Philosophic Classics

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.

BEFORE SOCRATES



The Milesians.



Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes



Three Solitary Figures



Pythagoras
Xenophanes
Heraclitus



The Monists



Parmenides
Zeno of Elea



The Pluralists.



Empedocles
Anaxagoras
Democritus (and Leucippus)



Three Sophists.



Protagoras
Gorgias
Critias



Epilogue I: Two Views of Athens
Thucydides



PericlesFuneral Oration
The Melian Conference



Epilogue II: Aspasia
PLATO



Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Meno
Symposium
Republic
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Timaeus
Laws



ARISTOTLE



Categories
On Interpretation
Posterior Analytics
Physics
Metaphysics
On the Soul
Nichomachean Ethics
Politics
Poestics



HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY



Epicurus.



Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines



Lucretius.



On the Nature of Universe



The Early Stoa: Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes



Zeno of Citium
Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus



Epictetus



Handbook (Encheiridion )



Marcus Aurelius



Meditations



Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus



Outlines of Pyrrhonism



Plotinus



Enneads