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A PANORAMA 1

ARISTOTLE 3

CHAPTER Ⅰ．ARISTOTLE 3

HIS SYNTHESIS IN ITS HISTORICAL SETTING: 3

On His Predecessors (Metaphysics) 4

PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: 39

How We Are To Conceive Nature and Cause (Physics) 40

PHILOSOPHY OF FIRST PRINCIPLES: 47

Development as Matter Taking on Form (Metaphysics) 48

The Final Cause of Development from the Potential to Actuality (Ibid．) 56

THE FUNCTION OF MAN AND THE TECHNIQUE OF INTELLIGENCE: 59

The Theory of the Good Life (Ethics) 60

Education for Citizenship (Politics) 107

THE LATER ETHICAL PERIOD 111

CHAPTER Ⅱ．THE CYRENAIC-EPICUREAN TRADITION 113

Diogenes Laertius on Epicurus and the Epicureans 114

CHAPTER Ⅲ．THE CYNIC-STOIC TRADITION 154

Diogenes Laertius on Zeno and the Stoics 155

CHAPTER Ⅳ．THE SKEPTICAL CULMINATION 171

Diogenes Laertius on Pyrrho and the Skeptics 172

CHAPTER Ⅴ．THE GREEK AND ROMAN CAREER OF THE ATHENIAN SCHOOLS 184

Cicero on Their Interrelations (Academica) 185

THE ROMANS 202

CHAPTER Ⅵ．ROMAN STOICISM:COSMOPOLITANISM AND CONSOLATION 203

POLYBIUS: 204

On the Philosophy of the Roman Constitution (Histories) 204

CICERO: 213

Justifies His Interest in Philosophy (On the Nature of the Gods) 213

On the Ideal Constitution (The Republic) 216

On Law,Justice,and Reason (Laws) 217

In Final Praise of the Immutable Law (The Republic) 219

SENECA: 219

On Leisure (Moral Essays) 219

On Self-Control (Moral Essays) 223

To Helvia His Mother on Consolation (Moral Essays) 225

EPICTETUS: 229

The Beginning of Wisdom (Discourses) 229

Marks of Improvement (Ibid．) 230

The Role of the Rational (Ibid．) 231

On Providence (Ibid．) 232

On Certain Uses of Piety (Ibid．) 232

On Seeing Things as They Are (Ibid．) 233

Philosophy Looks Within (Encheiridion) 234

On Things That Are within Our Power (Ibid．) 234

Take No Thought of Things (Ibid．) 235

Avoid Ostentation (Ibid．) 235

Fortify Your Minds with These Maxims (Ibid．) 236

MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS: 236

On the Conduct of Life (Meditations) 236

CHAPTER Ⅶ．LUCRETIUS AND AESTHETIC NATURALISM 246

On the Nature of Things (Book Ⅰ) 247

CHAPTER Ⅷ．NEO-PLATONISM:PLOTINUS 279

The One in Relation to the Many (Enneads) 280

The One in Itself (Ibid．) 282

Emanation of Intellect and Soul from the One (Ibid．) 283

Presence and Nature of Matter (Ibid．) 287

Purification through Virtue and Otherwise (Ibid．) 288

Up the Pilgrim Path－to the End (Ibid．) 290