From the beginning to Plato. Routledge History of Philosophy, 1

This volume covers one of the most remarkable periods in human thought. In the space of two and a half centuries, philosophy developed from quasi-mythological speculation to a state in which many of the most fundamental questions about the universe, the mind, and human behaviour were vigorously pursued, and where some of the most enduring masterworks of Western thought were written. The essays in this volume present the fundamental approaches and thinkers of Greek philosophy in chronological order. From an introduction to the polis to the lasting contribution of Plato, each essay takes account of the large amount of work done on Platonic and pre-Platonic philosophy.
Contents: 1. The Polis and its culture 2. The Ionians 3. Heraclitus 4. Pythagoreans and Eleatics 5. Empedocles 6. Anaxagoras and the atomists 7. The Sophists 8. Greek arithmetic, geometry and harmonics: Thales to Plato 9. Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy 10. Plato: metaphysics and epistemology 11. Plato: ethics and politics 12. Plato: aesthetics and psychology.