Classics of Philosophy

Volume II: Modern and Contemporary
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-511646-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 816 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1489 g

Classics of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern and Contemporary covers the works of philosophers from Descartes to Rawls. Ideal for courses in modern and contemporary philosophy, it includes forty-eight extensive selections--seventeen of them complete--from twenty-nine philosophers. This collection offers an unrivaled introduction to the major works of these periods. A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers.

Also look for Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval, which covers the works of philosophers from Thales to William of Ockham. In addition, there is a single-volume edition available that combines Volume I and Volume II, providing the most comprehensive anthology of writings in western philosophy in print.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pojman, Louis P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Part III: The Modern Period

- 15: Rene Descartes

- 16: Thomas Hobbes

- 17: Blaise Pascal

- 18: Baruch Spinoza

- 19: Gottfried WIlhelm Leinbniz

- 20: John Locke

- 21: George Berkeley

- 22: William Paley

- 23: David Hume

- 24: Immanuel Kant

- 25: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

- 26: Arthur Schopenhauer

- 27: Soren Kierkegaard

- 28: John Stuart Mill

- 29: Karl Marx

- 30: Friedrich Nietzsche

- Part IV: The Contemporary Period

- 31: W. K. Clifford

- 32: Charles S. Pierce

- 33: William James

- 34: Bertrand Russell

- 35: G. E. Moore

- 36: Ludwig Wittgenstein

- 37: Edmund Husserl

- 38: Martin Heidegger

- 39: Jean Paul Sartre

- 40: A. J. Ayer

- 41: W. V. O. Quine

- 42: Nelson Goodman

- 43: John Rawls

Über Autor(innen)

Louis P. Pojman is Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is the author or editor of over twenty books and numerous articles.