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sigma; "hule" - upsilon with rough breathing mark, lambda, eta.

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I.--THE SCHOOL OF MILETUS-- I. Thales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. Anaximander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

II.--THE SCHOOL OF MILETUS (concluded)-- III. Anaximenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 IV. Heraclitus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

III.--PYTHAGORAS AND THE PYTHAGOREANS . . . . . . . . . 22

IV.--THE ELEATICS-- I. Xenophanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 II. Parmenides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

V.--THE ELEATICS (concluded)-- III. Zeno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 IV. Melissus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

VI.--THE ATOMISTS-- I. Anaxagoras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

VII.--THE ATOMISTS (continued)-- II. Empedocles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

VIII.--THE ATOMISTS (concluded)-- III. Leucippus and Democritus . . . . . . . . . . 74

IX.--THE SOPHISTS-- I. Protagoras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

X.--THE SOPHISTS (concluded)-- II. Gorgias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

XI.--SOCRATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

XII.--SOCRATES (concluded) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

XIII.--THE INCOMPLETE SOCRATICS-- I. Aristippus and the Cyrenaics . . . . . . . . 124 II. Antisthenes and the Cynics . . . . . . . . . 128 III. Euclides and the Megarics . . . . . . . . . . 132

XIV.--PLATO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

XV.--PLATO (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

XVI.--PLATO (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

XVII.--PLATO (concluded) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

XVIII.--ARISTOTLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

XIX.--ARISTOTLE (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

XX.--ARISTOTLE (concluded) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

XXI.--THE SCEPTICS AND EPICUREANS . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

XXII.--THE STOICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

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