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Philosophic Classics Ancient Philosophy, Volume I

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ISBN-10: 0205783856

ISBN-13: 9780205783854

Edition: 6th 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Forrest E. Baird, Walter Kaufmann

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Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers. First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision ofPhilosophic Classics,Pearson Education's long-standing anthology (available in split volumes), continues the tradition of providing generations of students with high quality course material. Using the complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections of works, this anthology allows philosophers to speak directly to students. For more information on the main combined anthology, or the…    
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Book details

Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 1/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

New selections in bold
BEFORE SOCRATES
The Milesians
ThalesAnaximanderAnaximenes
Three Solitary Figures
PythagorasXenophanesHeraclitus
The Monists
ParmenidesZeno of Elea
The Pluralists
EmpedoclesAnaxagorasDemocritus (and Leucippus)
Three Sophists
ProtagorasGorgiasCritias
Epilogue I: Two Views of AthensThucydides
Pericles Funeral Oration The Melian Conference
Epilogue II: Aspasia PLATO
EuthyphroApologyCritoPhaedoMenoSymposium (189c-193d; 201d-end (223d))Republic (Book I, 336b-349b; 350d-354b; Book II, 357a-362c; 367e-376e; Book III, 386b-d; 387b-388e; 412b-417b; Book IV, 427d-445e; Book V, complete: 449-480a; Book VI-VII, 502c-521b Book VIII 562a-563-e)Parmenides (127-135)Theaetetus (selections) PLEASE NOTE THIS Section MAY BE CUT DUE TO PAGE COUNT, PLEASE CHECK AFTER BOOK HAS PUBLISHED AND CORRECT ACCORDINGLYTimaeus (27d-34b)Laws (selections)
ARISTOTLE
Categories (Chapters 1-5)On Interpretation (Chapters 1-9)Posterior Analytics (Book I, 1-2; Book II, 19)Physics (Book II complete)Metaphysics (Books I and XII complete)On the Soul (Book II, 1-3; Book III, 4-5)Nichomachean Ethics (Book I-II; Book III, 1-5; Book IV, 3; Books VI-VII; Book X,6-8, 9)Politics (Book I, 1-2; Book III, 6-9; Book IV, 11-12; Book VII, 3b-4, 9)Poestics (Chapter 6)
HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY
Epicurus
Letter to HerodotusLetter to MenoeceusPrincipal Doctrines
Lucretius
On the Nature of Universe (Book II, 216-284; Book III, tselections through 831)
The Early Stoa: Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes
Zeno of Citium (selections from Diogenes Laertius) Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus
Epictetus
Handbook (Encheiridion )
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations (Book IV)
Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1-15) THIS MAY CHANGE TO 1-13 DEPENDING ON PAGE COUNT PLEASE CHECK UPON PUBLICATION
Plotinus
Enneads (I, Tractate 6; V, Tractate 1, 1-12; V, Tractate 3, 12,9-end)-THE BOLDED Section MAY BE DELETED DEPENDING ON FINAL PAGE COUNT