ABSTRACT

In his exemplary clear style, Warburton introduces and assesses twenty-seven philosophical classics from Plato’s Republic to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. For the third edition there is  new text design and revised further reading make this the ideal book for all students, while three new chapters on Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy and Sartre’s Existentialism and Humanism mean that all the A Level set texts are covered.

This brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy explores the works of Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Mill, Kierkegaard, Marx and Engels, Nietzsche, Russell, Ayer, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Rawls.

Offering twenty-seven guidebooks for the price of one, this is the most comprehensive introduction to philosophers and their texts currently available.

chapter |4 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|14 pages

PLATO THE REPUBLIC

chapter |12 pages

ARISTOTLE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

chapter 3|6 pages

BOETHIUS THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY

chapter 4|8 pages

NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI THE PRINCE

chapter 5|13 pages

RENÉ DESCARTES MEDITATIONS

chapter 6|10 pages

THOMAS HOBBES LEVIATHAN

chapter 7|6 pages

BARUCH DE SPINOZA ETHICS

chapter 12|7 pages

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

chapter 13|7 pages

IMMANUEL KANT CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

chapter 16|11 pages

JOHN STUART MILL ON LIBERTY

chapter 17|7 pages

JOHN STUART MILL UTILITARIANISM

chapter 18|8 pages

SØREN KIERKEGAARD EITHER/OR

chapter 23|12 pages

A. J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic

chapter 24|12 pages

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE BEING AND NOTHINGNESS

chapter 25|10 pages

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE EXISTENTIALISM AND HUMANISM

chapter 27|8 pages

JOHN RAWLS A THEORY OF JUSTICE