Classics of Philosophy

by Pojman, Louis P.

• ISBN13: 9780195148930
• ISBN10: 0195148932
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-18
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

Classics of Philosophy, 2/e, is the most comprehensive anthology of writings in Western philosophy in print. Spanning 2500 years of thought, it is ideal for introduction to philosophy and history of philosophy courses that are structured chronologically. More than seventy works by forty-two philosophers as well as fragments from the Pre-Socratics are included, offering students and general readers alike an extensive and economical collection of the major works of the Western tradition. This anthology contains the most important writings from Thales to Rawls; seventeen of these are complete works, while the others are judiciously abridged so that little of value to the student is lost. Unabridged works include such classics as Plato's The Apology, Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, Leibniz's The Monadology, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Kant's Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals, Mill's Utilitarianism, Russell's A Free Man's Worship, Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism, and Rawls's "Justice as Fairness." A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers. Classics of Philosophy, 2/e, provides an extensive view of the most significant stages of growth in Western philosophy, including its birth with the Pre-Socratics as well as its contemporary developments. The second edition includes new selections by Augustine, Berkeley, Hume, Wollstonecraft, Nagel, and Foot.

Author Biography

Louis P. Pojman is Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his D. Phil. from Oxford University. Dr. Pojman is the author or editor of over twenty books

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Time Line	xi
PART 1: THE ANCIENT PERIOD
The Pre-Socratics	3	(17)
Readings	11	(9)
Plato	20	(220)
Euthyphro	23	(10)
The Apology	33	(14)
Crito	47	(7)
Phaedo	54	(32)
Meno	86	(11)
Republic	97	(143)
Aristotle	240	(117)
Categories	243	(4)
Posterior Analytics (Analytica Posteriora)	247	(3)
Physics	250	(12)
On the Soul	262	(5)
Metaphysics (Metaphysica)	267	(23)
Nicomachean Ethics	290	(33)
Politics	323	(34)
Epicurus	357	(6)
Letter to Menoeceus	358	(2)
Principal Doctrines	360	(3)
Epictetus	363	(11)
Encheiridion	365	(9)
Sextus Empiricus	374	(17)
Outlines of Pyrrhonism	375	(16)
Plotinus	391	(16)
Ennead I.6	391	(6)
Ennead V.1	397	(10)
PART 2: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Augustine	407	(40)
On Free Will	408	(15)
On Time and Eternity	423	(13)
The City of God	436	(11)
Boethius	447	(8)
The Consolation of Philosophy	447	(8)
Avicenna	455	(3)
Essay on the Secret of Destiny	455	(3)
Anselm and Gaunilo	458	(4)
Proslogion	459	(1)
Gaunilo's Criticism	460	(1)
St. Anselm's Rejoinder	461	(1)
Thomas Aquinas	462	(24)
Summa Theologica	463	(23)
William of Ockham	486	(9)
Summa Logicae	487	(8)
PART 3: THE MODERN PERIOD
Rene Descartes	495	(30)
Meditations on First Philosophy	497	(28)
Thomas Hobbes	525	(41)
Leviathan	527	(39)
Blaise Pascal	566	(4)
Pensees	567	(3)
Baruch Spinoza	570	(48)
Ethic	571	(47)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	618	(34)
Discourse on Metaphysics	621	(22)
The Monadology	643	(9)
John Locke	652	(38)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	653	(37)
George Berkeley	690	(33)
Of the Principles of Human Knowledge	691	(8)
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists	699	(24)
William Paley	723	(3)
Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature	723	(3)
David Hume	726	(93)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	728	(61)
Treatise on Human Nature	789	(5)
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	794	(25)
Immanuel Kant	819	(95)
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics	822	(51)
Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals	873	(41)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	914	(8)
Phenomenology of Spirit	916	(6)
Søren Kierkegaard	922	(13)
Readings	924	(2)
Concluding Unscientific Postscript	926	(9)
Mary Wollstonecraft	935	(7)
A Vindication of the Rights of Women	935	(7)
John Stuart Mill	942	(88)
Utilitarianism	944	(32)
On Liberty	976	(39)
The Subjection of Women	1015	(15)
Friedrich Nietzsche	1030	(31)
Aphorisms	1031	(2)
Joyful Wisdom	1033	(1)
Beyond Good and Evil	1033	(7)
Twilight of the Idols	1040	(12)
The Anti-Christ	1052	(9)
PART 4: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
W. K. Clifford	1061	(5)
The Ethics of Belief	1062	(4)
Charles Sanders Peirce	1066	(10)
Fixation of Belief	1067	(9)
William James	1076	(24)
The Will to Believe	1077	(8)
Pragmatism	1085	(15)
Bertrand Russell	1100	(42)
The Problems of Philosophy	1101	(35)
A Free Man's Worship	1136	(6)
G. E. Moore	1142	(8)
Philosophical Papers	1143	(7)
Ludwig Wittgenstein	1150	(18)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	1151	(8)
Philosophical Investigations	1159	(9)
Edmund Husserl	1168	(17)
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology	1169	(16)
Martin Heidegger	1185	(22)
The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics	1186	(21)
Jean-Paul Sartre	1207	(18)
Being and Nothingness	1208	(12)
Existentialism and Humanism	1220	(5)
A. J. Ayer	1225	(9)
Language Truth and Logic	1226	(8)
Thomas Nagel	1234	(8)
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?	1235	(7)
Philippa Foot	1242	(7)
Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives	1242	(7)
Nelson Goodman	1249	(5)
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast	1249	(5)
John Rawls	1254
Justice as Fairness	1256