Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780631236115
Year: 2002
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 634


Description:
The Classics of Western Philosophy brings together 61
newly-commissioned essays on classic texts ranging from Ancient
Greece to the twentieth century. Surveying the history of
philosophy, the book focuses on historical texts rather than
historical figures and covers the entire range of classics in a
single volume.




Provides 61 chapters written by leading experts on the classics
of Western thought.


Includes current references to the scholarly literature in
addition to a select bibliography of major articles and
books.


Contributors include C.D.C. Reeve on Plato's Republic,
Terrence Irwin on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Dominic
O'Meara on Plotinus' Enneads, James Ross on Aquinas'
Summa Theologiae, Don Garrett on Spinoza's Ethics,
Allen Wood on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Stephen
Houlgate on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Michael Dummett
on Frege's ?Über Sinn und Bedeutung,' Hanjo Glock on
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and David
Woodruff Smith on Husserl's Logical Investigations.


Surveys the history of philosophy by focussing on the
historical texts rather than historical figures.


Covers the entire range of classics in a single volume.