Philosophy: The Classics (平装) 0415356296

Philosophy: The Classics, Third Edition is a brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy. It 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.

In his exemplary clear style, Warburton introduces and assesses twenty-seven philosophical classics from Plato's Republic to Rawl's A Theory of Justice. The new text design and revised further reading make this the ideal starting point for anyone interested in philosophy.This new edition also includes three new chapters on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Russell's The Problems of Philosophy and Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism.

Offering twenty-five guidebooks for the price of one, not only is this great value, it's the most comprehensive introduction to philosophers and their texts currently available.

'The challenge is to convey to the modern reader the perennial freshness of ideas which might otherwise be clouded by historical scholarship. Nigel Warburton rises to the challenge with admirable skill.'– The Times 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.

1. Plato: The Republic 2. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics 3. Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy 4. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince 5. René Descartes: Meditations 6. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan 7. Baruch de Spinoza: Ethics 8. John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 9. John Locke: Second Treatise of Government 10. David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 11. David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract 13. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason 14. Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals 15. Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Idea 16. John Stuart Mill: On Liberty 17. John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism 18. S?ren Kierkegaard Either/Or 19. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The German Ideology, Part1. 20. Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil 21. Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality 22. Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy 23. A.J. Ayer: Language, Truth and Logic 24. Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness 25. Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism 26. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations 27. John Rawls: A Theory of Justice

出版社	Routledge
作者	奈杰尔?沃伯顿 (Nigel Warburton)