The first philosopher The soul of reason The mind of God The doctor's son Good citizen or philosopher king? The inheritors : philosophy in the Hellenistic age Knowledge is power Hole in the soul : Plato and Aristotle in Rome Dancing in the light Christ is come : Platonism and Christianity Ward the Heavenly City Inquiring minds : Aristotle strikes back Celestial harmonies : Plato in the Middle Ages At the summit : Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas The razor's edge 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 Aristotle's 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 the mind of Aristotle