Ten Great Works of Philosophy
by Robert Paul Wolff
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In its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Each philosopher in this volume made intellectual history; each created a revolution in ideas; each reaffirmed man's view of himself as a sentient being capable of creating order out of the baffling contradictions of existence. And the most powerful show more reflections and speculations of each are represented here. Plato: Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates, from Phado Aristotle: Poetics St. Ansem: The ontological Proof of St. Ansem, from Proslogium St. Thomas Aquinas: St. Thomas' Proofs of God's Existence, from the SummaTheologica René Descartes: Meditations on the First Philosophy David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism William James: The Will to Believe show lessTags
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Edited with a general introduction and commentaries by Robert Paul Wolff. A Mentor Book published by The New American Library, New York and Toronto; The New English Library Limited, London. First Printing, December 1969. Copyright 1969 by Robert Paul Wolff. LC Catalog Card Number 73-97475. Contents include selections from Plato, Aristotle, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas (from Summa Theologica), Descartes, Hume, Kant, and others.
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