Table of Contents

Preface; SOCRATES, BY C. C. W. TAYLOR; 1. Introduction; 2. Life; Trial and death; 3. Socratic literature and the Socratic problem; 4. Plato's Socrates; 5. Socrates and later philosophy; 6. Conclusion; PLATO, BY R. M. HARE; 1. Life and times; 2. Plato's forebears; 3. How Plato became a philosopher; 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; ARISTOTLE, BY JONATHAN BARNES; 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 sciences; 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; Chronological table; References and further reading; Index

About the Author

Jonathan Barnes is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Geneva. R. M. Hare is Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Florida. C. C. W. Taylor is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and a Reader in Philosophy at Oxford University.