6th Edition
Philosophic Classics, Volume II: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers. First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision of Philosophic Classics, Pearson Education's long-standing anthology (available in split volumes), 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. For more information on the main combined anthology, or the additional period volumes, please see below: Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida, 6/E ISBN-10: 0205783864Philosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy, 6/E ISBN-10: 0205783856Philosophic Classics, Volume III: Modern Philosophy, 6/E ISBN-10: 0205783899
Early Christianity
Dialogue with Trypho (in part)
Justin Martyr
Appology (in part)
Justin Martyr
Stromateis (in part)
Clement of Alexandria
A Treatise on the Soul (in part)
Stromateis Tertullian
Prescriptions Against the Heretics (in part)
Stromateis Tertullian
On First Principles (in part)
Origen
Other Foundational Documents
On the Account of the World's Creation Given by Moses ( II-VI, XLIV-XLVI)
Philo of Alexandria
Enneads (Ennead I, Tractate VI)
Plotinus
The Divine Names (Chapter 4, sections 18-21, 30; Chapter 7, 3)
Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite
On the Free Choice of the Will (Book II)
Augustine
Confessions (Book VIII, 5, 8-12; Book XI, 14-28)
Augustine
City of God (Book VIII, Chapters 1-12; Book XI, Chapter 26; Book XII, Chapters 1-9; Book XIX, Chapters 11-17)
Augustine
Early Medieval Philosophy
The Second Editon of the Commentaries on the Isagoge of Porphyry (Book I Chapters 10-11)
Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy (Book V)
Boethius
On the Division of Nature (Periphyseon) (Book I, Chapters 1-7, 11-12, 13-14)
John Scotus Eriugena
Proslogion (Preface, Chapters 1-4)
Anslem
Anslem and Gaunilo: Debate
Anslem and Gaunilo
On Universals
Peter Abelard
Ethics (Prologue, Chapters 1-3, 10-12)
Peter Abelard
Scivias (Book I, Vision 4, Chapters 16-26)
Hildegard of Bingen
Metalogicon (Book II, Chapter 17)
John of Salisbury
Statesman (Policratus) (Chapters 1-3)
John of Salisbury
Islamic and Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Essay on the Secret of Destiny
Avicenna
Concerning the Soul (Chapters 1-2, 4, 6, 12-13)
Avicenna
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Introduction, and Preface One)
Al-Ghazali
The Decisive Treatise
Averroes
The Guide for the Perplexed ( Part I, Chapters 51-52, 58; Part II Introduction, Chapters 13,17; Part III, Chapter 12)
Maimonides
Thirteenth Century Philosophy
On Light
Robert Grosseteste
The Opus Majus (Part IV, 1,3; Part VI, 1-2)
Roger Bacon
The Mind's Road to God (Prologue, Chapters 1-3)
Bonaventure
On the Eternity of the World (selections)
Bonaventure
Question on the Eternity of the World The Condemnations of 1270 (complete) and 1277 (in part)
Siger of Brabant
Summa Theologica (selections)
Thomas Aquinas
The Principles of Nature
Elihu Palmer
Late Medieval Philosophy
A Treatise on God as First Principle (Chapter 3)
John Duns Scotus
Reportata Parisiensia (in part)
John Duns Scotus
Prologue to the Ordinatio
John Duns Scotus
On Universals (Summa Logicae, Part I, Chapters 14-16; Part II, Chapter 2)
William of Ockham
On Being (Summa Logicae, Part I, Chapter 38)
William of Ockham
On Knowledge (Quodlibetal Questions, First Quodlibet, Question 13)
William of Ockham
On God (selections)
William of Ockham
On Politics (eight Questions on the Power of the Pope, Questions 2, Chapters 1,7)
William of Ockham
Sermon #1
Meister Eckhart
Letter # 58
Catherine of Siena
Renaissance Philosophy
On Learned Ignorance (Chapter 1-4, 26)
Ncholas Cusanas
Oration on the Dignity of Man (in part)
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
The Prince (Chapters 15-18, 25)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Utopia (in part)
Thomas More
Apology for Raymond Sebond (Chapter 3)
Michel De Montiagne
On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of the Concordia (in part)
Luis De Molina
Of the Infinite, the Universe, and the Worlds (in part)
Giordano Bruno
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.
