Preface

Before Socrates

The Milesians

Thales

Anaximander

Anaximenes

Three Solitary Figures

Pythagoras

Xenophanes

Heraclitus

The Eleatics

Parmenides

Zeno of Elea

Melissus

The Pluralists

Empedocles

Anaxagoras

Democritus (and Leucippus)

Two Sophists

Protagoras

Gorgias

Sources of the Fragments

Epologue: Two Views of Athens

Pericles (as reported by Thucydides), Funeral Oration

Thucydides, The Melian Conference

Socrates

Plato

Euthyphro

Apology

Crito

Phaedo

Meno

Symposium

Republic (Book I, 336b-354c; Book II, 367e-376c; Book III, 412b-417b; Book IV, 427c-448e; Book V, complete: 448e-480a; Books VI-VII, 502c-521b)

Parmenides (127--135)

Theaetetus (selections)

Timaeus (27d--34b)

Aristotle

Categories (Chapters 1--5)

On Interpretation (Chapters 1--9)

Posterior Analytics (Book I, 1--2; Book II, 19)

Physics (Book II complete)

Metaphysics (Book I and XII complete)

On the Soul (Book II, 1--3; III, 4--5)

Nichomachean Ethics (Book I--II; III, 1--5; IV, 3; VI--VII; X, 6--8)

Politics (Book I, 1--2; III, 6--9; IV, 11--12; VII, 3b--4, 9)

Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

Epicurus

Letter to Herodotus

Letter to Menoeceus

Principal Doctrines

The Early Stoa: Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes

Zeno of Citium (Selections from Diogenes Laertius)

Hymn to Zeus

Epictetus

Encheiridion (Manual)

Leuretius

On the Nature of Things (Book II, 216--292); III (through 842)

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations (book IV)

Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus

Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1--15)

Plotinus

Enneads (Ennead I, Tractate 6; V, 1; 3:12.9--end)