Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy.

Autorentext

Forrest E. Baird was Professor of Philosophy at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA from 1978 until he retired in 2021. He taught a wide range of courses focusing on the history of Western intellectual thought as well as logic and philosophy of religion. Baird has a B.A. from Westmont College, an M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. His most recent publication is How Do We Reason: An Introduction to Logic (IVP, 2021). His other works include Human Thought and Action: Readings in Western Intellectual History (UPA, 1992) and Introduction to Philosophy: A Case Study Approach (Harper & Row, 1981, co-authored with Jack Rogers).

Klappentext

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy.

Zusammenfassung
Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy.

Inhalt

Preface
Timeline

PART I: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY

Socrates and Plato
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo (72c83e, 114e118b)
Republic (Book I, 336b342e, 347be; Book II, 357a362c, 368a376e; Book III, 412b417b; Book IV, 427c445e; Book V, 449462e, 473be; and Books VIVII, 502c521b) 59

Aristotle
Physics (Book II, complete)
Metaphysics (Book I, 14, 6, 9; and Book XII, 69)
On the Soul (Book II, Chapters 13; and Book III, 45)
Nicomachean Ethics (Books III; Book IV, 3; Books VIVII; and Book X, 68)

PART II: HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY

Epicurus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines

Epictetus
Handbook (Enchiridion)

Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 113)

Plotinus
Porphyry's Life of Plotinus (selections)
Enneads (Ennead I, Tractate 6)

PART III: CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Augustine
Confessions (Book VIII, 5, 812; and Book XI, 1428)
City of God (Book XI, Chapter 26; and Book XII, Chapters 19)

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy (Book V, Chapter 6)

Anselm (and Gaunilo)
Proslogion (Preface; Chapters 14)
Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate (selections)

Hildegard of Bingen
Scivias (Book I, Vision 4, 1626)

Moses Maimonides
The Guide for the Perplexed (Part II, Introduction)

Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica (selections)

William of Ockham
Summa Logicae (On Universals Part I, Chapters 1416)

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Oration on the Dignity of Man (in part)

PART IV: MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Francis Bacon
Novum Organum (Preface, Book I, Chapters 3-4, 7-8, 11-12, 14, 19, 22, 24-25, 31, 36, 38-44; Book II, Chapter 10)

René Descartes
Meditations on the First Philosophy
Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth (selections)

Thomas Hobbes*Leviathan* (selections from Chapters 13, 6, 9, 1215, 1718, 21)

Blaise Pascal*Pensées* (selections)

Baruch Spinoza*Ethics* (Sections I and II)

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 MetaphysicsGroundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsOn a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives*

Mary Wollstonecraft*A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* (Chapter 6)

PART V: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

G.W.F. Hegel*Phenomenology of Spirit (B, IV, A: "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Relations of Master and Servant")
Lectures on the History of Philosophy* ("The Final Result")

John Stuart Mill*Utilitarianism*

Søren Kierkegaard*Fear and Trembling (Problema I: "Teleological Suspension of the Ethical")
Concluding Unscientific Postscript* (Section II, Chapter 2, "Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth Is Subjectivity")

Karl Marx*Theses on Feuerbach
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 ("Alienated Labor")
Manifesto of the Communist Party (Chapters 1 and 2)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Preface)
Notes on Bakunin's* Statehood and Anarchy (selections)

William James*Pragmatism* (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)

Friedrich Nietzsche*The Birth of Tragedy (Chapters 13)
The Gay Science (selections)
Twilight of the Idols (selections)
The Anti-Christ* (First Book, 27, 62)

PART VI: TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
Edited by Hans Bynagle

Edmund Husserl*Phenomenology (Encyclopaedia Brittanica* article)

W.E.B. Du Bois*The Souls of Black Folks* (Chapter 1)

Bertrand Russell*The Problems of Philosophy* (Chapters 1 & 15)

Martin Heidegger*Introduction to Metaphysics* (Chapter 1: "The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics") 1101

Ludwig Wittgenstein*Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Preface Sections 13.1431,4, 4.06, 4.1, 5, 5.6, 6.47) 1131
Philosophical Investigations* (Paragraphs 147, 6571, 241, 257258, 305, 309) 1139

A.J. Ayer
Language, Truth and Logic (Preface and Chapter 1: "Elimination of Metaphysics")

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")