Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction/ Shields, Christopher
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Routledge, 2012Edition: 2nd EdnDescription: 245 PISBN: 9780415896603DDC classification: 180Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 180 SHI/A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P42298 |
1 Philosophy before Socrates
1.1 Thales and the earliest natural philosophers
1.2 Xenophanes
1.3 Heracleitus
1.4 Parmenides and Zeno
1.5 Democritus and fifth-century atomism
1.6 Protagoras and the Sophistic Movement
1.7 Challenges from the Presocratics and Sophists
Suggestions for additional readings
2 Socrates
2.1 The Socratic elenchus
2.2 The failures of Meno and Euthyphro
2.3 Socratic ignorance and Socratic irony
2.4 Socratic conviction and the Socratic paradoxes
2.5 Socrates on trial and in prison
2.6 Conclusions
Suggestions for additional readings
3 Plato
3.1 From Socrates to Plato
3.2 Meno's paradox of inquiry; Plato's response
3.3 Tv^o functions of Plato's theory of Forms
3.4 Plato's rejection of relativism
3.5 Three arguments for Forms
3.6 Plato's general characterizations of Forms
3.7 Platonic analysis: a case study
3.8 The special role of the Form of the Good
3.9 Plato's line and cave: our epistemic prospects
3.10 Problems about Forms
3.1 I Conclusions
Suggestions for additional readings
4 Aristotle
4.1 From Plato to Aristotle
4.2 Aristotle's introduction of category theory
4.3 The four causes introduced
4.4 The four causes defended
4.5 The four causes applied: soul and body
4.6 The four causes applied: happiness and the human
function
4.7 The virtues of a happy person
4.8 Aristotle's treatment of a Socratic paradox; akrasia
4.9 Aristotle on philosophical analysis: homonymy
4.10 Conclusions
Suggestions for additional readings
5 Hellenistic philosophy
5.1 The Hellenistic period
5.2 The Epicureans
5.3 The Stoics
5.4 Skepticism
5.5 Conclusions
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