Philosophy: The Classics

<p>Now in its fourth edition, <em>Philosophy: The Classics</em> is a brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy. In his exemplary clear style, Nigel Warburton introduces and assesses thirty-two philosophical classics from Plato’s <em>Republic</em> to Rawls’ <em>A Theory of Justice</em>. The fourth edition includes new material on:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Montaigne <em>Essays </em> </li> <li>Thomas Paine <em>Rights of Man </em> </li> <li>R.G. Collingwood <em>The Principles of Art </em> </li> <li>Karl Popper <em>The Open Society and Its Enemies</em> </li> <li>Thomas Kuhn <em>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</em> </li> </ul><p>With a glossary and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, this is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in philosophy.</p> <p>1. Plato <em>The Republic</em> 2. Aristotle <em>Nicomachean Ethics</em> 3. Boethius <em>The Consolation of Philosophy</em> 4. Niccolò Machiavlli <em>The Prince</em> 5. Montaigne <em>The Essays </em> 6. René Descartes <em>Meditations </em> 7. Thomas Hobbes <em>Leviathan</em> 8. Baruch de Spinoza <em>Ethics </em> 9. John Locke <em>An Essay Concerning Human Understanding</em> 10. John Locke <em>Second Treatise of Government</em> 11. David Hume <em>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding</em> 12. David Hume <em>Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion</em> 13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau <em>The Social Contract</em> 14. Immanuel Kant <em>Critique of Pure Reason</em> 15. Immanuel Kant <em>Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals</em> 16. Thomas Paine <em>The Rights of Man</em> 17. Arthur Schopenhauer <em>The World as Will and Idea</em> 18. G.F. Hegel <em>Phenomenology of Spirit</em> 19. John Stuart Mill <em>On Liberty</em> 20. John Stuart Mill <em>Utilitarianism</em> 21. Søren Kierkegaard <em>Either/Or</em> 22. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels <em>The German</em> <em>Ideology, Part</em> <em>One</em> 23. Friedrich Nietzsche <em>Beyond Good and Evil</em> 24. Friedrich Nietzsche <em>On the Genealogy of Morality</em> 25. Bertrand Russell <em>The Problems of Philosophy</em> 26. Martin Heidegger <em>Being and Time</em> 27. A.J. Ayer <em>Language, Truth and Logic</em> 28. R. G. Collingwood <em>The Principles of Art</em> 29. Jean-Paul Sartre <em>Being and Nothingness, Existentialism and Humanism</em> 30. Simone de Beauvoir <em>The Second Sex</em> 31. Ludwig Wittgenstein <em>Philosophical Investigations</em> 32. John Rawls <em>A Theory of Justice </em> 33. Michel Foucault <em>Discipline and Punish</em></p>