Classics of Western Philosophy

ISBN: 0872206378

Author: Steven M. Cahn

Condition: Used

The sixth edition of Steven Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy includes eleven major new additions, including Plato's Symposium and selections from Aristotle's On Interpretation, Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will, and J. L. Austin's Sense and Sensibilia, as well as works of Sextus Empiricus, Boethius, Maimonides, Gersonides, Ockham, and William James. Selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, Hume's Treatise, and Russell's Problems of Philosophy have been expanded, while Plato's Republic, Hobbes' Leviathan, and Mill's On Liberty have been further abridged. In all, complete texts or substantial selections from fifty-two philosophical masterpieces are presented-in preeminent and thoughtfully annotated translations and editions, with Introductions by a team of distinguished scholars.