The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface by Patricia Williams ix Introduction by Myles Burnyeat xiii Greek: General
Chapter One: The Legacy of Greek Philosophy 3 Chapter Two: The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics 49 Chapter Three: Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology 60 Socrates and Plato
Chapter Four: Pagan Justice and Christian Love 71 Chapter Five: Introduction to Plato´s Theaetetus 83 Chapter Six: Plato against the Immoralist 97 Chapter Seven: The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato´s Republic 108 Chapter Eight: Plato´s Construction of Intrinsic Goodness 118 Chapter Nine: Cratylus´ Theory of Names and Its Refutation 138 Chapter Ten: Plato: The Invention of Philosophy 148 Aristotle
Chapter Eleven: Acting as the Virtuous Person Acts 189 Chapter Twelve: Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch 198 Chapter Thirteen: Justice as a Virtue 207 Chapter Fourteen: Hylomorphism 218 Descartes
Chapter Fifteen: Descartes´ Use of Scepticism 231 Chapter Sixteen: Introductory Essay on Descartes´ Meditations 246 Chapter Seventeen: Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy 257 Hume
Chapter Eighteen: Hume on Religion 267 Sidgwick
Chapter Nineteen: The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and the Ambitions of Ethics 277 Nietzsche Chapter Twenty: Nietzsche´s Minimalist Moral Psychology 299 Chapter Twenty-One: Introduction to The Gay Science 311 Chapter Twenty-Two: "There are many kinds of eyes" 325 Chapter Twenty-Three: Unbearable Suffering 331 R. G. Collingwood
Chapter Twenty-Four: An Essay on Collingwood 341 Wittgenstein
Chapter Twenty-Five: Wittgenstein and Idealism 361 Bernard Williams: Complete Philosophical Publications 381