TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 4 THE PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE -- HIS LIFE -- THE ACADEMY -- TRAVELS -- THE LYCEUM -- HIS PHILOSOPHY -- LOGIC -- PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS -- PHILOSOPHY OF MIND -- ETHICS -- POLITICAL THEORY -- RHETORIC AND POETICS -- THE LEGACY OF ARISTOTLE -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 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.

CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SOCRATES, PLATO, AND ARISTOTLE -- HISTORIES -- TEXTS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.