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