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
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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