A Sketch of Ancient Philosophy : From Thales to Cicero (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Pre-Socratic Philosophy of Nature: 1. Ionic school. One ever-changing self-developed universe (dynamical physicism); 2. Italic school. One unchanging self-existent universe (transcendental physicism); 3. Ionico-Italic school. Changing universe formed out of a plurality of unchanging elements (mechanical physicism); Part II. Socrates to Aristotle: Philosophy of Nature and Man: 4. Sophists; 5. BC 470?399, Socrates; 6. Cynics; 7. Cyrenaics; 8. BC 428?347, Plato; 9. BC 385?322, Aristotle; Part III. Post-Aristotelian Philosophy of Man: Characteristics of the Later Philosophy: 10. Peripatetics; 11. Sceptics; 12. Academy old; 13. Academy sceptical (by Cicero called 'new'); 14. Stoicism; 15. Epicureanism; 16. Eclecticism; 17. BC 106?43, Cicero; 18. Concluding reflexions.