Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida

Forrest Baird has taught at Whitworth since 1978. In addition to teaching a variety of courses in philosophy, most summers he teaches for Fuller Theological Seminary in extension programs throughout the West. Dr. Baird has a B.A. from Westmont, an M.Div. From Fuller, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Baird's most recent scholarly work has been editing the six-volume Philosophic Classics series. His other works include editing the book, Human Thought and Action: Readings in Western Intellectual History, and co-authoring (with Jack Rogers) Introduction to Philosophy: A Case Study Approach.

PREFACE

ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY

SOCRATES AND PLATO
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Republic

ARISTOTLE
Physics
Metaphysics
On the Soul
Nicomachean Ethics

HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY

EPICURUS
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines

EPICTETUS
Handbook (Enchiridion)

PYRRHO AND SEXTUS EMPIRICUS
Outlines of Pyrrhonism

PLOTINUS
Enneads

CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

AUGUSTINE 272
Confessions
City of God

BOETHIUS
The Consolation of Philosophy

ANSELM (AND GUANILO)
Proslogion
Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate (selections)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
Scivias

MOSES MAIMONIDES
The Guide for the Perplexed

THOMAS AQUINAS
Summa Theologica (selections)

WILLIAM OF OCKHAM
Summa Logicae

GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA
Oration on the Dignity of Man (in part)

MODERN PHILOSOPHY

RENÉ DESCARTES
Meditations on the First Philosophy
Correspondence with Princess Elizabeth (selections)

THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan

BLAISE PASCAL
Pensées (selections)

BARUCH SPINOZA
Ethics

JOHN LOCKE
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (abridged)

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ
Discourse on Metaphysics
The Monadology

GEORGE BERKELEY
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

DAVID HUME
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
The Social Contract (Book I)

IMMANUEL KANT
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
On a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic Motives

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

G.W.F. HEGEL
Phenomenology of Spirit

Lectures on the History of Philosophy

JOHN STUART MILL
Utilitarianism

SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Fear and Trembling
Concluding Unscientific Postscript

KARL MARX
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Manifesto of the Communist Party
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Notes on Bakunin’s Statehood and Anarchy

CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE
The Fixation of Belief

WILLIAM JAMES
Pragmatism (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Birth of Tragedy
The Gay Science
Twilight of the Idols
The Anti-Christ

TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

EDMUND HUSSERL
Phenomenology

W.E.B. DU BOIS
The Souls of Black Folks

BERTRAND RUSSELL
The Problems of Philosophy

MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Introduction to Metaphysics

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophical Investigations

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Existentialism Is a Humanism

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Second Sex (Introduction)

WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE
Two Dogmas of Empiricism

JACQUES DERRIDA
Of Grammatology ("The Written Being/The Being Written")