ten-great-works-of-philosophy

In its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Each philosopher in this volume made intellectual history; each created a revolution in ideas; each reaffirmed man’s view of himself as a sentient being capable of creating order out of the baffling contradictions of existence. And the most powerful reflections and speculations of each are represented here.Plato : Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates, from PhadoAristotle : PoeticsSt. Ansem : The ontological Proof of St. Ansem, from ProslogiumSt. Thomas Aquinas : St. Thomas’ Proofs of God’s Existence, from the SummaTheologicaRené Descartes : Meditations on the First PhilosophyDavid Hume : An Inquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingImmanuel Kant : Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsJohn Stuart Mill : UtilitarianismWilliam James : The Will to Believe