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Synopsis
A book of readings in Western intellectual history focusing on the role of reason in human action. Contents:à Plato: "Myth of the Cave; Plato: àIThe Four Virtues"; Aristotle: "Knowledge of Causes"; Aristotle: "The Types of Governments"; Epicurus: "Epicureanism"; Epictetus: "Stoicism"; St. Augustine: "The Platonist"; St. Augustine: "The Nature of Sources of Evil"; St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Four Laws"; St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Nature of the Soul"; Pico: "The Oration on the Dignity of Man"; John Calvin: "Reason, Sin and Illumination"; St. Teresa of Avila: "Interior Castle"; Rene Descartes: "Pensés" ; Thomas Hobbes: "The State of Nature"; John Locke: "The State of Nature"; Alexander Pope: "Essay on Man"; David Hume: "Impressions and Ideas"; Voltaire: "Candide"; Immanuel Kant: "Space and Time"; Immanuel Kant: "The Good Will"; Edmund Burke: "Revolution in France"; James Madison: "The Federal Government"; Soren Kierkegaard: "Subjective Truth"; Fyodor Dostoevsky: "The Grand Inquisitor"; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: "Communist Manifesto"; Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Will to Power"; William James: "Pragmatism"; William James: "Philosophical Temperaments"; Sigmund Freud: "The Ego and the Id"; Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Later Theory"; Jean-Paul Sartre: "Existentialism"; Carol Gilligan: "Women's Place in Man's World"; Appendix: "Programmed Text on Epistemology".
Author Biography: Forrest E. Baird is Professor of Philosophy at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington.