Philosophic Classics, Volume IV: 19th Century Philosophy

by Baird, Forrest E.

• ISBN13: 9780130215338
• ISBN10: 0130215333
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

For courses in 19th-century Philosophy or Contemporary Philosophy. Designed to be accessible to today's students, this anthology of readings in contemporary Western philosophy focuses on Nineteenth-century philosophers who represent a variety of different responses to the issue of the dayi.e., whether or not there was a knowable, nonhuman rational order upon which thinking persons could willfully choose to act. Striking a balance between major and minor figures, the anthology features the best available translations of textscomplete works or complete selections of workswhich are both central to each philosopher's thought and are widely accepted as part of the canon. The selections are readable and accessible, while still being faithful to the original. Introductions to each philosopher, an abundance of drawings, diagrams, photographs, and a timeline keep students focused throughout.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Jeremy Bentham	1	(13)
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Chapter 1-4)	5	(9)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte	14	(18)
On the Foundation of Our Belief in a Divine Government of the Universe	18	(5)
The Vocation of Man (Book III)	23	(9)
G.W.F. Hegel	32	(58)
Phenomenology of Spirit (``Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Relations of Master and Servant'')	36	(5)
Encyclopaedia (Introduction)	41	(10)
Who Thinks Abstractly?	51	(3)
Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History (Chapter 1-3)	54	(31)
Lectures on the History of Philosophy (``History of Philosophy: The Final Result'')	85	(5)
Arthur Schopenhauer	90	(28)
The World as Will and Idea (``On the Primacy of the Will in Self-Consciousness'')	93	(25)
Auguste Comte	118	(14)
Course in Positive Philosophy (``The Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy'')	122	(10)
Ludwig Feuerbach	132	(9)
The Essence of Christianity (``The Essential Nature of Man'')	135	(6)
John Stuart Mill	141	(115)
Utilitarianism	144	(39)
On Liberty	183	(68)
The Subjection of Woman (Selections from Chapter 1)	251	(5)
SØren Kierkegaard	256	(45)
Fear and Trembling (``Teleological Suspension of the Ethical'')	260	(8)
Concluding Unscientific Postscript (``Possible and Actual Theses by Lessing'' and ``Subjective Truth, Inwardness: Truth Is Subjectivity'')	268	(25)
Two Ages (``The Present Age'')	293	(8)
Karl Marx	301	(68)
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (``Alienated Labour.''``Communism and Private Property.'' and ``Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy'')	305	(28)
Manifesto of the Communist Party (Chapters 1, 2, & 4)	333	(10)
The German Ideology (``Ideology in General, German Ideology in Particular'')	343	(6)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Preface and Introduction)	349	(20)
Charles Sanders Peirce	369	(27)
The Fixation of Belief	372	(11)
How to Make Our Ideas Clear	383	(13)
William James	396	(52)
The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life	399	(13)
The Will to Believe	412	(13)
Pragmatism (``Philosophical Temperments.'' ``What Pragmatism Means.'' and ``The One and the Many'')	425	(23)
Friedrich Nietzsche	448	(4)
The Birth of Tragedy (Chapters 1--3, 15, 25)	452	(10)
The Genealogy of Morality (``Good and Evil,'' Good and Bad''')	462	(15)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Part I, Chapters 1--3)	477	(3)
Twilight of the Idols (Selections)	480	(16)
The Will to Power (§1067)	496	(1)
The Anti-Christ (First Book, Chapters 2--7, 62)	496