Table of Contents

Prologue xii

1 An Introduction to Philosophy 1

2 Alone or With Others? 27

3 What Should We Do? 65

4 Whom Should We Emulate? (1) 98

5 Whom Should We Emulate? (2) 127

6 What Do You Know? 145

7 Being in Time 175

Epilogue 206

Works Cited 209

Index 214

About the Author

David Roochnik is the Maria Stata Professor of Classical Greek Studies at Boston University, and is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching. His books include Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis (2013), Retrieving the Ancients: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy (Blackwell, 2004), Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato's Republic (2003), Art and Wisdom: Plato's Understanding of Techne (1996) and The Tragedy of Reason: Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos (1991).