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Philosophic Classics: from Plato to Derrida

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ISBN-10: 0205783864

ISBN-13: 9780205783861

Edition: 6th 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Forrest Baird, Walter Kaufmann

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Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida, 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 period volumes that are…    
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Book details

Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 1/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1232
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.25" long x 2.09" tall
Weight: 3.960
Language: English

Preface
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Socrates And Plato
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo (72c 83c, 114e 118b)
Republic (Book I, 336b 342e, 347b e; Book II, 357a 362c, 368a 376e; Book III, 412b 417b; Book IV, 427c 445e; Book V, 449 462e, 473b e; and Books VI VII, 502c 521b)
Aristotle
Physics (Book II, complete)
Metaphysics (Book I, 1 4, 6, 9; and Book XII, 6 9)
On the Soul (Book II, Chapters 1 3; and Book III, 4 5)
Nicomachean Ethics (Books I II; Book IV, 3; Books VI VII; and Book X, 6 8)
Hellenistic And Roman Philosophy
Epicurus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines
Epictetus
Handbook (Enchiridion)
Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1 13)
Plotinus
Enneads (Ennead I, Tractate 6)
Christianity and Medieval Philosophy
Augustine
Confessions (Book VIII, 5, 8 12; and Book XI, 14 28)
City of God (Book XI, Chapter 26; and Book XII, Chapters 1 9)
Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy (Book V, Chapter 6)
Anselm (and Guanilo)
Proslogion (Preface; Chapters 1 4)
Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate (selections)
Hildegard of Bingen
Scivias (Book I, Vision 4, 16 26)
Moses Maimonides
The Guide for the Perplexed (Part II, Introduction)
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica (selections)
William of Ockham
Summa Logicae (On Universals Part I, Chapters 14 16)
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Oration on the Dignity of Man (in Part)
Modern Philosophy
Rene Descartes
Meditations on the First Philosophy
Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth (selections)
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan (selections from Chapters 1 3, 6, 9, 12 15, 17 18, 21)
Blaise Pascal
Pensÿes (selections)
Baruch Spinoza
Ethics (Sections I and II)
John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (abridged)
Gottfried Leibniz
Discourse on Metaphysics
The Monadology
George Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract (Book I)
Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
On a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Chapter 6)
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
G.W.F. Hegel
Phenomenology of Spirit (B, IV, A: "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Relations of Master and Servant")
Lectures on the History of Philosophy ("The Final Result")
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
S Ren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling (Problema I: "Teleological Suspension of the Ethical")
Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Section II, Chapter 2, "Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth Is Subjectivity")
Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 ("Alienated Labor")
Manifesto of the Communist Party (Chapters 1 and 2)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Preface)
Notes on Bakunin's Statehood and Anarchy (selections)
Charles Sanders Peirce
The Fixation of Belief
William James
Pragmatism (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy (Chapters 1���3)
The Gay Science (selections)
Twilight of the Idols (selections)
The Anti-Christ (First Book, 2 7, 62)
Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Edmund Husserl
Phenomenology (Encyclopaedia Brittanica article)
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folks (Chapter 1)
Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy (Chapters 1 & 15)
Martin Heidegger
Introduction to Metaphysics (Chapter 1: "The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics")
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Preface Sections 1 3.1431,4, 4.06, 4.1, 5, 5.6, 6.4 7)
Philosophical Investigations (Paragraphs 1 47, 65 71, 241, 257 258, 305, 309)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Simone De Beauvoir
The Second Sex (Introduction)
Willard Van Orman Quine
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Jacques Derrida
Of Grammatology ("The Written Being/The Being Written")