History of Ancient Philosophy

1. First Period: Primitive Cosmology
The Ionian School.........12
The Pythagorean or Italian School...........21
Heraclitus..........33
The Eleatic School .........45
Philosophies of Transition........67
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae...............75
2. Second Period: The Pre-Socratic Crisis
The Atomists........82
The Later Naturalists ..............91
The Sophistic Movement ...............93
Some Important Sophists ............104
3. Third Period Athenian Metaphysics
Socrates and his Historical Problems ......110
The Socratic Schools...............137
Plato..........144
The Spirit of Platonic Philosophy........154
From Rhetorics to the Idea .............172
Platonic Critique of the Doctrine of Ideas .............188
General Examination of PLato`s Philosophical Doctrines.........210
Aristotle .........230
The Evolution of Aristotelian Thought..........245
Aristotles Metaphysics ............258
Physics ........275
Ethics, Logic Politics and Poetics of Aristotle ............284
4. Fourth Period: The Hellenistic and Roman Period
The Academy and the Peripatetic School ........304
Epicureanism ..........312
Stoicism...........324
Scepticism .................339
Roman Philosophy ...........344
5. Fifth Period: Neo-PLatonism
The Origins of Neo-Platonism ..............356
Gnosticism ................367
Neo-PLatonism and its Authors ............382
Later Neo-PLatonists ..........400