Philosophic Classics, Volume II : Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
ISBN: 9780205783908 | 0205783902
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 6/1/2010
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Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers. First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision ofPhilosophic Classics,Pearson Education's long-standing anthology (available in split volumes), continues the tradition of providing generations of students with high quality course material. Using the complete works, or where appropriate, complet... MORE
Prologue I: Early Christianity
Justin Martyr
Dialogue with Trypho (in part)
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Clement of Alexandria
Stromateis
Tertullian
A Treatise on the Soul (in part)
Prescriptions Against the Heretics (in part)
Origen
On First Principles (in part)
Prologue II: Other Foundational Documents
Philo of Alexandria
On the Account of the World's Creation Given by Moses ( II-VI, XLIV-XLVI)
Plotinus
Enneads (Ennead I, Tractate VI)
Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite
The Divine Names (Chapter 4, sections 18-21, 30; Chapter 7, 3)
Augustine
On the Free Choice of the Will (Book II)
Confessions (Book VIII, 5, 8-12; Book XI, 14-28)
City of God (Book VIII, Chapters 1-12; Book XI, Chapter 26; Book XII, Chapters 1-9; Book XIX, Chapters 11-17)
Early Medieval Philosophy
Boethius
The Second Editon of the Commentaries on the Isagoge of Porphyry (Book I Chapters 10-11)
The Consolation of Philosophy (Book V)
John Scotus Eriugena
On the Division of Nature (Periphyseon) (Book I, Chapters 1-7, 11-12, 13-14)
Anslem (And Gaunilo)
Proslogion (Preface, Chapters 1-4)
Gaunilo and Anslem: Debate
Peter Abelard
On Universals
Ethics (Prologue, Chapters 1-3, 10-12)
Hildegard of Bingen
Scivias (Book I, Vision 4, Chapters 16-26)
John of Salisbury
Metalogicon (Book II, Chapter 17)
Statesman (Policratus) (Chapters 1-3)
Islamic and Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Avicenna
Essay on the Secret of Destiny
Concerning the SOul (Chapters 1-2, 4, 6, 12-13)
Al-Ghazali
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Introduction, and Preface One)
Averroes
The Decisive Treatise
Moses Maimonides
The Guide for the Perplexed ( Part I, Chapters 51-52, 58; Part II Introduction, Chapters 13,17; Part III, Chapter 12)
Thirteenth Century Philosophy
Robert Grosseteste
On Light
Roger Bacon
The Opus Majus (Part IV, 1,3; Part VI, 1-2)
Bonaventure
The Mind's Road to God (Prologue, Chapters 1-3)
On the Eternity of the World (selections)
Siger of Brabant
Question on the Eternity of the World
The Condemnations of 1270 (complete) and 1277 (in part)
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica (selections)
The Principles of Nature
Late Medieval Philosophy
John Duns Scotus
A Treatise on God as First Principle (Chapter 3)
Reportata Parisiensia (in part)
Prologue to the Ordinatio
William of Ockham
On Universals(Summa Logicae, Part I, Chapters 14-16; Part II, Chapter 2)
On Being (Summa Logicae, Part I, Chapter 38)
On Knowledge (Quodlibetal Questions, First Quodlibet, Question 13)
On God (selections)
On Politics (eight Questions on the Power of the Pope, Questions 2, Chapters 1,7)
Meister Eckhart
Sermon #1
Catherine of Siena
Letter # 58
Renaissance Philosophy
Nicholas Cusanas
On Learned Ignorance (Chapter 1-4, 26)
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Oration on the Dignity of Man (in part)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince (Chapters 15-18, 25)
Thomas More
Utopia (in part)
Michel De Montiagne
Apology for Raymond Sebond (Chapter 3)
Luis De Molina
On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of the Concordia (in part)
Giordano Bruno
Of the Infinite, the Universe, and the Worlds (in part)
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.
