There are plenty of great books available for this purpose, and such survey is standard fare for philosophy courses in college or on YouTube. Nor would it be beneficial to survey all the disagreements between various important philosophers. We want to ask a bigger question, not just, What happened in the history of philosophy? but rather, What is ancient philosophy?5 My desire is not to present a potted history of philosophy but to get at the heart of what ancient philosophy was all about. Why was
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