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Since Socrates A Concise Source Book of Classic Readings

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ISBN-10: 0534633285

ISBN-13: 9780534633288

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert C. Solomon, Clancy Martin

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This historically organized anthology, co-edited by one of contemporary philosophy's most noted scholars and teachers, Robert C. Solomon, provides philosophy students with a carefully edited collection of classical sources drawn from the history of philosophy. Unlike other historical anthologies, SINCE SOCRATES is designed as a concise source book, readily managed in the course of a semester with substantial yet manageable readings from original texts in translation. Beginning with selections from Pre-Socratic sources--both Eastern and Western--and moving through representative Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and 20th century readings, students are introduced to the wide range of ideas and…    
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List price: $117.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 5/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 654
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Introduction
Timeline
PROLOGUE: BEFORE SOCRATES. the Vedas, Brahman, and Buddhism. Rg Veda. Bhagavad Gita. Teachings of the Buddha. Confucianism. Confucius/The Analects. Taoism. Lao-Tze/Tao Te Ching. Chuang Tze/Selections. the Pre-Socratics. Thales/Selections. Pythagoras/Selections. Heraclitus/Selections. Parmenides/The Way of Truth
Socrates and Plato. Apology. Euthyphro. Crito. Meno. Phaedo. Symposium. Phaedrus. Republic
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Categories. Metaphysics. Physics
Sextus Empiricus. From Outlines of Pyrrhonism
ST. Augustine. the Problem of Evil (City of God, XI, XIV)
ST. Anselm. the Ontological Proof of God
ST. Thomas aquinas. the Five Ways
Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan (13-15)
Rene descartes. Meditations
John Locke. Essay on Human Understanding. From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. On Personal Identity. From the Second Treatise on Government
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz. Monadology
Bishop George Berkeley. of the Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The re is No Self. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (continued). Treatise of Human Nature. From Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Immanuel Kant. Critique of Pure Reason. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
G.W.F. HEGEL. the Phenomenology of Spirit
Soren Kierkegaard. Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism. On Liberty
Friedrich Nietzsche. Gay Science. Beyond Good and Evil. the Genealogy of Morality. Twilight of the Idols. On Truth. On the Will to Power. On Eternal Recurrence
William James. the Will to Believe
Bertrand Russell. the Problems of Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations
Jean-Paul Sartre. Existentialism is a Humanism. Being and Nothingness
Simone De Beauvior. the Ethics of Ambiguity
Michel Foucault. Truth and Power