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Unit-I:                                                                                                               11

What is Greek Philosophy?                                               
Thales
Water, the origin of Everything
Did Thales believe in the concept of Soul?
Anaximander
The difference between Science and Philosophy
The Indefinite or Unbounded
Anaximenes
Air as the Arche
Influence on Philosophy
Pythagoras
Numbers
The Pythagorean number theory
Heraclitus
The Doctrine of Flux and the Unity of Opposites
Democritus and Parmenides
Atoms and the Void
Questions
Unit-II :                                                                                                           77
Protagoras
Relativism
Man as the measure of all things
Socrates' Method
Development of Socrates' Method
Method
Application of Socrates' Method
Socrates' Virtue
Virtue is Knowledge
Is Socrates a Sophist?
Virtue Ethics
Cardinal Virtue
Questions

Unit-III :                                                                                                         97
*Plato: Knowledge and Opinion
Plato's Life and Times
Plato's Rationalism
Refutation of the Perceptual Theory of Knowledge
Knowledge is not Opinion
Plato's Theory of Knowledge
Some features of Plato's Theory of Knowledge
*Theory of Forms
Introduction
Ideas or Forms: Plato's Approach
Characteristics of Ideas or Forms
The World of Sense & the World of Ideas
Hierarchy of Ideas
Influence of Socrates on Plato
*Justice
Introduction
Plato's theory of Justice
Definition and Nature of Justice
Essence of Justice
Evaluation of theories by Plato
Characteristics of Justice
Types of Justice
Criticism of Plato's theory of Justice
Conclusion
Questions
Unit-IV:                                                                                                        143
*Aristotle: Form and Matter
Introduction
Philosophical Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy
Aristotle's Form and Matter
*Causation
Introduction
Reasons behind Aristotle's 'Four Causes'
Actuality and Potentiality
The importance of actuality in Aristotle's philosophy
Potency and actuality as a real distinction
Potency and Possibility
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