A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 16
Chronology......Page 17
Map......Page 27
Introduction......Page 30
Part I Early Greek Philosophy......Page 38
1 The Beginnings of Science and Philosophy in Archaic Greece......Page 40
2 Ancient Philosophy and the Doxographical Tradition......Page 57
3 Parmenides and After: Unity and Plurality 1......Page 71
4 The Concept of the Universal in Some Later Pre-Platonic Cosmologists......Page 93
5 The Sophistic Movement......Page 114
Part II Socrates, the Socratics, and Plato......Page 136
6 Socrates......Page 138
7 Minor Socratics......Page 156
8 The Platonic Dialogue......Page 173
9 Plato ’s Ethics:Early and Middle Dialogues......Page 188
10 Plato’s Political Philosophy: The Republic, the Statesman, and the Laws......Page 207
11 Plato’s Metaphysics and Dialectic......Page 229
12 Plato ’s Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics......Page 249
Part III Aristotle......Page 270
13 The Aristotelian Way......Page 272
14 Aristotle’s Logic and Theory of Science......Page 282
15 Aristotle’s Physics and Cosmology......Page 307
16 Aristotle’s Biology and Aristotle’s Philosophy......Page 329
17 Aristotle ’s Psychology......Page 353
18 First Philosophy in Aristotle......Page 384
19 Aristotle’s Ethics......Page 411
20 Aristotle’s Political Philosophy......Page 430
Part IV Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age......Page 450
21 Philosophic Schools in Hellenistic and Roman Times......Page 452
22 The Problem of Sources......Page 467
23 The New Academy and its Rivals......Page 485
24 Pyrrhonism......Page 502
25 Epicureanism......Page 523
26 Stoic Logic......Page 542
27 Stoic Ethics......Page 567
28 Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism......Page 586
Part V Middle and Late Platonism......Page 596
29 Middle Platonism......Page 598
30 Plotinus......Page 614
31 What was Commentary in Late Antiquity? The Example of the Neoplatonic Commentators......Page 634
Part VI Culture, Philosophy, and the Sciences......Page 660
32 Greek Philosophy and Religion......Page 662
33 Philosophy of Language......Page 677
34 Ancient Medicine and its Contribution to the Philosophical Tradition......Page 701
35 Greek Mathematics (Arithmetic,Geometry, Proportion Theory)to the Time of Euclid......Page 723
Index Locorum......Page 756
Index......Page 793