Classics of Philosophy

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Pub. Date: 1997-10-02
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Classics of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern and Contemporary covers the works of philosophers from Descartes to Rawls. Ideal for courses in modern and contemporary philosophy, it includes forty-eight extensive selections--seventeen of them complete--from twenty-nine philosophers. This collectionoffers an unrivaled introduction to the major works of these periods. A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers. Also look for Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval, which covers the works of philosophers from Thales to William of Ockham. In addition, there is a single-volume edition available that combines Volume I and Volume II, providing the most comprehensive anthology of writings inwestern philosophy in print.

Author Biography


Louis P. Pojman is Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is the author or editor of over twenty books and numerous articles.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Time Line xi
PART III: THE MODERN PERIOD
Rene Descartes
463(28)
Meditations on First Philosophy
465(26)
Thomas Hobbes
491(38)
Leviathan or The Matter, Form, & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil
493(36)
Blaise Pascal
529(4)
Pensees
530(3)
Baruch Spinoza
533(45)
Ethic
534(44)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
578(36)
Discourse on Metaphysics
581(21)
The Monadology
602(7)
Theodicy: Abridgement of the Argument Reduced to Syllogistic Form
609(5)
John Locke
614(30)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
615(29)
George Berkeley
644(23)
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
646(21)
William Paley
667(3)
Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature
667(3)
David Hume
670(101)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
672(56)
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
728(43)
Immanuel Kant
771(86)
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
774(46)
Foundation for the Metaphysic of Morals
820(37)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
857(7)
Phenomenology of Spirit
859(5)
Arthur Schopenhauer
864(37)
The World as Will and Representation
865(23)
Essay on the Freedom of the Will
888(13)
Soren Kierkegaard
901(12)
Readings
902(3)
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
905(8)
John Stuart Mill
913(82)
Utilitarianism
914(31)
On Liberty
945(36)
The Subjection of Women
981(14)
Karl Marx
995(19)
Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
996(1)
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
997(14)
The German Ideology
1011(3)
Friedrich Nietzsche
1014(33)
Aphorisms
1015(1)
Joyful Wisdom
1016(1)
Beyond Good and Evil
1017(5)
Twilight of the Idols
1022(12)
The Anti-Christ
1034(13)
PART IV: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
W. K. Clifford
1047(5)
The Ethics of Belief
1048(4)
Charles Sanders Peirce
1052(10)
The Fixation of Belief
1053(9)
William James
1062(23)
The Will to Believe
1063(7)
Pragmatism
1070(15)
Bertrand Russell
1085(54)
The Problems of Philosophy
1086(48)
A Free Man's Worship
1134(5)
G. E. Moore
1139(8)
Philosophical Papers
1140(7)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1147(18)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
1148(8)
Philosophical Investigations
1156(9)
Edmund Husserl
1165(15)
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
1166(14)
Martin Heidegger
1180(21)
The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics
1181(20)
Jean-Paul Sartre
1201(17)
Being and Nothingness
1202(11)
Existentialism and Humanism
1213(5)
A. J. Ayer
1218(8)
Language, Truth and Logic
1219(7)
W. V. O. Quine
1226(14)
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
1227(13)
Nelson Goodman
1240(5)
Fact, Fiction and Forecast
1240(5)
John Rawls
1245(2)
Justice as Fairness
1247

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