TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface by Patricia Williams ix
Introduction by Myles Burnyeat xiii
Greek: General Chapter One: The Legacy of Greek Philosophy 3
Chapter Two: The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics 49
Chapter Three: Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology 60
Socrates and Plato Chapter Four: Pagan Justice and Christian Love 71
Chapter Five: Introduction to Plato's Theaetetus 83
Chapter Six: Plato against the Immoralist 97
Chapter Seven: The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic 108
Chapter Eight: Plato's Construction of Intrinsic Goodness 118
Chapter Nine: Cratylus' Theory of Names and Its Refutation 138
Chapter Ten: Plato: The Invention of Philosophy 148
Aristotle Chapter Eleven: Acting as the Virtuous Person Acts 189
Chapter Twelve: Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch 198
Chapter Thirteen: Justice as a Virtue 207
Chapter Fourteen: Hylomorphism 218
Descartes Chapter Fifteen: Descartes' Use of Scepticism 231
Chapter Sixteen: Introductory Essay on Descartes' Meditations 246
Chapter Seventeen: Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy 257
Hume Chapter Eighteen: Hume on Religion 267
Sidgwick Chapter Nineteen: The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and the Ambitions of Ethics 277
Nietzsche Chapter Twenty: Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology 299
Chapter Twenty-One: Introduction to The Gay Science 311
Chapter Twenty-Two: "There are many kinds of eyes" 325
Chapter Twenty-Three: Unbearable Suffering 331
R. G. Collingwood Chapter Twenty-Four: An Essay on Collingwood 341
Wittgenstein Chapter Twenty-Five: Wittgenstein and Idealism 361
Bernard Williams: Complete Philosophical Publications 381
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