Part One: Social and Political Philosophy
Introduction by Paul Rahe
Selections from
Plato, Symposium
Plato, Gorgias
Plato, Republic
Aristotle, Politics
Machiavelli, The Prince
Hobbes, Leviathan
Rousseau, First and Second Discourses
Part Two: Philosophy of Religion
Introduction by William Desmond
Selections from
Augustine, Confessions
Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
Pascal, Pensees
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
Part Three: Philosophy of Art and Culture
Introduction by Robert Pippin
Selections from
Plato, Republic
Aristotle, Poetics
Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
Dewey, Art as Experience
Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
Part Four: Metaphysics
Introduction by Richard Velkley
Selections from
Aristotle, Metaphysics
Descartes, Meditations
Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Leibniz, Reflections on the Common Concept of Justice
Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books
Part Five: Epistemology
Introduction by Jaakko Hintikka
Selections from
Plato, Meno
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
Descartes, Meditations
Hume, Abstract on a Treatise of Human Nature
Part Six: Philosophy of Science
Introduction by Gian-Carlo Rota & Jeffrey Thomas Crants
Selections from
Feyerabend, Against Method
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences
Ayala, 'The Concept of Biological Progress'
Poincare, Science and the Scientist
Poincare, Science and Hypothesis
Simpson, Logic and Mathematics
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