Metaphysics The Classic Readings

by Cooper, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780631213246
• ISBN10: 0631213244
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Metaphysics: The Classic Readings is an essential collection of the most influential attempts to depict the fundamental nature of reality or being - from Spinoza's doctrine of a single, indivisible substance to Russell's 'logical atomism', and from the Buddha's account of a causally interrelated world to Leibniz's one of casually independent 'monads'.

Author Biography

David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. He is the author of a number of books including Metaphor (1986), Existentialism (1990, second edition 1999) and World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (1996). He is also editor of A Companion to Aesthetics (1992), and three previous volumes in the series Philosophy: The Classic Readings - Aesthetics (1997), Ethics (1997) and Epistemology (1999). All of the above are published by Blackwell.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(12)
Tao Te Ching (selected chapters)	13	(14)
Plato, Phaedrus, 245--50	27	(7)
Aristotle, Metaphysics, Books VII-VIII (selected chapters)	34	(19)
Gotama (the Buddha), Sayings on `Conditioned Genesis'	53	(16)
Lalitavistara, XIII, 95--117	60	(4)
Nagarjuna, Madhyamaka-Karika, Dedication and Chapter 25	64	(5)
Samkara, Brahmasutrabhasya (selections)	69	(22)
Principles of Philosophy, Part I	91	(22)
Rene Descartes
Ethics, Part I	113	(22)
Benedict de Spinoza
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapters 8 and 23 (1-11)	135	(15)
John Locke
Monadology	150	(15)
G. W. Leibniz
The Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I (1-37)	165	(15)
George Berkeley
Critique of Pure Reason [second edition], Transcendental Aesthetic (1-3, 8)	180	(17)
Immanuel Kant
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. II, Chapter 18	197	(12)
Arthur Schopenhauer
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, Chapter 11	209	(14)
John Stuart Mill
Appearance and Reality, Chapters 13 and 14	223	(13)
F. H. Bradley
`The One and the Many'	236	(14)
William James
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture VIII	250	(14)
Bertrand Russell
Process and Reality, Part I, Chapters 1 and 2 (selected sections)	264	(17)
A. N. Whitehead
Being and Time (14-15, 19, 21)	281	(20)
Martin Heidegger
Index	301