Classics of Philosophy Volume II: Modern and Contemporary

by Pojman, Louis P.

• ISBN13: 9780195116465
• ISBN10: 0195116461
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Classics of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern and Contemporary covers the works of philosophers from Descartes to Rawls. Ideal for courses in modern and contemporary philosophy, it includes forty-eight extensive selections--seventeen of them complete--from twenty-nine philosophers. This collectionoffers an unrivaled introduction to the major works of these periods. A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers. Also look for Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval, which covers the works of philosophers from Thales to William of Ockham. In addition, there is a single-volume edition available that combines Volume I and Volume II, providing the most comprehensive anthology of writings inwestern philosophy in print.

Author Biography

Louis P. Pojman is Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is the author or editor of over twenty books and numerous articles.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Time Line	xi
PART III: THE MODERN PERIOD
Rene Descartes	463	(28)
Meditations on First Philosophy	465	(26)
Thomas Hobbes	491	(38)
Leviathan or The Matter, Form, & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil	493	(36)
Blaise Pascal	529	(4)
Pensees	530	(3)
Baruch Spinoza	533	(45)
Ethic	534	(44)
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)
John Locke	614	(30)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	615	(29)
George Berkeley	644	(23)
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists	646	(21)
William Paley	667	(3)
Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature	667	(3)
David Hume	670	(101)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	672	(56)
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	728	(43)
Immanuel Kant	771	(86)
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics	774	(46)
Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals	820	(37)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	857	(7)
Phenomenology of Spirit	859	(5)
Arthur Schopenhauer	864	(37)
The World as Will and Representation	865	(23)
Essay on the Freedom of the Will	888	(13)
Soren Kierkegaard	901	(12)
Readings	902	(3)
Concluding Unscientific Postscript	905	(8)
John Stuart Mill	913	(82)
Utilitarianism	914	(31)
On Liberty	945	(36)
The Subjection of Women	981	(14)
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)
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
W. K. Clifford	1047	(5)
The Ethics of Belief	1048	(4)
Charles Sanders Peirce	1052	(10)
The Fixation of Belief	1053	(9)
William James	1062	(23)
The Will to Believe	1063	(7)
Pragmatism	1070	(15)
Bertrand Russell	1085	(54)
The Problems of Philosophy	1086	(48)
A Free Man's Worship	1134	(5)
G. E. Moore	1139	(8)
Philosophical Papers	1140	(7)
Ludwig Wittgenstein	1147	(18)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	1148	(8)
Philosophical Investigations	1156	(9)
Edmund Husserl	1165	(15)
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology	1166	(14)
Martin Heidegger	1180	(21)
The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics	1181	(20)
Jean-Paul Sartre	1201	(17)
Being and Nothingness	1202	(11)
Existentialism and Humanism	1213	(5)
A. J. Ayer	1218	(8)
Language, Truth and Logic	1219	(7)
W. V. O. Quine	1226	(14)
Two Dogmas of Empiricism	1227	(13)
Nelson Goodman	1240	(5)
Fact, Fiction and Forecast	1240	(5)
John Rawls	1245	(2)
Justice as Fairness	1247