The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Greek: General......Page 24
ONE: The Legacy of Greek Philosophy......Page 26
TWO: The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics......Page 72
THREE: Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology......Page 83
Socrates and Plato......Page 92
FOUR: Pagan Justice and Christian Love......Page 94
FIVE: Introduction to Plato's Theaetetus......Page 106
SIX: Plato against the Immoralist......Page 120
SEVEN: The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic......Page 131
EIGHT: Plato's Construction of Intrinsic Goodness......Page 141
NINE: Cratylus' Theory of Names and Its Refutation......Page 161
TEN: Plato: The Invention of Philosophy......Page 171
Aristotle......Page 210
ELEVEN: Acting as the Virtuous Person Acts......Page 212
TWELVE: Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch......Page 221
THIRTEEN: Justice as a Virtue......Page 230
FOURTEEN: Hylomorphism......Page 241
Descartes......Page 252
FIFTEEN: Descartes' Use of Scepticism......Page 254
SIXTEEN: Introductory Essay on Descartes' Meditations......Page 269
SEVENTEEN: Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy......Page 280
Hume......Page 288
EIGHTEEN: Hume on Religion......Page 290
Sidgwick......Page 298
NINETEEN: The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and the Ambitions of Ethics......Page 300
Nietzsche......Page 320
TWENTY: Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology......Page 322
TWENTY-ONE: Introduction to The Gay Science......Page 334
TWENTY-TWO: "There are many kinds of eyes"......Page 348
TWENTY-THREE: Unbearable Suffering......Page 354
R. G. Collingwood......Page 362
TWENTY-FOUR: An Essay on Collingwood......Page 364
Wittgenstein......Page 382
TWENTY-FIVE: Wittgenstein and Idealism......Page 384
Bernard Williams: Complete Philosophical Publications......Page 404