Table of Contents

I Introduction; II Nature, change, and cause: Natural philosophy before Plato; III Origins of scepticism: Knowledge and belief in early Greek philosophy; IV Knowledge and belief: from Socrates to Scepticism; V Knowledge, belief, and forms: Socrates and Plato; VI Form and matter: Aristotle and Stoicism; VII Knowledge and belief: Answers to Scepticism; VIII Soul and body; IX Free will; X Good, pleasure, and happiness; XI Knowledge and desire in
virtue; XII The good of others; XIII Virtue and happiness; XIV Political theory; XV Philosophy and theology; Index of authors; Further Reading; General Index.

About the Author

Terence Irwin is Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. His books include Plato's Ethics (1995), Aristotle's First Principles (1988), Classical Thought (1988), and editions of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Plato's Gorgias.

Reviews

`The book is overwhelmingly good, and will certainly become a set text in universities throughout the English-speaking world.'
Robin Waterfield, The Heythrop Journal,Vol.41, No.4
`Irwin ... has the ability to communicate the importance and interest of ancient philosophy for beginners in an accessible and lucid fashion, which is highly informative and deeply thoughtful without being dense.'
Robin Waterfield, The Heythrop Journal,Vol.41, No.4
`Commentary is achieved through a series of remarkable introductions ... each edition is a mini-masterpiece of compression.'
Robin Waterfield, The Heythrop Journal, Vol.41, No.4.