Synopses & Reviews
Classics of Philosophy, 2/e, is the most comprehensive anthology of writings in Western philosophy in print. Spanning 2500 years of thought, it is ideal for introduction to philosophy and history of philosophy courses that are structured chronologically. More than seventy 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; seventeen of these are complete works, while the others are judiciously abridged so that little of value to the student is lost. Unabridged works include such classics as Plato's
The Apology, Descartes's
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
A Free Man's Worship, Sartre's
Existentialism and Humanism, and Rawls's "Justice as Fairness." A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers.
Classics of Philosophy, 2/e, provides an extensive view of the most significant stages of growth in Western philosophy, including its birth with the Pre-Socratics as well as its contemporary developments. The second edition includes new selections by Augustine, Berkeley, Hume, Wollstonecraft, Nagel, and Foot.
About the Author
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
Time Line
PART I: THE ANCIENT PERIOD
1. The Pre-Socratics.
Readings
2. Plato.
* Euthyphro
* The Apology
* Crito
Phaedo
Meno
* Republic
3. Aristotle.
Categories
Posterior Analytics (Analytica Posteriora)
Physics
On the Soul
Metaphysics (Metaphysica)
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
4. Epicurus.
* Letter to Menoeceus
* Principle Doctrines
5. Epictetus.
* Encheiridion
6. Sextus Empiricus.
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
7. Plotinus.
Ennead
Part II: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
8. Augustine.
On Free Will
Time and Eternity
9. Boethius.
The Consolations of Philosophy
10. Avicenna.
Essay on the Secret of Destiny
11. Anselm and Gaunilo.
Proslogium
Gaunilo's Criticism
St. Anselm's Rejoinder
12. Moses Maimonides.
Guide for the Perplexed
13. Thomas Aquinas.
Summa Theologica
14. William of Ockham.
Summa Logicae
Part III: THE MODERN PERIOD
15. Rene Descartes.
* Meditations on First Philosophy
16. Thomas Hobbes.
Leviathan or The Matter, Form,andPower of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil
17. Blaise Pascal.
Pensees
18. Baruch Spinoza.
Ethic
19. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
* Discourse on Metaphysics
* The Monadology
* Theodicy: Abridgement of the Argument Reduced to Syllogistic Form
20. John Locke.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
21. George Berkeley.
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
22. William Paley.
Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature
23. David Hume.
* An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
* Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
24. Immanuel Kant.
* Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
* Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals
25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
Phenomenology of Spirit
26. Arthur Schopenhauer.
The World as Will and Representation
Essay on the Freedom of the Will
27. Soren Kierkegaard.
Readings
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
28. John Stuart Mill.
* Utilitarianism
On Liberty
The Subjection of Women
29. Karl Marx.
Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
The German Ideology
30. Friedrich Nietzsche.
Aphorisms
Joyful Wisdom
Beyond Good and Evil
Twilight of the Idols
The Anti-Christ
PART IV: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
31. W. K. Clifford.
The Ethics of Belief
32. Charles Sanders Peirce.
* The Fixation of Belief
33. William James.
* The Will to Believe
Pragmatism
34. Bertrand Russell.
* The Problems of Philosophy
* A Free Man's Worship
35. G. E. Moore.
Philosophical Papers
36. Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophical Investigations
37. Edmund Husserl.
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
38. Martin Heidegger.
* The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics
39. Jean-Paul Sartre.
Being and Nothingness
* Existentialism and Humanism
40. A. J. Ayer.
Language, Truth and Logic
41. W. V. O. Quine.
* Two Dogmas of Empiricism
42. Nelson Goodman.
Fact, Fiction and Forecast
43. John Rawls.
* Justice as Fairness