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Contents 8 Map 11 Introduction 12 1. Beginnings: From Pythagoras to Plato 24 The Four Causes 24 The Milesians 27 The Pythagoreans 32 Xenophanes 34 Heraclitus 35 Parmenides and the Eleatics 40 Empedocles 43 Anaxagoras 47 The Atomists 49 The Sophists 51 Socrates 55 The Socrates of Xenophon 58 The Socrates of Plato 60 Socrates’ Own Philosophy 64 From Socrates to Plato 68 The Theory of Ideas 72 Plato’s Republic 79 The Laws and the Timaeus 83 2. Schools of Thought: From Aristotle to Augustine 88 Aristotle in the Academy 88 Aristotle the Biologist 92 The Lyceum and its Curriculum 96 Aristotle on Rhetoric and Poetry 98 Aristotle’s Ethical Treatises 102 Aristotle’s Political Theory 105 Aristotle’s Cosmology 110 The Legacy of Aristotle and Plato 112 Aristotle’s School 114 Epicurus 117 Stoicism 119 Scepticism in the Academy 123 Lucretius 124 Cicero 126 Judaism and Christianity 127 The Imperial Stoa 129 Early Christian Philosophy 132 The Revival of Platonism and Aristotelianism 134 Plotinus and Augustine 135 3. How to Argue: Logic 139 Aristotle’s Syllogistic 140 The de Interpretatione and the Categories 146 Aristotle on Time and Modality 152 Stoic Logic 159 4. Knowledge and its Limits: Episte

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Author
Kenny, Anthony
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Rating
3.97 / 5 (170 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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