6th Edition

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida

Edited By Forrest Baird Copyright 2010
    1232 Pages
    by Routledge

    1232 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    PREFACE  


    ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY  

        SOCRATES AND PLATO  
            Euthyphro  
            Apology  
            Crito  
            Phaedo
            Republic

        ARISTOTLE  
            Physics
            Metaphysics
            On the Soul
            Nicomachean Ethics

    HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY  

        EPICURUS  
            Letter to Menoeceus  
            Principal Doctrines  

        EPICTETUS  
            Handbook (Enchiridion)  

        PYRRHO AND SEXTUS EMPIRICUS  
            Outlines of Pyrrhonism

        PLOTINUS  
            Enneads

    CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY  

        AUGUSTINE   272
            Confessions
            City of God

        BOETHIUS  
            The Consolation of Philosophy

        ANSELM (AND GUANILO)  
            Proslogion
            Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate (selections)  

        HILDEGARD OF BINGEN  
            Scivias

        MOSES MAIMONIDES  
            The Guide for the Perplexed

        THOMAS AQUINAS  
            Summa Theologica (selections)  

        WILLIAM OF OCKHAM  
            Summa Logicae

        GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA  
            Oration on the Dignity of Man (in part) 

    MODERN PHILOSOPHY  

        RENÉ DESCARTES  
            Meditations on the First Philosophy  
            Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth (selections)  

        THOMAS HOBBES  
            Leviathan

        BLAISE PASCAL  
            Pensées (selections)  

        BARUCH SPINOZA  
            Ethics

        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  
            Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals  
            On a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives  

        MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT  
            A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY  

        G.W.F. HEGEL  
            Phenomenology of Spirit

            Lectures on the History of Philosophy

        JOHN STUART MILL  
            Utilitarianism  

        SØREN KIERKEGAARD  
            Fear and Trembling
            Concluding Unscientific Postscript

        KARL MARX  
            Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
            Manifesto of the Communist Party
            A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
            Notes on Bakunin’s Statehood and Anarchy

        CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE  
            The Fixation of Belief  

        WILLIAM JAMES  
            Pragmatism (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)  

        FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE  
            The Birth of Tragedy
            The Gay Science
            Twilight of the Idols
            The Anti-Christ

    TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY  

        EDMUND HUSSERL  
            Phenomenology

        W.E.B. DU BOIS  
            The Souls of Black Folks

        BERTRAND RUSSELL  
            The Problems of Philosophy

        MARTIN HEIDEGGER  
            Introduction to Metaphysics

        LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN  
            Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
            Philosophical Investigations

        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")  

    Biography

    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.