Ten Great Works of Philosophy

Author: Various

Brand: Signet

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reissue

Binding: mass_market

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 592

Release Date: 01-03-2002

Part Number: 9780451528308

Details: In its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Each philosopher in this volume made intellectual history; each created a revolution in ideas; each reaffirmed man’s view of himself as a sentient being capable of creating order out of the baffling contradictions of existence. And the most powerful reflections and speculations of each are represented here.
Plato: Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates, from Phado
Aristotle: Poetics
St. Ansem: The ontological Proof of St. Ansem, from Proslogium
St. Thomas Aquinas: St. Thomas’ Proofs of God’s Existence, from the SummaTheologica
René Descartes: Meditations on the First Philosophy
David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
William James: The Will to Believe

EAN: 9780451528308

Package Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.4 inches

Languages: English