Description
Now in its fourth edition, Philosophy: The Classics is a brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy. In his exemplary clear style, Nigel Warburton introduces and assesses thirty-two philosophical classics from Plato’s Republic to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. The fourth edition includes new material on:
- Montaigne Essays
- Thomas Paine Rights of Man
- R.G. Collingwood The Principles of Art
- Karl Popper The Open Society and Its Enemies
- Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
With a glossary and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, this is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 Plato The Republic; Chapter 2 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics; Chapter 3 Boethius the Consolation of Philosophy; Chapter 4 Niccolò Machiavelli the Prince; Chapter 5 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays; Chapter 6 René Descartes Meditations; Chapter 7 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan; Chapter 8 Baruch de Spinoza Ethics; Chapter 9 John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Chapter 10 John Locke Second Treatise of Government; Chapter 11 David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; Chapter 12 David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; Chapter 13 Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract; Chapter 14 Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason; Chapter 15 Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Chapter 16 Thomas Paine Rights of Man; Chapter 17 Arthur Schopenhauer The World as will and Idea; Chapter 18 John Stuart Mill on Liberty; Chapter 19 John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism; Chapter 20 Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or; Chapter 21 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The German Ideology, Part One; Chapter 22 Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil; Chapter 23 Friedrich Nietzsche on the Genealogy of Morality; Chapter 24 Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy; Chapter 25 A. J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic; Chapter 26 R.G. Collingwood the Principles of Art; Chapter 27 Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness; Chapter 28 Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism and Humanism; Chapter 29 Karl Popper The Open Society and its Enemies; Chapter 30 Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations; Chapter 31 Thomas Kuhn the Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Chapter 32 John Rawls a Theory of Justice;
