The Philosopher`s Handbook Essential Readings from Plato to Kant

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Social and political Philosophy Plato . Symposium ..........27 Plato . Gorgias ......39 Plato. Republic.........45 Aristotle . Politics .....73 Niccolo Machiavelli . The Prince ........77 Thomas Hobbes . Leviathan .......81 Jean-Jacques Rosseau. The first and Second discourses ......91 2. Philosophy of Religion Augustine. confessions......125 Maimonides . Guide for the Perplexed .........135 Blaise Pascal . Pensees ........147 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion .........165 Soren Kierkegaard . Fear and Trembling ..........171 3. Philosophy of Art and Culture Plato. Republic......201 Aristotle. Poetics ...........217 Friedrich Schiller. On the Aesthetic Education of man in a Series of Letters .......233 Friedrich nietzsche. the birth of Tragedy ..........245 John Dewey . Art as Experience ......267 Theodor adorno. Aesthetic Theory .....289 4. Metaphysics Aristotle. Metaphysics .......329 Rene Descartes. Meditations.....343 George wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Lectures on the history of Philosopy..........349 Immanuel Kant . prolegomena to any further Metaphysics ..........385 Ludwig wittgenstein . The blue and brown books ........393 5. Epistemology Plato. Meno..........415 Aristolte . Posterior Analysis .........425 Rene Descartes. Meditations ..........429 David Hume . Abstract on a Treatise of Human Nature ................439 6. Philosophy of Science Paul Feyerabend. Against Method ......493 Thomas Kuhn. The structure of Scientific Revolution .....503 Edmund Husserl. the Crisis of European Science .........521 The concept of Biological Progress ..........535 Logic and Mathematics .........577