Since Socrates A Concise Source Book of

Understand and analyze the great historical texts in philosophy with SINCE SOCRATES! Designed as a concise source book, this historically organized anthology provides you the tools you need to get a good grade. The readings are centered on three critical questions: ethics and the quest for the good life, truth and the problem of knowledge, and the existence of God. Brief introductions to each reading give essential biographical and contextual information on each of the philosophers to enhance your understanding. Studying is made easy with the book-specific website that contains tools such as essay questions, web links, and tutorial quizzes.

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PROLOGUE: BEFORE SOCRATES. the Vedas, Brahman, and Buddhism. Rg Veda. Bhagavad Gita. Teachings of the Buddha. Confucianism. Confucius/The Analects. Taoism. Lao-Tze/Tao Te Ching. Chuang Tze/Selections. the Pre-Socratics. Thales/Selections. Pythagoras/Selections. Heraclitus/Selections. Parmenides/The Way of Truth
Socrates and Plato. Apology. Euthyphro. Crito. Meno. Phaedo. Symposium. Phaedrus. Republic
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Categories. Metaphysics. Physics
Sextus Empiricus. From Outlines of Pyrrhonism
ST. Augustine. the Problem of Evil (City of God, XI, XIV)
ST. Anselm. the Ontological Proof of God
ST. Thomas aquinas. the Five Ways
Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan (13-15)
Rene descartes. Meditations
John Locke. Essay on Human Understanding. From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. On Personal Identity. From the Second Treatise on Government
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz. Monadology
Bishop George Berkeley. of the Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The re is No Self. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (continued). Treatise of Human Nature. From Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Immanuel Kant. Critique of Pure Reason. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
G.W.F. HEGEL. the Phenomenology of Spirit
Soren Kierkegaard. Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism. On Liberty
Friedrich Nietzsche. Gay Science. Beyond Good and Evil. the Genealogy of Morality. Twilight of the Idols. On Truth. On the Will to Power. On Eternal Recurrence
William James. the Will to Believe
Bertrand Russell. the Problems of Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations
Jean-Paul Sartre. Existentialism is a Humanism. Being and Nothingness
Simone De Beauvior. the Ethics of Ambiguity
Michel Foucault. Truth and Power
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