Ten Great Works of Philosophy - Various

Ten Great Works of Philosophy by Various

Format: Mass-Market Paperback

Published by Signet, 2002

In its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Each philosopher in this volume made intellectual history; each created a revolution in ideas; each reaffirmed man’s view of himself as a sentient being capable of creating order out of the baffling contradictions of existence. And the most powerful reflections and speculations of each are represented here.

• Plato: Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates, from Phado
• Aristotle: Poetics
• St. Ansem: The ontological Proof of St. Ansem, from Proslogium
• St. Thomas Aquinas: St. Thomas’ Proofs of God’s Existence, from the SummaTheologica
• René Descartes: Meditations on the First Philosophy
• David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
• John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
• William James: The Will to Believe