Philosophy : the classics / Nigel Warburton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warburton, Nigel, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 294 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

In his exemplary clear style, Warburton introduces and assesses twenty-seven philosophical classics from Plato s Republic to Rawls A Theory of Justice. For the third edition there is new text design and revised further reading make this the ideal book for all students, while three new chapters on Nietzsche s Beyond Good and Evil, Russell s The Problems of Philosophy and Sartre s Existentialism and Humanism mean that all the A Level set texts are covered. This brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy explores the works of Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Mill, Kierkegaard, Marx and Engels, Nietzsche, Russell, Ayer, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Rawls. Offering twenty-seven guidebooks for the price of one, this is the most comprehensive introduction to philosophers and their texts currently available. -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introductions

1. Plato The Republic

2. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

3. Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy

4. Niccolo Machiavlli The Prince

5. Montaigne The Essays

6. Rene Descartes Meditations

7. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan

8. Baruch de Spinoza Ethics

9. John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

10. John Locke Second Treatise of Government

11. David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

12. David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract

14. Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason

15. Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

16. Thomas Paine The Rights of Man

17. Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Idea

18. John Stuart Mill On Liberty

19. John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism

20. Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or

21. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The German Ideology, Part One

22. Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

23. Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morality

24. Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy

25. A.J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic

26. R. G. Collingwood The Principles of Art

27. Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness

28. Jean-Paul Starte Existentialism and Humanism

29. Karl Popper The Open Society and Its Enemies

30. Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations

31. Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

32. John Rawls A Theory of Justice

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415534673

0415534674

9780415534666

0415534666

OCLC:

783169006