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Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy. In updating this Seventh Edition, editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late-Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established: (1) to use complete works or, where more appropriate, complete sections of works (2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to each thinker's philosophy or widely accepted as part of the canon. To make the works more accessible to students, most footnotes treating textual matters (variant readings, etc.) have been omitted and important words from antiquity have been transliterated and put in angle brackets. In addition, each thinker is introduced by a brief essay composed of three sections: (1) biographical (a glimpse of the life), (2) philosophical (a résumé of the philosopher's thought), and (3) bibliogra

Table of Contents

Preface
Timeline

PART I: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY

Socrates and Plato
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo (72c–83e, 114e–118b)
Republic (Book I, 336b–342e, 347b–e; Book II, 357a–362c, 368a–376e; Book III, 412b–417b; Book IV, 427c–445e; Book V, 449–462e, 473b–e; and Books VI–VII, 502c–521b) 59

Aristotle
Physics (Book II, complete)
Metaphysics (Book I, 1–4, 6, 9; and Book XII, 6–9)
On the Soul (Book II, Chapters 1–3; and Book III, 4–5)
Nicomachean Ethics (Books I–II; Book IV, 3; Books VI–VII; and Book X, 6–8)

PART II: HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY

Epicurus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines

Epictetus
Handbook (Enchiridion)

Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1–13)

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

PART III: CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Augustine
Confessions (Book VIII, 5, 8–12; and Book XI, 14–28)
City of God (Book XI, Chapter 26; and Book XII, Chapters 1–9)

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

Anselm (and Gaunilo)
Proslogion (Preface; Chapters 1–4)
Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate (selections)

Hildegard of Bingen
Scivias (Book I, Vision 4, 16–26)

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 14–16)

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 HobbesLeviathan (selections from Chapters 1–3, 6, 9, 12–15, 17–18, 21)

Blaise PascalPensées (selections)

Baruch SpinozaEthics (Sections I and II)

John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding (abridged)

Gottfried LeibnizDiscourse on MetaphysicsThe Monadology

George BerkeleyThree Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Social Contract (Book I)

Immanuel KantProlegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsGroundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsOn a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives

Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Chapter 6)

PART V: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

G.W.F. HegelPhenomenology 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 MillUtilitarianism

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

Karl MarxTheses 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 JamesPragmatism (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)

Friedrich NietzscheThe Birth of Tragedy (Chapters 1–3)
The Gay Science (selections)
Twilight of the Idols (selections)
The Anti-Christ (First Book, 2–7, 62)

PART VI: TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
Edited by Hans Bynagle

Edmund HusserlPhenomenology (Encyclopaedia Brittanica article)

W.E.B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black Folks (Chapter 1)

Bertrand RussellThe Problems of Philosophy (Chapters 1 & 15)

Martin HeideggerIntroduction to Metaphysics (Chapter 1: "The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics") 1101

Ludwig WittgensteinTractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Preface Sections 1–3.1431,4, 4.06, 4.1, 5, 5.6, 6.4–7) 1131
Philosophical Investigations (Paragraphs 1–47, 65–71, 241, 257–258, 305, 309) 1139

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

Jean-Paul SartreExistentialism Is a Humanism

Simone De BeauvoirThe Second Sex (Introduction)

Willard Van Orman QuineTwo Dogmas of Empiricism

Jacques DerridaOf Grammatology ("The Written Being/The Being Written")

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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy. In updating this Seventh Edition, editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late-Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established: (1) to use complete works or, where more appropriate, complete sections of works (2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to each thinker's philosophy or widely accepted as part of the canon. To make the works more accessible to students, most footnotes treating textual matters (variant readings, etc.) have been omitted and important words from antiquity have been transliterated and put in angle brackets. In addition, each thinker is introduced by a brief essay composed of three sections: (1) biographical (a glimpse of the life), (2) philosophical (a résumé of the philosopher's thought), and (3) bibliogra

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Timeline

      PART I: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY

      Socrates and Plato
      Euthyphro
      Apology
      Crito
      Phaedo       (72c–83e, 114e–118b)
      Republic (Book I, 336b–342e, 347b–e; Book II, 357a–362c, 368a–376e; Book III, 412b–417b; Book IV, 427c–445e; Book V, 449–462e, 473b–e; and Books VI–VII, 502c–521b) 59

      Aristotle
      Physics (Book II, complete)
      Metaphysics (Book I, 1–4, 6, 9; and Book XII, 6–9)
      On the Soul (Book II, Chapters 1–3; and Book III, 4–5)
      Nicomachean Ethics (Books I–II; Book IV, 3; Books VI–VII; and Book X, 6–8)

      PART II: HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY

      Epicurus
      Letter to Menoeceus
      Principal Doctrines

      Epictetus
      Handbook (Enchiridion)

      Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus
      Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1–13)

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

      PART III: CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

      Augustine
      Confessions (Book VIII, 5, 8–12; and Book XI, 14–28)
      City of God (Book XI, Chapter 26; and Book XII, Chapters 1–9)

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

      Anselm (and Gaunilo)
      Proslogion (Preface; Chapters 1–4)
      Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate (selections)

      Hildegard of Bingen
      Scivias (Book I, Vision 4, 16–26)

      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 14–16)

      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 HobbesLeviathan (selections from Chapters 1–3, 6, 9, 12–15, 17–18, 21)

      Blaise PascalPensées (selections)

      Baruch SpinozaEthics (Sections I and II)

      John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding (abridged)

      Gottfried LeibnizDiscourse on MetaphysicsThe Monadology

      George BerkeleyThree Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

      David HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

      Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Social Contract (Book I)

      Immanuel KantProlegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsGroundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsOn a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives

      Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Chapter 6)

      PART V: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

      G.W.F. HegelPhenomenology 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 MillUtilitarianism

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

      Karl MarxTheses 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 JamesPragmatism (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)

      Friedrich NietzscheThe Birth of Tragedy (Chapters 1–3)
      The Gay Science (selections)
      Twilight of the Idols (selections)
      The Anti-Christ (First Book, 2–7, 62)

      PART VI: TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
      Edited by Hans Bynagle

      Edmund HusserlPhenomenology (Encyclopaedia Brittanica article)

      W.E.B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black Folks (Chapter 1)

      Bertrand RussellThe Problems of Philosophy (Chapters 1 & 15)

      Martin HeideggerIntroduction to Metaphysics (Chapter 1: "The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics") 1101

      Ludwig WittgensteinTractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Preface Sections 1–3.1431,4, 4.06, 4.1, 5, 5.6, 6.4–7) 1131
      Philosophical Investigations (Paragraphs 1–47, 65–71, 241, 257–258, 305, 309) 1139

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

      Jean-Paul SartreExistentialism Is a Humanism

      Simone De BeauvoirThe Second Sex (Introduction)

      Willard Van Orman QuineTwo Dogmas of Empiricism

      Jacques DerridaOf Grammatology ("The Written Being/The Being Written")

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