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This is the story of philosophy in ancient and classical Greece. Robert Brumbaugh brings out the intrinsic and current importance in the development of Western philosophy from Thales to Aristotle. He emphasizes the insights and ideas that have proven crucial to later Western thought and reveals the success of the classical thinkers in forming systematic philosophic syntheses.
This book is a useful introduction to philosophy. The ancient Greek discoveries led to the major systems used by the West today.
INTRODUCTION
IONIA AND ITALY
I. THALES
Inventor of Physics and Philosophy
II. ANAXIMANDER
The Idea of Neutral Matter
III. ANAXIMENES
Change Without Personality
IV. PYTHAGORAS AND HIS SCHOOL
The Music of the Spheres
V. HERACLITUS
Time Versus Eternity
VI. PARMENIDES
Logic and Mysticism
VII. ZENO OF ELEA
The Paradox of Motion
VIII. EMPEDOCLES
Too Much Imagination
IX. DEMOCRITUS AND THE ATOMIC THEORY
Materialism
ATHENS: THE SCHOOL OF GREECE
X. ANAXAGORAS
Mind Orders All Things
XI. ARCHELAUS
The First Athenian Scientist
XII. THE SOPHISTS
How to Succeed in Athens
XIII. SOCRATES
The Search for the Self
XIV. PLATO
Order, Fact, and Value
XV. ARISTOTLE
The Organization of All Reality
CONCLUSION
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX