TY - BOOK AU - Composta, Dario TI - History of Ancient Philosophy SN - 9788188821129 U1 - N56 PY - 2020/// CY - Bangalore PB - Theological Publications in India N1 - 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 ER -