Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida

by Forrest Baird (Editor)

Overview

First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision of Philosophic Classics continues the tradition of providing generations of students with high quality course material. Using the complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections of works, this anthology allows philosophers to speak directly to students. Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138457461
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/30/2017
Series:	Philosophic Classics
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	1232
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Forrest Baird has taught at Whitworth since 1978. In addition to teaching a variety of courses in philosophy, most summers he teaches for Fuller Theological Seminary in extension programs throughout the West. Dr. Baird has a B.A. from Westmont, an M.Div. From Fuller, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Baird's most recent scholarly work has been editing the six-volume Philosophic Classics series. His other works include editing the book, Human Thought and Action: Readings in Western Intellectual History, and co-authoring (with Jack Rogers) Introduction to Philosophy: A Case Study Approach.

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

Blaise Pascal
Pensées (selections)

Baruch Spinoza
Ethics (Sections I and II)

John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (abridged)

Gottfried Leibniz
Discourse on Metaphysics
The Monadology

George Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract (Book I)

Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
On a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives

Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Chapter 6)

PART V: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

G.W.F. Hegel
Phenomenology 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 Mill
Utilitarianism

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

Karl Marx
Theses 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 James
Pragmatism (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)

Friedrich Nietzsche
The 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 Husserl
Phenomenology (Encyclopaedia Brittanica article)

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

Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy (Chapters 1 & 15)

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus 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 Sartre
Existentialism Is a Humanism

Simone De Beauvoir
The Second Sex (Introduction)

Willard Van Orman Quine
Two Dogmas of Empiricism

Jacques Derrida
Of Grammatology ("The Written Being/The Being Written")