1. Crito Visits Socrates in Prison
2. Dream of Socrates
3. Crito Fears Public Opinion
4. Crito Has Money for Escape
5. Crito Urges Socrates to Escape
6. Socrates Suggests Reasoning
7. Only Knowledgeable Opinion Good
8. Living Justly Is Best
9. Is Escaping Right?
10. We Must Not Do Wrong
11. Should We Wrong the State?
12. The Laws Ask for Respect
13. Laws Say Obey or Persuade
14. The State's Arguments
15. What Escape Would Be Like
16. Escape Would Break Laws
17. They Agree with the Arguments
Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus
Authoritative Doctrines of Epicurus
Pronouncements of Epicurus
Quotations of Epicurus
Contents
Introduction
Harmony 1
Synthesis 1
Interpretation 1
Index to Gospel Passages
Book I Philosophy's Diagnosis
I. "Songs Which Once I Wrote"
1. A Woman Comes and Sends Away Muses
II. "Alas, How Immersed in the Deep"
2. She Attends to the Author
III. "Then with Night Dispelled"
3. Philosophy Accepts Challenges
IV. "Everyone Clear in an Orderly Age"
4. Political Intrigues
V. "O Builder of the Starry Orbit"
5. His Emotional Disturbance
VI. "When with Severe Rays of the Sun"
6. Philosophy Diagnoses Him
VII. "Stars Concealed"Book II Fortune and Happiness
1. The Mutable Nature of Fortune
I. "As Her Arrogant Right Hand"
2. Fortune Pleads Her Case
II. "If the Roused Sea Turns Up"
3. His Good Fortunes
III. "When by the Pole the Sun"
4. Fortune and Happiness
IV. "Whoever Wishes to Build"
5. Material Goods
V. "Happy the Very Great Previous Age"
6. Positions and Power
VI. "We Know How Many Ruins It Yielded"
7. Glory and Fame
VII. "Whoever Alone by Headlong Mind Seeks"
8. Adversity Better than Fortune
VIII. "Because the Universe by Steady Faith"Book III Philosophy and Happiness
1. Philosophy Promises Happiness
I. "Whoever Wants to Plant"
2. The Highest Good
II. "How Many Reins of Things"
3. Wealth and Need
III. "Although Rich"
4. Positions and Respect
IV. "However Much the Arrogant Nero"
5. Royalty and Power
V. "Whoever Wishes Oneself to be Powerful"
6. Glory and Nobility
VI. "The Birth of Every Person on Earth"
7. Pleasures and Family
VII. "Every Pleasure Has This"
8. False Motives to Happiness
VIII. "Alas, What Ignorance Leads Away"
9. The Unity of True Good
IX. "O You Who Rule the Universe"
10. God is the Good and Happiness
X. "Come Here Equally All the Caught"
11. Everything Seeks the Good
XI. "Whoever with a Deep Mind"
12. God Guides All by Goodness
XII. "Happy, the One Who Can See"Book IV Good and Bad
1. Why Does Bad Prosper?
I. "In Fact Swift Wings are Mine"
2. Only the Good Have Power
II. "Those Eminent Kings You See"
3. Good Rewarded, Bad Punished
III. "The Sails of Ithaca's Leader"
4. Unpunished Bad are Wretched
IV. "Why is One Glad to Excite"
5. Rewards and Punishments Seem Accidental
V. "If Someone is Ignorant of Arcturus"
6. Providence and Fate
VI. "If You Wish to Discern the Laws"
7. All Fortune is Good
VII. "Wars for Twice Five Years Occupied"Book V Freedom and Omniscience
1. Philosophy Discusses Chance
I. "In Persian Rock Cliffs"
2. Freedom of Will Varies
II. "It Oversees All"
3. What About Foreknowledge and Freedom?
III. "What Discordant Cause Released"
4. Divine Intelligence Reconciles Them
IV. "Formerly the Stoics Brought Forth"
5. The Highest Intelligence
V. "In How Many Varied Shapes"
6. The Eternal Knows All
Introduction to Muhammad and the Qur'an
1. The Opening
93. Bright Morning
103. Passing Time
106. Quraysh
112. Sincerity
99. The Earthquake
90. The Land
68. The Pen
107. Charity
76. Man
75. The Resurrection
35. The Angels
67. Sovereignty
30. The Roman Empire
42. Counsel
29. The Spider
31. Luqman
17. The Night Journey
64. Loss and Gain
65. Divorce
61. The Ranks
66. Forbidding
57. Iron
110. Help