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This is the story of philosophy in ancient and classical Greece. Robert Brumbaugh brings out the intrinsic and current importance in the development of Western philosophy from Thales to Aristotle. He emphasizes the insights and ideas that have proven crucial to later Western thought and reveals the success of the classical thinkers in forming systematic philosophic syntheses.



This book is a useful introduction to philosophy. The ancient Greek discoveries led to the major systems used by the West today.

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• Introduction
• Ionia And Italy
• I Thales
• Inventor of Physics and Philosophy
• II Anaximander
• The Idea of Neutral Matter
• III Anaximenes
• Change Without Personality
• IV Pythagoras And His School
• The Music of the Spheres
• V Heraclitus
• Time Versus Eternity
• VI Parmenides
• Logic and Mysticism
• VII Zeno Of Elea
• The Paradox of Motion
• VIII Empedocles
• Too Much Imagination
• IX Democritus And The Atomic Theory Materialism
• Athens The School Of Greece
• X Anaxagoras
• Mind Orders All Things
• XI Archelaus
• The First Athenian Scientist
• XII The Sophists
• How to Succeed in Athens
• XIII Socrates
• The Search for the Self
• XIV Plato
• Order, Fact, and Value
• XV Aristotle
• The Organization of All Reality
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Suggestions For Further Reading
• Bibliography
• Index

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Robert S. Brumbaugh is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. A former president of the Metaphysical Society of America, he is the author of many books and articles on classical philosophy.