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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction: On Philosophy as a Way of Life
1. Philosophy Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary
2. What It Means to Live a Philosophy
2 The Socratic Way of Life
1. Ancient Philosophy as Intellectual Pursuit vs. as Way of Life
2. Socrates in Plato’s
3. Socratic Dialectic, Socratic Knowledge, and Human Wisdom
4. Socratic Philosophy as a Way of Life
5. Socrates and the Subsequent Tradition
3 Aristotle: Philosophy as Two Ways of Life
1. Introduction
2. Practical vs. Theoretical Knowledge
3. The Highest Good, Happiness, and Virtue
4. Two Happy Lives, Two Happinesses: The Contemplative and the Practically Active Lives
5. Theoretical vs. Practical Virtue as Highest Good
6. The Practical Virtues: General Account
7. The Specific Practical Virtues
8. Practical Knowledge and Ethical “Theory”
9. Political Community and the Highest Good
10. Conclusion: Philosophy as Two Ways of Life
4 Stoicism as a Way of Life
1. Introduction: The Three Hellenistic Philosophies
2. Stoicism: Tradition and Texts
3. Stoic Eudaimonism
4. Stoic Moral Psychology and the Human Virtues
5. Virtue: Agreement with the World-Mind’s Plans
6. What Is Good vs. What Is Merely of Some Value
7. Consequences of the Stoic Theory of Value
8. Stoic vs. Aristotelian Conceptions of Emotions or Passions
9. The Stoic Way of Life
5 The Epicurean and Skeptic Ways of Life
1. Introduction
2. Epicurus’s Theory of the Human Good: “Kinetic” and “Katastematic” Pleasure
3. The Epicurean Way of Life: Virtue, Irreligion, Friendship
4. The Epicurean Life: Concluding Summary
5. Ancient Skepticism: Living without Believing Anything
6. The Pyrrhonian Skepticism of Sextus Empiricus
7. The Skeptic Way of Life
6 Platonism as a Way of Life
1. Introduction: Pythagoras, Plato, and Ancient Greek Wisdom
2. Plotinus’s Platonist Metaphysics
3. Plotinus’s Theory of the Human Person
4. Three Levels of Human Virtues: “Civic,” “Purifying,” and “Intellectual”
5. Virtue and Happiness
6. Philosophy: The Sole Way Up to Life Itself
7. Epilogue: The Demise of Pagan Philosophy, and of Philosophy as a Way of Life
Further Readings
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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