Classics of Philosophy 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. With more than seventy works by forty philosophers as well as fragments from the Pre-Socratics,
it offers students and instructors an extensive and economical collection of the major works of the Western tradition.
The new third edition, like its predecessor, provides students with unabridged or substantial texts of classic
works while keeping as close to the heart of the canon as possible in the space provided. This revision expands
many of the existing readings, adds some important philosophers, and includes just enough pedagogy to help students
without diminishing their own direct experience with the text. Specifically, improvements include:DT Expanding
Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, On the Soul, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics; Berkeley's On the Principles
of Human Knowledge; and Hume's Treatise on Human NatureDT Adding selections from Maimonides and Schopenhauer as
well as Kant's Critique of Pure ReasonDT Review questions for each chapter DT Portraits of many philosophers (new
to the third edition).DT A companion website for both students and instructors: includes brief summaries for each
reading, essay questions for the selections, objective test questions, and 200 PowerPoint lecture slides for professors.
For students, the website offers self-tests, flash cards with key terms, review questions for each chapter, a timeline
featuring the authors in the text, and helpful web links. Classics of Philosophy third edition should give students
easier access to more of philosophy's greatest works in a more economical package. It should also offer an alternative
to teachers who want a quality anthology of Western classics that includes the best of the pre-Socratics as well
as a sampling of influential contemporary philosophy.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
*=New to this edition
**=Expanded in this edition
Preface
Time Line
PART 1: THE ANCIENT PERIOD
1. The Pre-Socratics
Readings
2. Plato
Euthyphro
The Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Meno
Republic
3. Aristotle
Categories
** Posterior Analytics (Analytica Posteriora)
Physics
** On the Soul
** Metaphysics (Metaphysica)
** Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
4. Epicurus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines
5. Epictetus
Encheiridion
6. Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
7. Plotinus
Ennead I.6
Ennead V.1
PART 2: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
8. Augustine
On Free Will
On Time and Eternity
The City of God
9. Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
10. Anselm and Gaunilo
Proslogium
Gaunilo's Criticism
St. Anselm's Rejoinder
* 11. Moses Maimonides
* Guide for the Perplexed
12. Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
13. William of Ockham
Summa Logicae
PART 3: THE MODERN PERIOD
14. Ren� Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy
15. Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
16. Blaise Pascal
Pens�es
17. Baruch Spinoza
The Ethics
18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Discourse on Metaphysics
The Monadology
19. John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
20. George Berkeley
** Of the Principles of Human Knowledge
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
21. David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
** Treatise on Human Nature
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
22. Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals
* Critique of Pure Reason
23. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Phenomenology of Spirit
* 24. Arthur Schopenhauer
* The World as Will and Representation
25. S�ren Kierkegaard
Readings
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
26. John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
On Liberty
The Subjection of Women
27. Friedrich Nietzsche
Aphorisms
Joyful Wisdom
Beyond Good and Evil
Twilight of the Idols
The Anti-Christ
PART 4: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
28. Charles Sanders Peirce
Fixation of Belief
29. William James
The Will to Believe
Pragmatism
30. Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
A Free Man's Worship
31. G.E. Moore
Philosophical Papers
32. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophical Investigations
33. Edmund Husserl
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
34. Martin Heidegger
The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics
35. Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
Existentialism and Humanism
36. A.J. Ayer
Language, Truth and Logic
37. Thomas Nagel
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
38. Philippa Foot
Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives
39. Nelson Goodman
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
40. John Rawls
Justice as Fairness