Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138719102 ISBN 13: 9781138719101

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy. In updating this Seventh Edition, editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late-Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established: (1) to use complete works or, where more appropriate, complete sections of works (2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to each thinker’s philosophy or widely accepted as part of the "canon." To make the works more accessible to students, most footnotes treating textual matters (variant readings, etc.) have been omitted and important words from antiquity have been transliterated and put in angle brackets. In addition, each thinker is introduced by a brief essay composed of three sections: (1) biographical (a glimpse of the life), (2) philosophical (a résumé of the philosopher’s thought), and (3) bibliographical (suggestions for further reading).

A timeline places important philosophers alongside other important thinkers, world leaders, and major global events. Photos and paintings with explanatory captions illuminate the ideas, debates, and places discussed in the text.

New to the Seventh Edition:

• New translations: Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo; Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics; Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines; Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy; Anselm, Proslogion; Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man; René Descartes, Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth; Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract; Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics and Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Additional material: Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus (in part); Francis Bacon, Aphorisms (selections from Novum Organum); Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach; A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic (in part)
• Updated, annotated bibliographies with each bibliography now broken into two sections, one for beginning and another for advanced students.

About this title

About the Author

Forrest E. Baird was Professor of Philosophy at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA from 1978 until he retired in 2021. He taught a wide range of courses focusing on the history of Western intellectual thought as well as logic and philosophy of religion. Baird has a B.A. from Westmont College, an M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. His most recent publication is How Do We Reason: An Introduction to Logic (IVP, 2021). His other works include Human Thought and Action: Readings in Western Intellectual History (UPA, 1992) and Introduction to Philosophy: A Case Study Approach (Harper & Row, 1981, co-authored with Jack Rogers).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138719102
• ISBN 13: 9781138719101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 929
• Editor: Baird Forrest