The Originals: Classic Readings in Western PhilosophyEDIT:
Table of Contents
Introduction for Instructors
Dedication
Acknowledgements
How to Do Philosophy
The Value of Philosophy
Plato - On Defending Philosophy
Bertrand Russell – On the Value of Philosophy
Epistemology
Rene Descartes – On Doubt and Certainty
John Locke – On the Foundation of Knowledge
George Berkeley – On Materialism and Idealism
David Hume – On Empiricism
Immanuel Kant – On the Sources of Knowledge
William James - On Pragmatism
Bertrand Russell – On Truth and Falsehood
Metaphysics
Plato – On the Allegory of the Cave
Plato – On Forms
Aristotle – On Categories
Aristotle - On Language and the Way Truth Works
Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz – On Substances
David Hume – On Liberty and Necessity
Philosophy of Religion
St. Anselm – On the Ontological Proof of God's Existence
St. Thomas Aquinas – On the Five Ways to Prove God's Existence
Blaise Pascal – On the Wager for God's Existence
David Hume– On the Irrationality of Believing in Miracles
Søren Kierkegaard – On Encountering Faith
William James – On the Will to Believe
William Paley – On The Teleological Argument
Ethics and Morality
Plato – On Justice
Aristotle - On Virtue
David Hume – On the Foundations of Morals
Immanuel Kant – On Moral Principles
Jeremy Bentham - On the Principle of Utility
John Stuart Mill – On Utilitarianism
Socio-Political Philosophy
Bertrand Russell – On Anti-Suffragist Arguments
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels – On Communism
Mary Wollstonecraft – On the Rights of Women
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - On Inequality
John Locke – On Property and the Formation of Societies
Thomas Hobbes – On The Social Contract
John Stuart Mill – On The Equality of Women
Art and Aesthetics
David Hume – On Opinion and Taste
Immanuel Kant – On the Aesthetic Taste
Aristotle – On Tragedy
Plato – On the Value of Art and Imitation
Edmund Burke – On the Sublime
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