ABSTRACT
First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision of Philosophic Classics 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. 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |226 pages
Ancient Greek Philosophy
chapter |122 pages
Socrates 470–399 b.c.; Plato 428/7–348/7 b.c.
chapter |102 pages
Aristotle 384–322 b.c.
part |38 pages
Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy
chapter |9 pages
Epicurus 341–270 b.c.
chapter |13 pages
Epictetus ca. a.d. 50–ca. a.d. 130
chapter |6 pages
Pyrrho ca. 360–ca. 270 b.c.; Sextus Empiricus a.d. third century
chapter |7 pages
Plotinus ca. a.d. 204–270
part |103 pages
Christianity and Medieval Philosophy
chapter |28 pages
Augustine a.d. 354–430
chapter |6 pages
Boethius ca. a.d. 480–ca. a.d. 524
chapter |8 pages
Anselm (and Gaunilo) 1033–1109
chapter |7 pages
Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179
chapter |6 pages
Moses Maimonides 1135–1204
chapter |31 pages
Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
chapter |8 pages
William of Ockham ca. 1285–1349
chapter |4 pages
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463–1494
part |534 pages
Modern Philosophy
chapter |48 pages
René Descartes 1596–1650
chapter |40 pages
Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679
chapter |9 pages
Blaise Pascal 1623–1662
chapter |53 pages
Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677
chapter |55 pages
John Locke 1632–1704
chapter |41 pages
Gottfried Leibniz 1646–1716
chapter |62 pages
George Berkeley 1685–1753
chapter |81 pages
David Hume 1711–1776
chapter |13 pages
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778
chapter |123 pages
Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
chapter |7 pages
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759–1797
part |156 pages
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
chapter |13 pages
G.W.F. Hegel 1770–1831
chapter |42 pages
John Stuart Mill 1806–1873
chapter |21 pages
Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855
chapter |24 pages
Karl Marx 1818–1883
chapter |12 pages
Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914
chapter |14 pages
William James 1842–1910
chapter |28 pages
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
part |157 pages
Twentieth-Century Philosophy