Classics of Western Philosophy (Eighth Edition)

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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Edited by Steven M. Cahn

October 2012 - 1,424 pp.

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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:

  • 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
  • Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (complete) 

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:

  • both Descartes' Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
  • both Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
  • Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics and selections from the Critique of Pure Reason

 

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)*

  • * Republic selections: Book 1: 327a-354c (complete), Book 2: 357a-376c, Book 3: 412b-417b, Book 4: 427d-445e, Book 5: summary, Book 6: 502e-511e, Book 7: 514a-521b, Book 8: summary, Book 9: 571a-592b, Book 10: summary

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)