The Eighth Edition of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy offers the same exacting standard of editing and translation that made earlier editions of this anthology the most highly valued and widely used volume of its kind. But the Eighth Edition offers exciting new content as well, including Plato's Laches (complete), new selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (on courage), Descartes' Discourse on Method (complete), all previously omitted sections of Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, and Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (complete).
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For more than forty years, this extraordinary primary source-based anthology, offering unparalleled breadth and depth, pre-eminent translations, and expert introductions by leading historians of philosophy, has been the volume of choice for use in historically-oriented introductory philosophy courses.
The Eighth Edition of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy offers the same exacting standard of editing and translation that made earlier editions of this anthology the most highly valued and widely used volume of its kind. But the Eighth Edition offers exciting new content as well:
These additions—with no offsetting deletion of content of the Seventh Edition—yield an anthology of unrivaled versatility, the only one to offer the complete texts of:
About the Author:
Steven M. Cahn is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Plato:
Laches, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Meno, Symposium, Republic (selections)*
Aristotle:
Categories (Chapters 1-5), On Interpretation (selections), Posterior Analytics (selections), Physics (selections), On the soul (selections), Metaphysics (selections), Nicomachean Ethics (selections)
Epicurus:
Letter to Menoeceus, The Principal Docterines
Epictetus:
Encheiridion
Sextus Empiricus:
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (selections)
Augustine:
On Free Choice of the Will (selections), Confessions (Book XI)
Plotinus:
Enneads (selections)
Boethius:
Consolation of Philosophy (selections)
Anselm:
Proslogion, Gaunilo's Reply on Behalf of the Fool, Anselm's Reply to Gaunilo
Moses Maimonides:
The Guide of the Perplexed (selections)
Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae (selections)
Levi Gersonides:
The Wars of the Lord (selections)
William of Ockham:
Summa Logicae (selections)
Rene Descartes:
Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy
Thomas Hobbes:
Leviathan (selections)
Baruch Spinoza:
Ethics (Parts, I, II)
Gottfried Leibniz:
Discourse on Metaphysics, Monadology
John Lockez:
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selections)
George Berkeley:
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
David Hume:
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, A Treatise of Human Nature (selections), Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Immanuel Kant:
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Critique of Pure Reason (selections), Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
G.W.F. Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit (selections)
Arthur Schopenhauer:
The World as Will and Representation (selections)
Soren Kierkegaard:
Concluding Unscientific Postscript (selections)
John Stuart Mill:
Utilitarianism, On Liberty (selections)
Friedrich Nietzsche:
Twilight of the Idols
Charles Sanders Peirce:
The Fixation of Belief, How to Make Our Ideas Clear
William James:
What Pragmatism Means, The Will to Believe
Bertrand Russell:
The Problems of Philosophy (Chapters I-V)
Edmund Husserl:
Paris Lectures (selections)
Jean-Paul Sarte:
The Humanism of Existentialism
Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Philosophical Investigations (selections)
J. L. Austin:
Sense and Sensibilia (Chapters I-III, V)