Dialogue : The Life And Writings Of Plato -- 16. Know Thyself : Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues -- 17. Virtue Meets Its Match : Plato's Gorgias -- 18. We Don't Need No Education : Plato's Meno -- 19. I Know, Because The Caged Bird Sings : Plato's Theaetetus -- 20. Famous Last Words : Plato's Phaedo -- 21. Soul And The City : Justice In Plato's Republic -- 22. Ain't No Sunshine : The Cave Allegory Of Plato's Republic -- 23. Second Thoughts : Plato's Parmenides And The Forms -- 24. Untying The Not : Plato's Sophist -- 25. What's In A Name? : Plato's Cratylus -- 26. A Likely Story : Plato's Timaeus -- 27. Wings Of Desire : Plato's Erotic Dialogues -- 28. Last Judgments : Plato, Poetry, And Myth -- Part 3: Aristotle. -- 29. Mr Know It All : Aristotle's Life And Works -- 30. The Philosopher's Toolkit -- 31. A Principled Stand : Aristotle's Epistemology -- 32. Down To Earth : Aristotle On Substance -- 33. Form And Function : Aristotle's Four Causes -- 34. Let's Get Physical : Aristotle's Natural Philosophy -- 35. Soul Power : Aristotle's On The Soul -- 36. Classified Information : Aristotle's Biology -- 37. The Goldilocks Theory : Aristotle's Ethics -- 38. The Second Self : Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship -- 39. God Only Knows : Aristotle On Mind And God -- 40. Constitutional Conventions : Aristotle's Political Philosophy -- 41. Stage Directions : Aristotle's Rhetoric And Poetics -- 42. Anything You Can Do : Women And Ancient Philosophy -- 43. The Next Generation : The Followers Of Plato And Aristotle. Peter Adamson. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 330-340) And Index.