CONTENTS

1: Pre-Socratics                                           11
1. Introduction
2. The Development of Philosophy
3. Greek Thoughts and Way of Life
4. Science and Culture
5. Periods of Greek Philosophy
6. Pre-Socratic: The Milesian School
7. Problem of Substance
8. Problem of Change
9. Thales.
10. The Cosmology of Thales
11. Water, the basic substance
12. Anaximander
13. Matter as the substance
14. Evolution of the Universe
15. Anaximenes
16. Problem of Reality-three Milesian Philosopher's view
17. The Eleatic School
18. Parmenides
19. The way of Truth and the way of opinion
20. The perception of Reality
21. Nature of Being22. Zeno
23. Arguments against Multiplicity and Motion (Paradores
24. Conclusion of Eleatic School
25. The Physicists
26. Heracleitus
27. The Problem of Change and universal Flux
28. Empedocles
29. The Process of Creation
30. The four periods
31. Exercises- Questions.
1/2 Marks, 5/10 Marks
II: Sophists and Socrates                                61
1. The Sophist
2. Protagoras
3. Sense Organs and Reason - An analysis
4. Individual Truth and Objective Truth
5. Gorgias
6. Sophist Ethics
7. Socrates
8. Life and death
9. Socrate's Method
10. Salient features of Dialectic Method of Socrates
11. Socrate's virtue
12. Questions 1/2 Marks, 5/10 Marks
III: Plato                                                              79
1. Plato
2. Life and Works of Plato
3. 3 Periods
4. Dialogues
5. Epistemology
6. Theory of knowledge: Knowledge and Opinion
7. Nature of knowledge: 4 Segments
8. Theory of Forms
9. Form of the Good
10. Plato's theory of Justice
11. Characteristics of Justice
IV: Aristotle                                                    109
1. Aristotle
2. Works of Aristotle
3. Metaphysics
4. Forms and Matter
5. Causation
6. Actuality and Potentiality
7. Theology
8. Questions 1/2 Marks, 5/10 Marks