Philosophic Classics, Volume I Ancient Philosophy
ISBN: 9780205783854 | 0205783856
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 1/3/2010
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Esteemed for providing the best available translations, the Philosophic Classics series features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers. Forrest E. Baird's revisions ofPhilosophic Classics,Prentice Hall's long-standing philosophy series, continue the tradition begun in 1961, to provide generations of students with anthologies of high quality in the history of Western philosophy. Using the complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections o... MORE
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BEFORE SOCRATES
The Milesians.
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Three Solitary... MORE
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
Pericles Funeral Oration
The Melian Conference
Epilogue II: Aspasia
PLATO
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Meno
Symposium (189c-193d; 201d-end (223d))
Republic (Book I, 336b-349b; 350d-354b; Book II, 357a-362c; 367e-376e; Book III, 386b-d; 387b-388e; 412b-417b; Book IV, 427d-445e; Book V, complete: 449-480a; Book VI-VII, 502c-521b Book VIII 562a-563-e)
Parmenides (127-135)
Theaetetus (selections) PLEASE NOTE THIS SECTION MAY BE CUT DUE TO PAGE COUNT, PLEASE CHECK AFTER BOOK HAS PUBLISHED AND CORRECT ACCORDINGLY
Timaeus (27d-34b)
Laws (selections)
ARISTOTLE
Categories (Chapters 1-5)
On Interpretation (Chapters 1-9)
Posterior Analytics (Book I, 1-2; Book II, 19)
Physics (Book II complete)
Metaphysics (Books I and XII complete)
On the Soul (Book II, 1-3; Book III, 4-5)
Nichomachean Ethics (Book I-II; Book III, 1-5; Book IV, 3; Books VI-VII; Book X,6-8, 9)
Politics (Book I, 1-2; Book III, 6-9; Book IV, 11-12; Book VII, 3b-4, 9)
Poestics (Chapter 6)
HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY
Epicurus.
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines
Lucretius.
On the Nature of Universe (Book II, 216-284; Book III, tselections through 831)
The Early Stoa: Zeno of Citium and Cleanthes
Zeno of Citium (selections from Diogenes Laertius)
Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus
Epictetus
Handbook (Encheiridion )
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations (Book IV)
Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1-15) THIS MAY CHANGE TO 1-13 DEPENDING ON PAGE COUNT PLEASE CHECK UPON PUBLICATION
Plotinus
Enneads (I, Tractate 6; V, Tractate 1, 1-12; V, Tractate 3, 12,9-end)-THE BOLDED SECTION MAY BE DELETED DEPENDING ON FINAL PAGE COUNT
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. In his time at Whitworth, Dr. Baird has been selected by five graduating classes as the "Most Influential Professor" and has also been voted "Teacher of the Year" by his colleagues. Dr. Baird has studied the problem of evil while a Resident Fellow at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John's University and Abbey in Collegeville, MN, and more recently has been studying Chinese philosophy. Dr. Baird's most recent scholarly work has been editing the six-volume Philosophic Classics series for Prentice Hall. His other works include editing the book, Human Thought and Action: Readings in Western Intellectual History, and co-authoring (with Jack Rogers) the HarperCollins textbook, Introduction to Philosophy: A Case Study Approach.
