Ancient Western philosophy : the Hellenic emergence - McLean, George F.; Aspell, Patrick J. (Washington, D.C. : Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1997)
Myth: prologue to philosophy : The heritage ; The new spirit -- Early cosmological conceptions of reality : The Milesians: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes -- Early mathematical and mystical conceptions of reality : The Pythagoreans -- Early metaphysical conceptions of reality : Heraclitus and Parmenides -- The post-Parmenidean mediators : Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and the atomists -- Development of the Sophist and Socratic philosophies of man : The Sophists and Socrates -- Plato: philosopher of the idea -- Aristotle: philosopher of the actual -- The Hellenistic-Roman philosophy of ethics : The Stoics, Epicureans, and skeptics -- The religious neoplatonism of Plotinus.
Keywords: Philosophy, Ancient