Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, Volume I

by Baird,Forrest E.

• ISBN13: 9780205783854
• ISBN10: 0205783856
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-01-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Esteemed for providing the best available translations, the Philosophic Classics series features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers. Forrest E. Baird's revisions ofPhilosophic Classics,Prentice Hall's long-standing philosophy series, continue the tradition begun in 1961, to provide generations of students with anthologies of high quality in the history of Western philosophy. Using the complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections of works, this series allows philosophers to speak directly to students.

Author Biography

Forrest Baird has taught at Whitworth since 1978. In addition to teaching a variety of courses in philosophy, most summers he teaches for Fuller Theological Seminary in extension programs throughout the West. Dr. Baird has a B.A. from Westmont, an M.Div. From Fuller, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University. In his time at Whitworth, Dr. Baird has been selected by five graduating classes as the "Most Influential Professor" and has also been voted "Teacher of the Year" by his colleagues. Dr. Baird has studied the problem of evil while a Resident Fellow at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John's University and Abbey in Collegeville, MN, and more recently has been studying Chinese philosophy. Dr. Baird's most recent scholarly work has been editing the six-volume Philosophic Classics series for Prentice Hall. His other works include editing the book, Human Thought and Action: Readings in Western Intellectual History, and co-authoring (with Jack Rogers) the HarperCollins textbook, Introduction to Philosophy: A Case Study Approach.

Table of Contents

New selections in bold.

 

BEFORE SOCRATES

 

The Milesians.

Thales

Anaximander

Anaximenes

 

Three Solitary Figures

Pythagoras

Xenophanes

Heraclitus

 

The Monists

Parmenides

Zeno of Elea

 

The Pluralists.

Empedocles

Anaxagoras

Democritus (and Leucippus)

 

Three Sophists.

Protagoras

Gorgias

Critias

 

Epilogue I: Two Views of Athens

Thucydides

Pericles Funeral Oration

 The Melian Conference

 

Epilogue II: Aspasia

 

PLATO

 

Euthyphro

Apology

Crito

Phaedo

Meno

Symposium (189c-193d; 201d-end (223d))

Republic  (Book I, 336b-349b; 350d-354b; Book II, 357a-362c; 367e-376e; Book III, 386b-d; 387b-388e; 412b-417b; Book IV, 427d-445e; Book V, complete: 449-480a; Book VI-VII, 502c-521b Book VIII 562a-563-e)

Parmenides (127-135)

Theaetetus (selections)  PLEASE NOTE THIS SECTION MAY BE CUT DUE TO PAGE COUNT, PLEASE CHECK AFTER BOOK HAS PUBLISHED AND CORRECT ACCORDINGLY

Timaeus (27d-34b)

Laws (selections)

 

ARISTOTLE

 

Categories (Chapters 1-5)

On Interpretation (Chapters 1-9)

Posterior Analytics (Book I, 1-2; Book II, 19)

Physics (Book II complete)

Metaphysics (Books I and XII complete)

On the Soul (Book II, 1-3; Book III, 4-5)

Nichomachean Ethics (Book I-II; Book III, 1-5; Book IV, 3; Books VI-VII; Book X,6-8, 9)

Politics (Book I, 1-2; Book III, 6-9; Book IV, 11-12; Book VII, 3b-4, 9)

Poestics (Chapter 6)

 

HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY

 

Epicurus.

Letter to Herodotus

Letter to Menoeceus

Principal Doctrines

 

Lucretius.

On the Nature of Universe (Book II, 216-284; Book III, tselections through 831)

 

The Early Stoa: Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes

Zeno of Citium (selections from Diogenes Laertius)

Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus

 

Epictetus

Handbook (Encheiridion )

 

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations (Book IV)

 

Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus

Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1-15) THIS MAY CHANGE TO 1-13 DEPENDING ON PAGE COUNT PLEASE CHECK UPON PUBLICATION

 

Plotinus

Enneads (I, Tractate 6; V, Tractate 1, 1-12; V, Tractate 3, 12,9-end)-THE BOLDED SECTION MAY BE DELETED DEPENDING ON FINAL PAGE COUNT