Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Volume 1

Preface

Early Greek Philosophy
1: Everything is Full of Gods: Thales
2: Infinity and Beyond: Anaximander and Anaximines
3: Created in Our Image: Xenophanes
4: The Man with the Golden Thigh: Pythagoras
5: Old Man River: Heraclitus
6: The Road Less Traveled: Parmenides
7: You Can't Get There From Here: the Eleatics
8: The Final Cut: The Atomists
9: Mind over mixture: Anaxagoras
10: All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles
11: Good Humor Men: the Hippocratic Corpus
12: Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger: The Sophists
Socrates and Plato
13: Socrates Without Plato: The Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon
14: Method Man: Plato's Socrates
15: In Dialogue: The Life and Writings of Plato
16: Know Thyself: Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues
17: Virtue Meets its Match: Plato's Gorgias
18: We Don't Need No Education: Plato's Meno
19: I Know, Because the Caged Bird Sings: Plato's Theaetetus
20: Famous Last Words: Plato's Phaedo
21: Soul and the City: Justice in Plato's Republic
22: Ain't No Sunshine: the Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic
23: Second Thoughts: Plato's Parmenides and the Forms
24: Untying the Not: Plato's Sophist
25: What's in a Name?: Plato's Cratylus
26: A Likely Story: Plato's Timaeus
27: Wings of Desire: Plato's Erotic Dialogues
28: Last Judgments: Plato, Poetry, and Myth
Aristotle
29: Mr Know it All: Aristotle's Life and Works
30: The Philosopher's Toolkit: Aristotle's Logical Works
31: A Principled Stand: Aristotle's Epistemology
32: Down to Earth: Aristotle on Substance
33: Form and Function: Aristotle's Four Causes
34: Let's Get Physical: Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
35: Soul Power: Aristotle's De Anima
36: Classified Information: Aristotle's Biology
37: The Goldilocks Theory: Aristotle's Ethics
38: The Second Self: Aristotle on Pleasure and Friendship
39: God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God
40: Constitutional Conventions: Aristotle's Political Philosophy
41: Stage Directions: Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics
42: Anything You Can Do: Women and Ancient Philosophy
43: The Next Generation: The Followers of Plato and Aristotle

Guide to Further Reading

Peter Adamson received his BA from Williams College and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He worked at King's College London from 2000 until 2012. He subsequently moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy, and is the host of the History of Philosophy podcast.

Jonardon Ganeri is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of Attention, Not Self (2017), The Self (2012), The Lost Age of Reason (2011), and The Concealed Art of the Soul (2007). Ganeri's work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. He became the first philosopher to win the Infosys Prize in the Humanities in 2015.