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Classics of Philosophy

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ISBN-10: 0195148932

ISBN-13: 9780195148930

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Louis P. Pojman

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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.…    
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List price: $59.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/18/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1296
Size: 9.21" wide x 7.52" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 3.784
Language: English

Louis P. Pojman (1935-2005) was Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the United States Military Academy and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and a Rockefeller Fellow at Hamburg University. He received his D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1997.His first position was at the University of Notre Dame, after which he taught at the University of Texas at Dallas. Later, at the University of Mississippi, he served for three years as Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In 1995, he became Professor of Philosophy…    

Preface
Time Line
The Ancient Period
The Pre-Socratics
Readings
Plato
Euthyphro
The Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Meno
Republic
Aristotle
Categories
Posterior Analytics (Analytica Posteriora)
Physics
On the Soul
Metaphysics (Metaphysica)
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
Epicurus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines
Epictetus
Encheiridion
Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Plotinus
Ennead I.6
Ennead V.1
The Medieval Period
Augustine
On Free Will
On Time and Eternity
The City of God
Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Avicenna
Essay on the Secret of Destiny
Anselm and Gaunilo
Proslogion
Gaunilo's Criticism
St. Anselm's Rejoinder
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
William of Ockham
Summa Logicae
The Modern Period
Rene Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
Blaise Pascal
Pensees
Baruch Spinoza
Ethic
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Discourse on Metaphysics
The Monadology
John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
George Berkeley
Of the Principles of Human Knowledge
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
William Paley
Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature
David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Treatise on Human Nature
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Phenomenology of Spirit
Soren Kierkegaard
Readings
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
On Liberty
The Subjection of Women
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aphorisms
Joyful Wisdom
Beyond Good and Evil
Twilight of the Idols
The Anti-Christ
The Contemporary Period
W. K. Clifford
The Ethics of Belief
Charles Sanders Peirce
Fixation of Belief
William James
The Will to Believe
Pragmatism
Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
A Free Man's Worship
G. E. Moore
Philosophical Papers
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophical Investigations
Edmund Husserl
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
Martin Heidegger
The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics
Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
Existentialism and Humanism
A. J. Ayer
Language, Truth and Logic
Thomas Nagel
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Philippa Foot
Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives
Nelson Goodman
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
John Rawls
Justice as Fairness