Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Early Greek Philosophy: The Pre-Socratics -- Cosmology, Metaphysics, and Epistemology -- The Early Cosmologists -- Being and Becoming -- Appearance and Reality -- Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism -- Skepticism and Relativism: The Sophists -- ch. 2 The Philosophy of Socrates -- His Life and Personality -- Why Was Socrates Hated? -- The Impression Created by Aristophanes -- The Human Resistance to Self-Reflection -- Socrates' Criticism of Democracy -- The Legacy of Socrates -- ch. 3 The Philosophy of Plato -- His Life -- Dialogue Form -- Happiness and Virtue -- The Theory of Forms -- Linguistic and Philosophical Background -- Forms as Perfect Exemplars -- Forms as Genera and Species -- The Dialogues of Plato -- Early Dialogues -- Middle Dialogues -- Late Dialogues -- ch. 4 The Philosophy of Aristotle -- His Life -- The Academy -- Travels -- The Lyceum -- His Philosophy -- Logic -- Physics and Metaphysics -- Philosophy of Mind -- Ethics --

Contents note continued: Political Theory -- Rhetoric and Poetics -- The Legacy of Aristotle -- ch. 5 Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy -- Stoicism -- The Nature and Scope of Stoicism -- Early Greek Stoicism -- Later Roman Stoicism -- Epicureanism -- The Nature of Epicureanism -- The Works and Doctrine of Epicurus -- Skepticism -- Pythagoreanism and Neo-Pythagoreanism -- Neoplatonism -- Plotinus and His Philosophy -- The Later Neoplatonists -- ch. 6 Jewish and Christian Philosophy in the Ancient World -- Philo Judaeus -- Life and Background -- Works -- The Originality of His Thought -- Saint Ambrose -- Early Career -- Ecclesiastical Administrative Accomplishments -- Literary and Musical Accomplishments -- Evaluations and Interpretations -- Saint Augustine -- Life -- Chief Works -- Augustine's Spirit and Achievement -- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius.