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: Plato 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.
