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.

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Nigel Warburton is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. He is author of Philosophy: the Basics (4th edition), Thinking from A to Z (2nd edition), Freedom: An Introduction with Readings, The Art Question, Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide, The Basics of Essay Writing and Erno Goldfinger: the Life of an Architect. He is also editor of Philosophy: Basic Readings (2nd edition) and co-author of Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill. All of these titles are available from Routledge.

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