CONTENTS
Introduction THE PROBLEM . . • . 3
PART I
THE ACADEMY
Chapter I THE ACADEMY AT THE TIME OF ARISTOTLE’S ENTRANCE............................................11
Chapter II EARLY WORKS . . . . .24
Chapter III THE EUDEMUS . ... 39
Chapter IV THE PROTREPTICUS . .54
PART II
TRAVELS
Chapter V ARISTOTLE IN ASSOS AND MACEDONIA . . 105
Chapter VI THE MANIFESTO ON PHILOSOPHY . . 124
Chapter VII THE EARLIEST META PHYSICS . 167
Chapter VIII THE GROWTH OF THE META PHYSICS 194
Chapter IX THE ORIGINAL ETHICS . . . .228
Chapter X THE ORIGINAL POLITICS . . .259
Chapter XI THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECULATIVE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY , . . . . . .293
PART III
MATURITY
Chapter XII ARISTOTLE IN ATHENS . . . .311
Chapter XIII THE ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH . 324
Chapter XIV THE REVISION OF THE THEORY OF THE PRIME
MOVER . . . . . 342
Chapter XV ARISTOTLE’S PLACE IN HISTORY . 368
APPENDIXES
I Diocles of Carystus A New Pupil of Aristotle 407
II On the Origin and Cycle of the Philosophic Ideal of Life 426
INDEXES 463
