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:
PREFACE
ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY
SOCRATES AND PLATO
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Republic
ARISTOTLE
Physics
Metaphysics
On the Soul
Nicomachean Ethics
HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY
EPICURUS
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines
EPICTETUS
Handbook (Enchiridion)
PYRRHO AND SEXTUS EMPIRICUS
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
PLOTINUS
Enneads
CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
AUGUSTINE 272
Confessions
City of God
BOETHIUS
The Consolation of Philosophy
ANSELM (AND GUANILO)
Proslogion
Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate (selections)
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
Scivias
MOSES MAIMONIDES
The Guide for the Perplexed
THOMAS AQUINAS
Summa Theologica (selections)
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM
Summa Logicae
GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA
Oration on the Dignity of Man (in part)
MODERN PHILOSOPHY
RENÉ DESCARTES
Meditations on the First Philosophy
Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth (selections)
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
BLAISE PASCAL
Pensées (selections)
BARUCH SPINOZA
Ethics
JOHN LOCKE
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (abridged)
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ
Discourse on Metaphysics
The Monadology
GEORGE BERKELEY
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
DAVID HUME
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
The Social Contract (Book I)
IMMANUEL KANT
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
On a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
G.W.F. HEGEL
Phenomenology of Spirit
Lectures on the History of Philosophy
JOHN STUART MILL
Utilitarianism
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Fear and Trembling
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
KARL MARX
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Manifesto of the Communist Party
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Notes on Bakunin’s Statehood and Anarchy
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE
The Fixation of Belief
WILLIAM JAMES
Pragmatism (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Birth of Tragedy
The Gay Science
Twilight of the Idols
The Anti-Christ
TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
EDMUND HUSSERL
Phenomenology
W.E.B. DU BOIS
The Souls of Black Folks
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The Problems of Philosophy
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Introduction to Metaphysics
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophical Investigations
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Existentialism Is a Humanism
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Second Sex (Introduction)
WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
JACQUES DERRIDA
Of Grammatology ("The Written Being/The Being Written")
About the Author :
Forrest Baird has taught at Whitworth since 1978. In addition to teaching a variety of courses in philosophy, most summers he teaches for Fuller Theological Seminary in extension programs throughout the West. Dr. Baird has a B.A. from Westmont, an M.Div. From Fuller, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Baird's most recent scholarly work has been editing the six-volume Philosophic Classics series. His other works include editing the book, Human Thought and Action: Readings in Western Intellectual History, and co-authoring (with Jack Rogers) Introduction to Philosophy: A Case Study Approach.
