From the Book - First edition.
Good citizen or philosopher ruler?
The inheritors : philosophy in the Hellenistic age
Hole in the soul : Plato and Aristotle in Rome
Dancing in the light : the birth of Neoplatonism
Christ is come : Platonism and Christianity
Inquiring minds : Aristotle strikes back
Celestial harmonies : Plato in the Middle Ages
At the summit : Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle, Machiavelli, and the paradoxes of liberty
The creative ascent : Plato in the high Renaissance
Twilight of the scholastics : the Reformation and the doom of Aristotle
Secrets of the heavens : Plato, Galileo, and the new science
God, kings, and philosophers in the Age of Genius
Aristotle in a periwig : the culture of the Enlightenment
Starting over : Plato, Rousseau, and revolution
"Feeling is all" : the triumph of the Romantics
Victorian crossroads : Hegel, Marx, and Mill
The scale of nature : Darwin, evolution, and Aristotle's God
Unseen worlds : physics, relativity, and the new world picture
Triumph of the will : Nietzsche and the death of reason
Common sense nation : Plato, Aristotle, and American exceptionalism
Worlds at war : Plato and Aristotle in the violent century
From the cave to the light.
