Central Works of Philosophy v3
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Ascetic Ideals
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Civil Society
Coercive Interference
cosmology
Diachronic Identity
dialectic
Ens Realissimum
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existential thought
Fourfold Root
German idealism
Good Life
Herd Morality
Herd Values
history of Western philosophy
Johannes Climacus
Kant's Moral Theology
Kant's Theoretical Philosophy
Kant's Transcendental Dialectic
kants
liberty
Mere Dislike
Mill's Doctrine
Moral Ascetics
moral philosophy
nineteenth-century thinkers
paradox
Part III
Perceptible Damage
Perceptible Injury
philosophical analysis
Philosophical Fragments
political theory
rational
self-regarding
Self-regarding Conduct
Self-regarding Liberty
Self-regarding Matters
Self-regarding Sphere
Socratic View
transcendental
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- ISBN 9781844650163
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 24 Aug 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance. Together these books provide an unrivaled companion for studying and reading philosophy, one that introduces the reader to the masterpieces of the western philosophical canon. Much of nineteenth-century philosophy may be viewed as either an affirmation or rejection of Kant. This volume therefore begins with Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason. Michelle Grier provides a masterly distillation of this monumental work. Curtis Bowman explores the central text of the first of the great post-Kantian idealists, Fichte who extended Kantian philosophy in a new direction. Hegel, one of Kant's most formidable critics, is given incisive treatment by Michael Inwood in his presentation of the Phenomenology of Spirit. Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation, which hoped to solve many of the problems that Kant's philosophy left unsolved is explored in Dale Jacquette's chapter. The moral philosophy of John Stuart Mill, perhaps the only philosopher in this volume to circumvent Kant's influence, is examined in Jonathan Riley's essay on his classic work On Liberty. The philosophical ideas of Kierkegaard, widely credited as the founder of modern existentialism, are explored by Stephen Evans in his essay on Philosophical Fragments. Marx's Capital, one of the most influential books of the modern age, is given expert treatment by Tom Rockmore. The volume closes with Nietzsche, whose appropriation of Kant led to a radical anti-philosophy. Rex Welshon dissects his most philosophical and widely read work, On the Genealogy of Morals.
John Shand, the editor, is an Associate Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University.
