An Introduction to Philosophy The Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition

includes index and biblioraphy

1 What is philosophy ....3 Part I: The historical rise of philosophy ....9 2 The first beginnings of philosophy ....11 3 The problem of change and permanence ...17 4 The age of the sophists ....23 5 Socrates .....29 6 Plato ....39 7 A ristole ....48 Part II The meaning of man ....59 8 The nature of man ....61 9 The nature of knowing ....67 10 The kinds of knowing ....75 11 The truth of knowing ...85 12 The nature of desire ....95 13 Freedom and liberty ...106 14 Liberty and love ....113 15 The soul of man ...119 16 Human personality ....131 Part III The making of man ....135 17 In search of happiness ...137 18 The road to happiness ...147 19 The life of virtue ...157 20 The virtues of the individual person ....168 21 Justice, the social virture ...177 22 Social philosophy ...184 Part IV The universe of man ....193 23 The world of bodies ...195 24 The realm of nature ...204 Part V The universe of being ....209 25 In quest of being ...211 26 Transcendentals of being ...218 27 The divisions of being ...230 28 Uncreated being ...244 Conclusion ....259 29 The perennial philosophy ....261