Ten Great Works of Philosophy
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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. 1. Plato: Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates, fro...
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. 1. Plato: Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates, from Phado 2. Aristotle: Poetics 3. St. Ansem: The ontological Proof of St. Ansem, from Proslogium 4. St. Thomas Aquinas: St. Thomas' Proofs of God's Existence, from the SummaTheologica 5. René Descartes: Meditations on the First Philosophy 6. David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding 7. Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics 8. John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism 9. William James: The Will to Believe
