Central works of philosophy
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Central works of philosophy
Acumen Publishing, 2005-
- v. 1 : pbk
- v. 2 : pbk
- v. 3 : pbk
Available at 1 libraries
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v. 1 : pbk130.2:SJ12:14111018919,
v. 2 : pbk130.2:SJ12:24111018950, v. 3 : pbk130.2:SJ12:34111012961
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Editor, John Shand
Publisher varies: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press
Vol. 1. Ancient and medieval -- v. 2. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- v. 3. The nineteenth century
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Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781844650132
Description
This collection of essays showcases the most important and influential philosophical works of the ancient and medieval period, roughly from 600 BC to AD 1600. Each chapter takes a particular work of philosophy and discusses its proponent, its content and central arguments. These are: Plato's Republic; Aristotle' Nichomachean Ethics; Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe; Sextus Emperiicus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism; Plotinus' The Enneads; Augustine's City of God; Anselm's Proslogion; Aquinas' Summa Theologia; Duns Scotus' Ordinatio; William of Ockham's Summa Logicae .
Table of Contents
Contributors Preface Introduction: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy John Shand 1. Plato: Republic Hugh H. Benson 2. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics Paula Gottlieb 3. Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe Harry Lesser 4. Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism R. J. Hankinson 5. Plotinus: The Enneads Stephen R. L. Clark 6. Augustine: City of God Christopher Kirwan 7. Anselm: Proslogion John Marenbon 8. Aquinas: Summa Theologiae Paul O'Grady 9. Duns Scotus: Ordinatio Richard Cross 10. Ockham: Summa Logicae Peter King Index
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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781844650156
Description
Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to Quine's Word and Object, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers, each of them primary texts studied at undergraduate level. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance then and now. Each essay equips the reader with the resources and confidence to go on to read the works themselves. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpleces of the western philosophical canon and some of the greatest minds that have ever lived talking about the profoundest most exciting problems there are. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw a brilliant outpouring of philosophical thought unprecedented in human history. Together philosophy and science pushed medieval and Renaissance scholasticism aside to lay the foundations of the modern world. Beginning with Descartes' Meditations, the contributors examine some of the period's most seminal philosophical texts: Spinoza's Ethics, which presents a complete picture of reality that has at its heart how we can be good, the Monadology, in which Leibniz describes what must underpin reality if it is to be fully explained, Hobbes' Leviathan, which reminds us of the dangers of the unchecked brutality of humanity; Rousseau's Social Contract, a vision of how human nature can be changed for the better in a new society, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding which wishes us to grasp that we must make knowledge our own through experience not authority, Berkeley's attack on materialism in his Treatise and Hume's search for rational justification for our most basic beliefs about the world in his Treatise of Human Nature. Together these essays offer students a remarkable survey of the key texts and core ideas that make up the age of rationalism and empiricism.
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Contributors Preface Introduction: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy John Shand 1. Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy Janet Broughton 2. Spinoza: Ethics Steven Nadler 3. Leibniz: Monadology Douglas Burnham 4. Hobbes: Leviathan G. A. J. Rogers 5. Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding J. R. Milton 6. Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge Tom Stoneham 7. Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature P. J. E. Kail 8. Rousseau: The Social Contract Jonathan Riley Index
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v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9781844650170
Description
Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpieces of the western philosophical canon. Much of nineteenth-century philosophy may be viewed as either an affirmation or rejection of Kant. This volume therefore begins with Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason. Michelle Grier provides a masterly distillation of this monumental work. Curtis Bowman explores the central text of the first of the great post-Kantian idealists, Fichte who extended Kantian philosophy in a new direction. Hegel, one of Kant's most formidable critics, is given incisive treatment by Michael Inwood in his presentation of the Phenomenology of Spirit. Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation, which hoped to solve many of the problems that Kant's philosophy left unsolved is explored in Dale Jacquette's chapter. The moral philosophy of John Stuart Mill, perhaps the only philosopher in this volume to circumvent Kant's influence, is examined in Jonathan Riley's essay on his classic work On Liberty. The philosophical ideas of Kierkegaard, widely credited as the founder of modern existentialism, are explored by Stephen Evans in his essay on Philosophical Fragments. Marx's Capital, one of the most influential books of the modern age, is given expert treatment by Tom Rockmore. The volume closes with Nietzsche, whose appropriation of Kant led to a radical anti-philosophy. Rex Welshon dissects his most philosophical and widely read work, On the Genealogy of Morals.
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Contributors Preface Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy John Shand 1. Kant: Critique of Pure Reason Michelle Grier 2. Fichte: The Science of Knowledge Curtis Bowman 3. Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit Michael Inwood 4. Schopenhauer: World as Will and Representation Dale Jacquette 5. Mill: On Liberty Jonathan Riley 6. Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments Stephen Evans 7. Marx: Capital Tom Rockmore 8. Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals Rex Welshon Index
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