Greek philosophers.

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:x, 330 p. ; 20 cm.
Language:English
Series:Past masters.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3854074
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Other uniform titles:Taylor, C. C. W. (Christopher Charles Whiston), 1936- Socrates.
Hare, R. M. (Richard Mervyn). Plato.
Barnes, Jonathan, 1942- Aristotle.
ISBN:0192876961 (pbk.)
Notes:Titles previously published separately.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-321) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Life
  • 3. Socratic literature and the Socratic problem
  • 4. Plato's Socrates
  • 5. Socrates and later philosophy
  • 6. Conclusion. Plato (R. M. Hare)
  • 1. Life and Times
  • 2. Plato's forebears
  • 3. How Plato became a philospher
  • 4. Understanding Plato
  • 5. Knowing things
  • 6. Definition, dialectic, and the good
  • 7. Education and the good life
  • 8. The divided mind
  • 9. The authoritarian State
  • 10. Plato's achievement
  • 1. The man and his work
  • 2. A public figure
  • 3. Zoological researches
  • 4. Collecting facts
  • 5. The philosophical background
  • 6. The structure of the science
  • 7. Logic
  • 8. Knowledge
  • 9. Ideal and achievement
  • 10. Reality
  • 11. Change
  • 12. Causes
  • 13. Empiricism
  • 14. Aristotle's world-picture
  • 15. Psychology
  • 16. Evidence and theory
  • 17. Teleology
  • 18. Practical philosophy
  • 19. The arts
  • 20. Afterlife