Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, Volume I

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First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision of Philosophic Classics continues the tradition of providing generations of students with high quality course material. Using the complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections of works, this anthology allows philosophers to speak directly to students. Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface BEFORE SOCRATES THE MILESIANS Thales Anaximander Anaximenes THREE SOLITARY FIGURES Pythagoras Xenophanes Heraclitus THE MONISTS Parmenides Zeno of Elea THE PLURALISTS Empedocles Anaxagoras Democritus (and Leucippus) THREE SOPHISTS Protagoras Gorgias Critias EPILOGUE I: TWO VIEWS OF ATHENS THUCYDIDES Pericles’ Funeral Oration The Melian Conference EPILOGUE II: ASPASIA PLATO Euthyphro Apology Crito Phaedo Meno Symposium (189c–193d; 201d–end (223d)) Republic (Book I, 336b–349b, 350d–354b; Book II, 357a–362c, 368e–376d; Book III, 386b–d, 387b–388e, 412b–417b; Book IV, 427d–445e; Book V, complete: 449–480a; Book VI– VII, 502c–521b; Book VIII, 562a–563e) Parmenides (127a–135d) Theaetetus (selections) Timaeus (27d–34b) Laws (selections) ARISTOTLE Categories (Chapters 1–5) On Interpretation (Chapters 1–9) Posterior Analytics ( Book I, 1–2; Book II, 19) Physics ( Book II complete) Metaphysics ( Books I and XII complete) On the Soul ( Book II, 1–3; Book III, 4–5) Nicomachean Ethics ( Book I–II; Book III, 1–5; Book IV, 3; Books VI–VII; Book X, 6–8, 9) Politics ( Book I, 1–2; Book III, 6–9; Book IV, 11–12; Book VII, 3b–4, 9) Poetics (Chapter 6) HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY EPICURUS Letter to Herodotus Letter to Menoeceus Principal Doctrines LUCRETIUS On the Nature of Things ( Book Two, 216–284; Book Three, selections through 831) THE EARLY STOA Zeno of Citium (selections from Diogenes Laertius) Cleanthes—Hymn to Zeus EPICTETUS Handbook (Enchiridion) MARCUS AURELIUS Meditations ( Book IV) PYRRHO AND SEXTUS EMPIRICUS Outlines of Pyrrhonism ( Book I, 1–13) PLOTINUS Enneads ( I, Tractate 6; V, Tractate 1, 1–12)