Philosophy: The Classic Readings

Philosophy: The Classic Readings provides a comprehensive, single-volume collection of the greatest works of philosophy from ancient to modern times.

• Draws on both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions
• Arranged chronologically within parts on Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, and Political Philosophy
• Features original readings from more than a hundred of the world's great philosophers - from Lao Tzu, Confucius, the Buddha, Plato, Śamkara, Aquinas, al-Ghazāli, Kant, and Kierkegaard, to Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Arendt, and Quine and many others
• Provides an extensive Timeline of Philosophy for situating historical figures and lines of thought

David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at Durham University. His many books include World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (1996, 2002); Existentialism: A Reconstruction (1990, 1999); and The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility and Mystery (2002)