Classics of Philosophy

by Pojman, Louis P.

• ISBN13: 9780195109313
• ISBN10: 0195109317
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Classics of Philosophy is the most comprehensive anthology of writings in western philosophy in print. Spanning 2,500 years of thought, it is ideal for introduction to philosophy and history of philosophy courses. Over seventy-five 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; twenty-four of these are complete works, including such classics as Plato's Republic , Descartes' 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 The Problems of Philosophy , Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism , and Rawls's "Justice as Fairness," while the others are judiciously abridged so that little of value to the student is lost. The book provides a broad view of the most significant stages of growth in western philosophy, including its birth with the Pre-Socratics as well as its contemporary developments. A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers. Classics of Philosophy is available in this single-volume edition and in two split volumes. Volume I: Ancient and Medieval covers philosophers from the Pre-Socratics to William of Ockham; and Volume II: Modern and Contemporary begins with Descartes and ends with Rawls.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Time Line	xi
PART I: THE ANCIENT PERIOD	3	(390)
1. The Pre-Socratics	3	(13)
Readings	11	(5)
2. Plato	16	(229)
Euthyphro	19	(9)
The Apology	28	(13)
Crito	41	(33)
Phaedo	47	(16)
Meno	63	(11)
Republic	74	(171)
3. Aristotle	245	(107)
Categories	248	(3)
Posterior Analytics (Analytica Posteriora)	251	(4)
Physics	255	(11)
On the Soul	266	(1)
Metaphysics (Metaphysica)	267	(22)
Nicomachean Ethics	289	(31)
Politics	320	(32)
4. Epicurus	352	(6)
Letter to Menoeceus	353	(2)
Principle Doctrines	355	(3)
5. Epictetus	358	(11)
Encheiridion	360	(9)
6. Sextus Empiricus	369	(16)
Outlines of Pyrrhonism	370	(15)
7. Plotinus	385	(8)
Ennead	385	(8)
PART II: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD	393	(70)
8. Augustine	393	(28)
On Free Will	394	(14)
Time and Eternity	408	(13)
9. Boethius	421	(8)
The Consolations of Philosophy	421	(8)
10. Avicenna	429	(3)
Essay on the Secret of Destiny	429	(3)
11. Anselm and Gaunilo	432	(4)
Proslogium	433	(1)
Gaunilo's Criticism	434	(1)
St. Anselm's Rejoinder	435	(1)
12. Moses Maimonides	436	(6)
Guide for the Perplexed	436	(6)
13. Thomas Aquinas	442	(12)
Summa Theologica	443	(11)
14. William of Ockham	454	(9)
Summa Logicae	455	(8)
PART III: THE MODERN PERIOD	463	(584)
15. Rene Descartes	463	(28)
Meditations on First Philosophy	465	(26)
16. Thomas Hobbes	491	(38)
Leviathan or The Matter, Form, & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil	493	(36)
17. Blaise Pascal	529	(4)
Pensees	530	(3)
18. Baruch Spinoza	533	(45)
Ethic	534	(44)
19. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	578	(36)
Discourse on Metaphysics	581	(21)
The Monadology	602	(7)
Theodicy: Abridgement of the Argument Reduced to Syllogistic Form	609	(5)
20. John Locke	614	(30)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	615	(29)
21. George Berkeley	644	(23)
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists	646	(21)
22. William Paley	667	(3)
Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature	667	(3)
23. David Hume	670	(101)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	672	(56)
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	728	(43)
24. Immanuel Kant	771	(86)
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics	774	(6)
Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals	820	(37)
25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	857	(7)
Phenomenology of Spirit	859	(5)
26. Arthur Schopenhauer	864	(37)
The World as Will and Representation	865	(23)
Essay on the Freedom of the Will	888	(13)
27. Soren Kierkegaard	901	(12)
Readings	902	(3)
Concluding Unscientific Postscript	905	(8)
28. John Stuart Mill	913	(82)
Utilitarianism	914	(31)
On Liberty	945	(36)
The Subjection of Women	981	(14)
29. Karl Marx	995	(19)
Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right	996	(1)
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts	997	(14)
The German Ideology	1011	(3)
30. Friedrich Nietzsche	1014	(33)
Aphorisms	1015	(1)
Joyful Wisdom	1016	(1)
Beyond Good and Evil	1017	(5)
Twilight of the Idols	1022	(12)
The Anti-Christ	1034	(13)
PART IV: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD	1047
31. W. K. Clifford	1047	(5)
The Ethics of Belief	1048	(4)
32. Charles Sanders Peirce	1052	(10)
The Fixation of Belief	1053	(9)
33. William James	1062	(23)
The Will to Believe	1063	(7)
Pragmatism	1070	(15)
34. Bertrand Russell	1085	(54)
The Problems of Philosophy	1086	(48)
A Free Man's Worship	1134	(5)
35. G. E. Moore	1139	(8)
Philosophical Papers	1140	(7)
36. Ludwig Wittgenstein	1147	(18)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	1148	(8)
Philosophical Investigations	1156	(9)
37. Edmund Husserl	1165	(15)
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology	1166	(14)
38. Martin Heidegger	1180	(21)
The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics	1181	(20)
39. Jean-Paul Sartre	1201	(17)
Being and Nothingness	1202	(11)
Existentialism and Humanism	1213	(5)
40. A. J. Ayer	1218	(8)
Language, Truth and Logic	1219	(7)
41. W. V. O. Quine	1226	(14)
Two Dogmas of Empiricism	1227	(13)
42. Nelson Goodman	1240	(5)
Fact, Fiction and Forecast	1240	(5)
43. John Rawls	1245
Justice as Fairness	1247