The Handy Western Philosophy Answer Book: The Ancient Greek Influence on Modern Understanding Ed D'Angelo ©2020 ISBN (9781578595563) available from Visible Ink Press in September 2020 Contents Introduction I. The Basics II. Philosophy before Socrates Thales Anaximander Anaximenes Heraclitus Empedocles Anaxagoras and Archelaus The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus The Eleatic School: Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus Pythagoras The Sophists III. Socrates and Plato Socratic Ethics The Socratic Method Plato's Academy Plato's Theory of Knowledge Plato's Theory of Forms The Analogies of the Sun and the Divided Line Plato's Theory of the Cosmos Plato's Mathematical and Musical Theory of the Cosmos Plato's Ethics Platonic Love Plato's Theory of Justice Plato's Model of an Ideal Society Plato's Philosophy of Education Plato's Theory of the Just City-State Plato's Theory of the Soul The Allegory of the Cave The Inevitable Degeneration of the Just City-State It Is Better To Be Just Than Unjust IV. Aristotle and the Age of Alexander the Great Greek History in the Age of Aristotle and Alexander the Great Aristotle's Political Views Plutarch, Arrian, and Eratosthenes Alexander the Great and Greek Philosophy Aristotle's Life after his Departure from Plato's Academy Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge Aristotle's Writings Aristotle's Revision of Plato's Theory of Forms Aristotle's Logic Aristotle's Theory of the Cosmos Aristotle's Theory of Change and the Four Causes Aristotle's Theory of the Soul Aristotle's Ethics Aristotle's Concepts of Love and Friendship Aristotle's Social and Political Philosophy V. Hellenistic Philosophy The Museum of Alexandria The Stoic Theory of the Cosmos and of What Exists The Epicurean Theory of Physics and of What Exists The Epicurean Theory of Knowledge Epicurean Ethics The Epicurean Theory of the Soul The Epicurean Theory of Religion and the Gods Epicurean Psychiatry The Cyrenaic School of Hedonism Cynicism The Megarian and Dialectical Schools of Philosophy Stoicism Stoic Logic Stoic Theory of Knowledge The Stoic Theory of the Soul or Psyche Stoic Ethics The Social and Political Philosophy of the Stoics Academic Skepticism Pyrrhonist Skepticism VI. Philosophy since the Twentieth Century The Main Schools of Philosophy Analytic Philosophy Continental Philosophy Bibliography Glossary