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The classics of Western philosophy : a reader's guide / edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg, Bernard N. Schumacher.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.Description: xviii, 614 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0631219064
  • 0631236112 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 190 21
LOC classification:
  • B29 .C537 2003
Contents:
Pre-Socratics, Fragments / T.M. Robinson ; Plato, Phaedo / K. Dorter ; Plato, Republic / C.D.C. Reeve ; Aristotle, Metaphysics / M.J. Loux ; Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics / T.H. Irwin ; Lucretius, De rerum natura / D. Sedley ; Plotinus, Enneads / D.J. O'Meara ; Augustine, On free choice of the will / G.B. Matthews ; Augustine, Confessions / S. MacDonald ; Boethius, The consolation of philosophy / J. Marenbon ; Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion / J. Hopkins ; Averroës, The incoherence of "The incoherence" / D.L. Black ; Maimonides, The guide of the perplexed / A.L. Ivry ; Thomas Aquinas, On Being and essence / J.J.E. Gracia ; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae / J.F. Ross ; John Duns Scotus, Questions on the metaphysics of Aristotle / T.B. Noone ; William of Ockham, Summa logicae / C. Panaccio ; Nicolas of Cusa, On learned ignorance / P. Casarella ; Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince / B. Thommessen ; Francisco de Vitoria, De Indis and De iure belli relectiones / G.M. Reichberg ; Francisco Suárez, Metaphysical disputations / J.J.E. Gracia ; Francis Bacon, New organon / R.K. Faulkner ; René Descartes, Meditations on First philosophy / Emily R. Grosholz ; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan / H. Syse ; Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics / D. Garrett ; John Locke, Essay concerning human understanding / V. Chappell ; George Berkeley, Three dialogues / G. Pappas ; G.W. Leibniz, Monadology / R. Sleigh ; Giambattista Vico, The new science / D.P. Verene ; David Hume, Treatise of human nature / F. Wilson ; Baron de Montesquieu, The spirit of laws / D.W. Carrithers ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the social contract / R. Velkley ; Immanuel Kant, The critique of pure reason / A.W. Wood ; Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals / A. Reath ; Friedrich Schiller, The aesthetic education of man in a series of letters / D.O. Dahlstrom ; G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of spirit / S. Houlgate ; Karl Marx, The economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844 / W. McBride ; Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding unscientific postscript to philosophical fragments / M. Westphal ; John Stuart Mill, On liberty / G.W. Smith ; Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond good and evil / R. Schacht ; Gottlob Frege, "Über sinn und bedeutung" / M. Dummett ; Edmund Husserl, Logical investigations / D.W. Smith ; William James, Varieties of religious experience / S.B. Rosenthal ; G.E. Moore, Principia ethica / T. Baldwin ; Charles Sanders Peirce, 1903 Harvard lectures on pragmatism: the practice of inquiry / V. Colapietro ; Bertrand Russell, "On denoting" and "Mathematical logic as based on the theory Of types" ; Henri Bergson, Creative evolution / F.C.T. Moore ; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus / Hans-Johann Glock ; John Dewey, Experience and nature / J. McDermott ; Martin Heidegger, Being and time / B.N. Schumacher ; Alfred North Whitehead, Process and reality / G.R. Lucas, Jr. ; Karl Popper, The logic of scientific discovery / M. Thalos ; Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and nothingness / T.R. Flynn ; Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of perception / S. Priest ; R.G. Collingwood, The idea of history / J. Rée ; Gilbert Ryle, The concept of mind / L. Addis ; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical investigations / N. Garver ; P.F. Strawson, Individuals: an essay in descriptive metaphysics / D. Bell ; W.V. Quine, Word and Objec / R. Dipert ; J.L. Austin, How to do things with words / N. Fotion ; Thomas S. Kuhn, The structure of scientific revolutions / E. Begby.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Classics of Western Philosophy brings together 61 newly-commissioned essays on classic texts ranging from Ancient Greece to the twentieth century. Surveying the history of philosophy, the book focuses on historical texts rather than historical figures and covers the entire range of classics in a single volume.

Provides 61 chapters written by leading experts on the classics of Western thought.
Includes current references to the scholarly literature in addition to a select bibliography of major articles and books.
Contributors include C.D.C. Reeve on Plato's Republic , Terrence Irwin on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics , Dominic O'Meara on Plotinus' Enneads , James Ross on Aquinas' Summa Theologiae , Don Garrett on Spinoza's Ethics , Allen Wood on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason , Stephen Houlgate on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , Michael Dummett on Frege's 'Über Sinn und Bedeutung,' Hanjo Glock on Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and David Woodruff Smith on Husserl's Logical Investigations .
Surveys the history of philosophy by focussing on the historical texts rather than historical figures.
Covers the entire range of classics in a single volume.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Pre-Socratics, Fragments / T.M. Robinson ; Plato, Phaedo / K. Dorter ; Plato, Republic / C.D.C. Reeve ; Aristotle, Metaphysics / M.J. Loux ; Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics / T.H. Irwin ; Lucretius, De rerum natura / D. Sedley ; Plotinus, Enneads / D.J. O'Meara ; Augustine, On free choice of the will / G.B. Matthews ; Augustine, Confessions / S. MacDonald ; Boethius, The consolation of philosophy / J. Marenbon ; Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion / J. Hopkins ; Averroës, The incoherence of "The incoherence" / D.L. Black ; Maimonides, The guide of the perplexed / A.L. Ivry ; Thomas Aquinas, On Being and essence / J.J.E. Gracia ; Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae / J.F. Ross ; John Duns Scotus, Questions on the metaphysics of Aristotle / T.B. Noone ; William of Ockham, Summa logicae / C. Panaccio ; Nicolas of Cusa, On learned ignorance / P. Casarella ; Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince / B. Thommessen ; Francisco de Vitoria, De Indis and De iure belli relectiones / G.M. Reichberg ; Francisco Suárez, Metaphysical disputations / J.J.E. Gracia ; Francis Bacon, New organon / R.K. Faulkner ; René Descartes, Meditations on First philosophy / Emily R. Grosholz ; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan / H. Syse ; Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics / D. Garrett ; John Locke, Essay concerning human understanding / V. Chappell ; George Berkeley, Three dialogues / G. Pappas ; G.W. Leibniz, Monadology / R. Sleigh ; Giambattista Vico, The new science / D.P. Verene ; David Hume, Treatise of human nature / F. Wilson ; Baron de Montesquieu, The spirit of laws / D.W. Carrithers ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the social contract / R. Velkley ; Immanuel Kant, The critique of pure reason / A.W. Wood ; Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals / A. Reath ; Friedrich Schiller, The aesthetic education of man in a series of letters / D.O. Dahlstrom ; G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of spirit / S. Houlgate ; Karl Marx, The economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844 / W. McBride ; Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding unscientific postscript to philosophical fragments / M. Westphal ; John Stuart Mill, On liberty / G.W. Smith ; Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond good and evil / R. Schacht ; Gottlob Frege, "Über sinn und bedeutung" / M. Dummett ; Edmund Husserl, Logical investigations / D.W. Smith ; William James, Varieties of religious experience / S.B. Rosenthal ; G.E. Moore, Principia ethica / T. Baldwin ; Charles Sanders Peirce, 1903 Harvard lectures on pragmatism: the practice of inquiry / V. Colapietro ; Bertrand Russell, "On denoting" and "Mathematical logic as based on the theory Of types" ; Henri Bergson, Creative evolution / F.C.T. Moore ; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus / Hans-Johann Glock ; John Dewey, Experience and nature / J. McDermott ; Martin Heidegger, Being and time / B.N. Schumacher ; Alfred North Whitehead, Process and reality / G.R. Lucas, Jr. ; Karl Popper, The logic of scientific discovery / M. Thalos ; Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and nothingness / T.R. Flynn ; Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of perception / S. Priest ; R.G. Collingwood, The idea of history / J. Rée ; Gilbert Ryle, The concept of mind / L. Addis ; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical investigations / N. Garver ; P.F. Strawson, Individuals: an essay in descriptive metaphysics / D. Bell ; W.V. Quine, Word and Objec / R. Dipert ; J.L. Austin, How to do things with words / N. Fotion ; Thomas S. Kuhn, The structure of scientific revolutions / E. Begby.

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