Selected Product:
| Classics of Western Philosophy
Paperback
Edition: 7
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Release Date: 2007-06-30
ISBN-10: 0872208591
ISBN-13: 9780872208599
List Price: $42.50
Average Customer Rating:
 | |
Looking Out, Looking In
ISBN-10: 049509580X
ISBN-13: 9780495095804
List Price:$108.95
Religions of the World with Sacred World CD-ROM (10th Edition)
ISBN-10: 0132240459
ISBN-13: 9780132240451
List Price:$86.40
Looking At Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter
ISBN-10: 0072828951
ISBN-13: 9780072828955
List Price:$39.37
Life's Ultimate Questions
ISBN-10: 0310223644
ISBN-13: 9780310223641
List Price:$32.99
Life's Ultimate Questions
ISBN-10: 0310223644
ISBN-13: 0025986223649
List Price:$32.99
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
ISBN-10: 0872207803
ISBN-13: 9780872207806
List Price:$24.95
|
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Classics of Western Philosophy by 0 (ISBN-10: 0872208591, ISBN-13: 9780872208599).
At this time we have not yet written a review for Classics of Western Philosophy by 0 (ISBN-10: 0872208591, ISBN-13: 9780872208599). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews.
Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com
The seventh edition of Steven Cahn's "Classics of Western Philosophy" features several major additions, including selections from Plotinus' "Enneads", Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation", Husserl's "Paris Lectures", Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", and a new selection from Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". Selections from Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and "On the Soul" have been expanded, while Aristotle's "Physics and Nicomachean Ethics", Hume's "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding", Mill's "On Liberty", and Russell's "The Problem of Philosophy" have been further abridged. In all, the new edition presents complete texts or substantial selections from fifty-six philosophical masterpieces, in pre-eminent and thoughtfully annotated translations and editions, with introductions by a team of distinguished scholars including Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Richard Bett, Steven Cahn, Charles Guignon, Kathleen Higgins, Patricia Kitcher, Philip W. Kitcher, William Mann, Derek Pereboom, Ruth Anna Putnam, Israel Scheffler, David Shatz, George Sher, David Sherman, Jonathan Vogel, Meredith Williams, and Michael Williams.
simply the best
| Customer Rating: | This anthology is by far the best anthology of its kind. If you love ancient and medieval philosophy the way I do, it is possible to teach an entire semester "intro. to phil." course out of Plato, Aristotle, Sextus, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Maimon, Ockham, Gerson, and the Stoa.
This book could also support a whole early moderns course, as it features full texts of MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, MONADOLOGY, AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, and DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION. This great text also contains a well-selected excerpt from Kant's KrV.
If you are a philosophy instructor who loves great texts, and if you teach an historical approach to intro., this text is your choice. This servicable anthology is priced reasonably enough that it can also serve as a primary-source reference for thematic courses. Thanks to Hackett for this gem. This text is also ideal as the core text for a one-trimester course. I have even used this book once for a one-semester ethics course! |
One of the best historical anthologies...
| Customer Rating:  | | Cahn's text was a requirement for a historical-introduction to philosophy class that I had. Cahn has included much relevant material from key philosophers from Plato and on. I highly recommened this book over Pojman. |
College Books
| Customer Rating: | | This book is an excellent source for the wroks of philosophers beginning with Plato and going on to all the other greats of Western Philosophy. Although I am only on the writings of Aristotle, I am enjoying the book and find that the footnotes provide some much-needed explanantions in parts. Further, the price I got this book for was much lower than what my college bookstore was asking for. |
Purchase
| Customer Rating: | | I was very pleased with the service and quality of my purchase. He was professional and efficient. |
Necessary for any philosophy student
| Customer Rating: | I must confess my review is about the third edition, but it got me through understanding many a dry philosophical lecture. The book encompasses many of the great philosophical minds of in western history - the usual Greek medley plus other greats such as Locke, Descartes, Spinoza.
Each set of highlighted works is prefaced by a small biography.
If current western philosophical college curricula is anything to go by this book brings the relevant philosophers together in one place and thus forms a vital part of any student's bookshelf. |
|
