CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. KNOWLEDGE
6. CHAPTER 1. Method and Science in On Ancient Medicine 3
7. CHAPTER 2. Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184–186) 43
8. CHAPTER 3. Plato, Isocrates, and Cicero on the Independence of Oratory from Philosophy 65
9. CHAPTER 4. Arcesilaus: Socratic and Skeptic 81
10. NATURE
11. CHAPTER 5. Aristotle on Natural Teleology 107
12. CHAPTER 6. Hypothetical Necessity 130
13. CHAPTER 7 Two Notes on Aristotle on Mixture 148
14. CHAPTER 8 Metaphysics in Aristotle’s Embryology 174
15. CHAPTER 9 Stoic Autonomy 204
16. THE GOOD
17. CHAPTER 10. Two Theories of Justice 247
18. CHAPTER 11. Plato and Aristotle on “Finality” and “(Self-)Sufficiency” 270
19. CHAPTER 12. Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Seneca 309
20. CHAPTER 13. Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Marcus Aurelius 335
21. Bibliography 369
22. Index of Passages 381
23. General Index 397