1Title Page
10Chapter 8: Anaxagoras and the Power of Mind
2Preface
11Chapter 9: The Atomists - Democritus and the Dance of Atoms
3Chapter 1: From Myth to Reason - The Birth of Philosophy in Ancient Greece
12Chapter 10: Pythagoras and the Harmony of Numbers
4Chapter 2: Thales the Water-Seeker - Everything Flows from One Source
13Chapter 11: The Sophists - Masters of Words and Relativism
5Chapter 3: Anaximander's Infinite - The Boundless Source of All Things
14Chapter 12: Fragments and Reconstructions - Piecing Together Lost Worlds
6Chapter 4: Heraclitus the Dark - Everything Flows, Nothing Stays
15Chapter 13: The Pre-Socratic Legacy - From Ancient Cosmos to Modern Science
7Chapter 5: Parmenides the Unchanging - Being Is, Non-Being Is Not
16Chapter 14: Eternal Questions - What the First Philosophers Still Teach Us
8Chapter 6: Zeno's Paradoxes - When Logic Challenges Common Sense
17Chapter 15: Reading the Fragments - Approaching Ancient Wisdom
9Chapter 7: Empedocles the Reconciler - Four Roots and Two Forces
18Conclusion: The Wonder That Began Philosophy
