Introduction

Martin Sitte

5-7

On interpreting Plato's Charmides

Seth Benardete

9-36

Metaphysics for lovers

José A. Benardete

37-48

Aristotle's reflections on revolution

Michael Davis

49-63

Basil the great and the choice of Hercules

a note on the christianization of a pagan myth

Ernest L. Fortin

65-81

Isidore of Seville versus Aristotle in the questions on human law and right in the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas

Thomas M. Seebohm

83-105

Two notes on nature

107-110

Kennington's Descartes and Eddington's "Two tables"

Joseph Gonda

111-121

"The first times" in Rousseau's Essay on the origin of languages

Victor Gourevitch

123-146

Kant on the primacy and the limits of logic

Richard Velkley

147-162

The political philosophy of nature

a preface to Goethe's human sciences

163-178