SUMMARY OF CONTENTS List of Contents vii Map x Introduction xi Beginnings: From Pythagoras to Plato Schools of Thought: From Aristotle to Augustine How to Argue: Logic 116 Knowledge and its Limits: Epistemology How Things Happen: Physics What There Is: Metaphysics Soul and Mind 199 229 How to Live: Ethics God 178 257 289 Chronology 317 List of Abbreviations and Conventions Bibliography 323 List of Illustrations 331 Index 335 319 145 65