{"product_id":"the-classics-of-western-philosophy-a-readers-guide-paperback-softback-9780631236115","title":"The Classics of Western Philosophy; A Reader's Guide (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631236115","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Classics of Western Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Reader's Guide\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJorge J. E. Gracia (Edited by), Gregory M. Reichberg (Edited by), Bernard N. Schumacher (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631236115, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 December 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e640 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.3 x 3.5 cm, 1.052 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘This volume provides a strong statement of the continuing case that the classics of Western thought ought to be read and reflected upon as a component of the well-examined life. It also expands what counts as a classic, bringing the list up through to the 1960s, thus providing a thoughtful, pointed, and, above all, useful window into the development of Western thought over its whole history.’ \u003ci\u003eJames Turner Johnson, Rutgers University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This impressive collection of essays – many by some of the best-known philosophers writing today – provides a unique and first-rate introduction to Western philosophy from the time of the Pre-Socratics to the second half of the twentieth century. All the essays are clearly written, highly informative, and generous in their suggestions for further reading.\u003ci\u003e’\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian Davies, Fordham University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Classics of Western Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e brings together 61 newly-commissioned essays on classic texts ranging from Ancient Greece to the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurveying the history of philosophy, the book focuses on historical texts rather than historical figures and covers the entire range of classics in a single volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides 61 chapters written by leading experts on the classics of Western thought.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes current references to the scholarly literature in addition to a select bibliography of major articles and books.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributors include C.D.C. Reeve on Plato's \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e, Terrence Irwin on Aristotle's \u003ci\u003eNicomachean Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, Dominic O'Meara on Plotinus' \u003ci\u003eEnneads\u003c\/i\u003e, James Ross on Aquinas' \u003ci\u003eSumma Theologiae\u003c\/i\u003e, Don Garrett on Spinoza's \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e, Allen Wood on Kant's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Houlgate on Hegel's \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Dummett on Frege's 'Über Sinn und Bedeutung,' Hanjo Glock on Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eTractatus Logico-Philosophicus\u003c\/i\u003e and David Woodruff Smith on Husserl's \u003ci\u003eLogical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSurveys the history of philosophy by focussing on the historical texts rather than historical figures.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers the entire range of classics in a single volume.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Pre-Socratics, Fragments (c. 600–440 BC): The Birth of Philosophical Investigation. (T. M. Robinson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Plato, Phaedo (c. 385 BC): The Soul's Mediation Between Corporeality and the Good (Kenneth Dorter).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Plato, Republic (c. 380 BC): The Psycho-politics of Justice. (C. D. C. Reeve).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Aristotle, Metaphysics (367–323 BC): Substance, Form, and God. (Michael J. Loux).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (367–323 BC): A Sort of Political Science. (T. H. Irwin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Lucretius, De rerum natura (c. 99–55 BC): Breaking the Shackles of Religion (David Sedley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Plotinus, Enneads (250–270): A Philosophy for Crossing Boundaries. (Dominic J. O'Meara).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will (388–395): Evil, God's Foreknowledge, and Human Free Will. (Gareth B. Matthews).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Augustine, Confessions (c. 400): Real-life Philosophy. (Scott MacDonald).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (c. 525): How Far Can Philosophy Console? (John Marenbon).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion (c. 1078): On Thinking of That-than-which-a-Greater-Cannot-Be-Thought. (Jasper Hopkins).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Averroës, The Incoherence of “The Incoherence” (c. 1180): The Incoherence of the Philosophers. (Deborah L. Black).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed (c. 1190): The Perplexities of the Guide. (Alfred L. Ivry).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence (ante 1256): Toward a Metaphysics of Existence. (Jorge J. E. Gracia).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae (c. 1273): Christian Wisdom Explained Philosophically. (James F. Ross).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. John Duns Scotus, Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle (c. 1300): A New Direction for Metaphysics. (Timothy B. Noone).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. William of Ockham, Summa Logicae (c. 1324): Nominalism in Thought and Language. (Claude Panaccio).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Nicolas of Cusa, On Learned Ignorance (c. 1440): Byzantine Light en route to a Distant Shore. (Peter Casarella).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513): Politics as the Pursuit of Power. Bjørn Thommessen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Francisco de Vitoria, De Indis and De iure belli relectiones (1557): Philosophy Meets War. (Gregory M. Reichberg).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Francisco Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations (1597): From the Middle Ages to Modernity. (Jorge J. E. Gracia).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Francis Bacon, New Organon (1620): The Politics and Philosophy of Experimental Science. (Robert K. Faulkner).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641): Thought, Existence, and the Project of Science. (Emily R. Grosholz).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651): The Right of Nature and the Problem of Civil War. (Henrik Syse).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics (1677): The Metaphysics of Blessedness. (Don Garrett).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690): An Empirical View of Knowledge and Reality. (Vere Chappell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. George Berkeley, Three Dialogues (1713): Idealism, Skepticism, Common Sense. (George Pappas).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. G. W. Leibniz, Monadology (1714): What There Is in the Final Analysis. (Robert Sleigh).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Giambattista Vico, The New Science (1730\/1744): The Common Nature of Nations. (Donald Phillip Verene).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (1740): A Genial Skepticism, an Ethical Naturalism. (Fred Wilson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws (1748): From Political Philosophy to Political Science. (David W. Carrithers).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract (1762): Transforming Natural Man into Citizen. (Richard Velkley).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason (1781): A Lawful Revolution and a Coming of Age in Metaphysics. (Allen W. Wood).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785): Duty and Autonomy. (Andrews Reath).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Friedrich Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters (1795): The Play of Beauty as Means and End. (Daniel O. Dahlstrom).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (1795): Thinking Philosophically Without Begging the Question. (Stephen Houlgate).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. Karl Marx, The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844: Radical Criticism and Humanistic Vision. (William McBride).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (1846): Making Things Difficult for the System and for Christendom. (Merold Westphal).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859): The Rational Foundations of Individual Freedom. (G. W. Smith).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886): Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. (Richard Schacht).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. Gottlob Frege, “Über Sinn und Bedeutung” (1892): A Fundamental Distinction. (Michael Dummett).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations (1900-1901): From Logic through Ontology to Phenomenology. (David Woodruff Smith).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. William James, Varieties of Religious Experience (1902): Dimensions of Concrete Experience: Sandra B. Rosenthal (Loyola University at New Orleans).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica (1903): Ethical Analysis and Aesthetic Ideals. (Thomas Baldwin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. Charles Sanders Peirce, 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: The Practice of Inquiry. (Vincent Colapietro).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. Bertrand Russell, “On Denoting” (1905) and “Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory Of Types” (1908): Metaphysics to Logic and Back. (Stewart Shapiro).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1907): Analysis and Life. (F.C.T. Moore).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus (1921): The Essence of Representation. (Hans-Johann Glock).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1925): What You See Is What You Get. (John McDermott).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927): Authentic Temporal Existence. (Bernard N. Schumacher).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (1929): Scientific Revolutions and the Search for Covariant Metaphysical Principles. (George R. Lucas, Jr.).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934): Not Logic But Decision Procedure (Mariam Thalos).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943): The Prodigious Power of the Negative. (Thomas R. Flynn).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (1945): How is the Third-person Perspective Possible? (Stephen Priest).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55. R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (1946): History as the Science of Mind. (Jonathan Rée).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56. Gilbert Ryle, The Concept Of Mind (1949): A Method and a Theory. (Laird Addis).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953): Clarity versus Pretension. (Newton Garver).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58. P. F. Strawson, Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (1959): The Rehabilitation of Metaphysics. (David Bell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59. W. V. Quine, Word and Object (1960): The Metaphysics of Meaning. (Randall Dipert).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (1962): An Active View of Language. (Nicholas Fotion).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962): “Relativism” Hits the Headlines. 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