Masterpieces of World Philosophy

by Magill, Frank N.

• ISBN13: 9780062700513
• ISBN10: 0062700510
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-20
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

For many, philosophy is a difficult, almost unapproachable field--just understanding it seems to require more knowledge than most students and general readers could possible have. That's how Masterpieces of World Philosophy can help you to truly grasp the ideas of Aristotle and Aquinas, Confucius and Camus: it examines and summarizes nearly one hundred influential works through critical essays that focus on their themes and major points. Based on the award-winning, five-volume reference, World Philosophy, each essay explains the historical background of the work, the life of its author, and its influence on modern thought. Alternative views of the philosopher's ideas are provided through reviews of important critical works, and reading lists help you find sources for additional information. With Masterpieces of World Philosophy, the ideas that have shaped our world--from the ancients to the thinkers of our time--are at your fingertips.

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Reading Masterpieces of Philosophy in a Changing World	vii
John K. Roth
Analects of Confucius, The	1	(8)
Confucius
Bhagavad Gita	9	(8)
Unknown
Democritus: Fragments	17	(9)
Democritus of Abdera
Euthyphro	26	(7)
Plato
Apology	33	(9)
Plato
Crito	42	(7)
Plato
Phaedo	49	(8)
Plato
Republic	57	(9)
Plato
Metaphysics	66	(7)
Aristotle
Ethica Nicomachea	73	(9)
Aristotle
Politics	82	(7)
Aristotle
Meng Tzu	89	(8)
Mencius
Chuang Tzu	97	(7)
Chuang Chou
Principal Doctrines and Letter to Menoeceus	104	(1)
Epicurus
Principal Doctrines and Letter to Menoeceus	104	(7)
Epicurus
Tao Te Ching	111	(8)
Unknown
De rerum natura	119	(8)
Lucretius
Discourses and Manual	127	(7)
Epictetus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism	134	(8)
Sextus Empiricus
City of God The	142	(8)
Saint Augustine
Platform Scripture of the Sixth Patriarch The	150	(7)
Hui-neng
Crest Jewel of Wisdom	157	(8)
S' ankara
Book of Salvation, The	165	(8)
Avicenna
Monologion and Proslogion	173	(8)
Saint Anselm of Canterbury
Incoherence of the Incoherence The	181	(8)
Averroes
Summa Theologica	189	(10)
Saint Thomas Aquinas
William of Ockham: Selections	199	(9)
William of Ockham
Prince The	208	(8)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Novum Organum	216	(8)
Francis Bacon
Meditations on First Philosophy	224	(8)
Rene Descartes
Leviathan	232	(9)
Thomas Hobbes
Pensees	241	(8)
Blaise Pascal
Ethics	249	(9)
Benedictus de Spinoza
Essay Concerning Human Understanding An	258	(10)
John Locke
Of Civil Government: The Second Treatise	268	(9)
John Locke
Theodicy	277	(7)
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous	284	(8)
George Berkeley
Treatise of Human Nature (Book I) A	292	(9)
David Hume
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, An	301	(10)
David Hume
Social Contract, The	311	(8)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	319	(8)
David Hume
Critique of Pure Reason	327	(9)
Immanuel Kant
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals	336	(8)
Immanuel Kant
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation An	344	(7)
Jeremy Bentham
Phenomenology of Spirit	351	(8)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
World as Will and Idea, The	359	(8)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy of History, The	367	(9)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophical Fragments	376	(9)
Søren Kierkegaard
Concluding Unscientific Postscript	385	(9)
Søren Kierkegaard
Essay on Liberty	394	(7)
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism	401	(8)
John Stuart Mill
Methods of Ethics	409	(9)
The Henry Sidgwick
Thus Spake Zarathustra	418	(8)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil	426	(9)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Marx: Selected Works	435	(9)
Karl Marx
Will to Believe, The	444	(9)
William James
World and the Individual The	453	(8)
Josiah Royce
Principia Ethica	461	(8)
George Edward Moore
Life of Reason The	469	(8)
George Santayana
Creative Evolution	477	(8)
Henri Bergson
Peirce: Collected Papers	485	(9)
Charles Sanders Peirce
Pragmatism	494	(8)
William James
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology	502	(8)
Edmund Husserl
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	510	(11)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Human Nature and Conduct	521	(8)
John Dewey
I and Thou	529	(8)
Martin Buber
Being and Time	537	(11)
Martin Heidegger
Quest for Certainty, The	548	(8)
John Dewey
Process and Reality	556	(9)
Alfred North Whitehead
Right and the Good, The	565	(8)
William David Ross
Logic of Scientific Discovery The	573	(8)
Sir Karl R. Popper
Philosophy and Logical Syntax	581	(9)
Rudolf Carnap
Language, Truth and Logic	590	(8)
Alfred Jules Ayer
Inquiry into Meaning and Truth An	598	(9)
Bertrand Russell
Being and Nothingness	607	(12)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Phenomenology of Perception	619	(9)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Zen Buddhism	628	(8)
Daisetz T. Suzuki
Rebel The	636	(8)
Albert Camus
Courage to Be The	644	(9)
Paul Tillich
Philosophical Investigations	653	(9)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Word and Object	662	(8)
W.V.O. Quine
How to do Things with Words	670	(8)
J. L. Austin
Theory of Justice	678
John Rawls