Synopses & Reviews
This is an historically organized collection of readings from 15 thinkers, from Plato to the present, including non-western (Mencius) and feminist (de Beauvoir) texts. Helpful editorial features include introductions to each writer, discussion questions, annotated bibliographies, and a general introduction to reading philosophical texts.
Synopsis
This is an historically organized collection of readings from 15 thinkers, from Plato to the present, including non-western (Mencius) and feminist (de Beauvoir) texts. Helpful editorial features include introductions to each writer, discussion questions, annotated bibliographies, and a general introduction to reading philosophical texts.
Table of Contents
General Introduction. 1. PLATO: The Republic. 2. ARISTOTLE: Nicomachean Ethics. 3. MENCIUS: The Book of Mencius. 4. LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA: On the Happy Life. 5. AUGUSTINE: The Free Choice of the Will. 6. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologiae. 7. RENE DESCARTES: Meditations on First Philosophy. 8. DAVID HUME: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. 9. KARL MARX: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. 10. FREIDRICH NIETZSCHE: Human, All Too Human. 11. SIGMUND FREUD: Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis. 12. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: Existentialism Is a Humanism. 13. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: The Ethics of Ambiguity. 14. B. F. SKINNER: About Behaviorism. 15. EDWARD O. WILSON: On Human Nature