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Providing a succinct but informative historical sketch of Greek philosophy, B. C. Burt’s work introduces readers to all of the major figures in Greek philosophy and includes preeminent figures such as Plato and Aristotle, and other figures such as Diogenes Laertius, Zeno, and Epictetus.

the “elements” of reality. This latter conception of nature we shall have occasion to examine when we reach Aristotle. The Socratic theory, which is theological (in not the largest sense) rather than philosophical, is the beginning, historically speaking, of what is commonly termed Natural Theology. .—Coming now to the doctrines that are most characteristically Socratic,1 we find the first and most important to be this: All virtue
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