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Discourses Fall 2012 Discourses Fall 2012 discourses A PHILOSOPHY READINGS DATABASE Edited by Donald C. Abel Table of Contents by Historical Period Each historical period (except Twenty‐First Century Philosophy) lists two sets of readings: Topical Readings and Classic Works: Complete Texts. Each Topical Reading ○ is a self‐contained unit ○ has a headnote that gives a biographical sketch of the author and an overview of the reading ○ has explanatory endnotes ○ retains all the original headings and subheadings ○ is available with or without Study Quesons Each Classic Work: Complete Text ○ has an oponal Introducon to the Work ○ is divided into secons, available separately, if the work is lengthy (for example, each of the ten books of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and each of Descartes’ six Meditaons on First Philosophy) All the readings can be used in a custom printed book, and nearly all of them can also be used in a custom eBook. All eBook readings are viewable online. ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY Topical Readings Aristotle, Categories (selecon) eBook Opon Aristotle, Metaphysics (selecon) eBook Opon Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (selecon) eBook Opon Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (selecon 2) eBook Opon Aristotle, On the Soul (selecon) eBook Opon Aristotle, Poecs (selecon) eBook Opon Aristotle, Polics (selecon) eBook Opon Aristotle, Posterior Analycs (selecon) eBook Opon Aristotle, Prior Analycs (selecon) eBook Opon Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Laws (selecon) eBook Opon Epictetus, The Handbook (selecon) eBook Opon Epicurus, Leer to Herodotus (selecon) eBook Opon Epicurus, Leer to Menoeceus (complete) eBook Opon Lucreus, On the Nature of Things (selecon) eBook Opon www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/discourses 1 Discourses Fall 2012 Marcus Aurelius, Meditaons (selecon) eBook Opon Plato, Apology (complete) eBook Opon Plato, Crito (complete) eBook Opon Plato, Euthyphro (complete) eBook Opon Plato, Meno (selecon) eBook Opon Plato, Phaedo (selecon) eBook Opon Plato, The Republic (selecon 1) eBook Opon Plato, The Republic (selecon 2) eBook Opon Plato, The Republic (selecon 3) eBook Opon Plonus, Enneads (selecon) eBook Opon NEW Plutarch, Parallel Lives (selecon) eBook Opon Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Happy Life (selecon) eBook Opon Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (selecon) eBook Opon Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (selecon) eBook Opon Classic Works: Compete Texts Aristotle, Categories eBook Opon Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics eBook Opon Aristotle, On the Soul eBook Opon Epictetus, The Handbook eBook Opon Epicurus, Leer to Herodotus eBook Opon Epicurus, Leer to Menoeceus eBook Opon Plato, Apology eBook Opon Plato, Crito eBook Opon Plato, Euthyphro eBook Opon Plato, Gorgias eBook Opon Plato, Meno eBook Opon Plato, Phaedo eBook Opon Plato, Phaedrus eBook Opon Plato, The Republic eBook Opon Plato, Symposium eBook Opon ANCIENT NON‐WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Topical Readings Buddhist Scriptures, The Dhammapada (selecon) eBook Opon Buddhist Scriptures, The Middle‐Length Discourses of the Buddha (selecon) eBook Opon NEW Buddhist Scriptures, The Perfecon of Wisdom (selecon) eBook Opon Buddhist Scriptures: The Quesons of King Milinda (selecon) eBook Opon Confucius, The Analects (selecon) eBook Opon Hindu Scriptures, The Bhagavad Gita (selecon) eBook Opon Hindu Scriptures, The Upanishads (selecon) eBook Opon www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/discourses 2 Discourses Fall 2012 Hsün Tzu, The Book of Hsün Tzu (selecon) eBook Opon Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (selecon) eBook Opon Mencius, The Book of Mencius (selecon) eBook Opon Mo Tzu, The Book of Mo Tzu (selecon) eBook Opon Nagarjuna, The Tree of Wisdom (selecon) eBook Opon Sun Tzu, The Art of War (selecon) eBook Opon Classic Works: Compete Texts Confucius, The Analects eBook Opon Buddhist Scriptures, The Dhammapada eBook Opon Hindu Scriptures, The Bhagavad Gita eBook Opon Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching eBook Opon MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Topical Readings Anselm, Monologion (selecon) eBook Opon Anselm, Proslogion and Exchange with Gaunilo (selecon) eBook Opon Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selecon 1) eBook Opon Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selecon 2) eBook Opon Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selecon 3) eBook Opon Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selecon 4) eBook Opon Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selecon 5) eBook Opon Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selecon 6) eBook Opon Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship (selecon) Augusne, The City of God (selecon) eBook Opon Augusne, The Free Choice of the Will (selecon) Augusne, On Lying (selecon) eBook Opon Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, The Consolaon of Philosophy (selecon) eBook Opon Classic Works: Compete Texts Anselm, Proslogion and Exchange with Gaunilo eBook Opon CLASSICAL MODERN PHILOSOPHY Topical Readings George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (selecon) eBook Opon George Berkeley, A Trease Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (selecon) eBook Opon Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauful (selecon) eBook Opon Joseph Butler, Fieen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel (selecon) eBook Opon NEW Samuel Clarke, A Demonstraon of the Being and Aributes of God (selecon) eBook Opon www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/discourses 3 Discourses Fall 2012 René Descartes, Discourse on Method (selecon) eBook Opon René Descartes, Meditaons on First Philosophy (selecon 1) eBook Opon René Descartes, Meditaons on First Philosophy (selecon 2) eBook Opon Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will (selecon) eBook Opon Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selecon) eBook Opon Paul‐Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach, Common Sense (selecon) eBook Opon Paul‐Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach, The System of Nature (selecon) eBook Opon David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (selecon) eBook Opon NEW David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (selecon 2) eBook Opon David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selecon 1) eBook Opon David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selecon 2) eBook Opon David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (selecon) eBook Opon David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste (selecon) eBook Opon David Hume, A Trease of Human Nature (selecon) eBook Opon Thomas Jefferson, Leers to John Adams & Samuel Kercheval (selecon) eBook Opon Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Declaraon of Independence and Constuon of the USA (complete) eBook Opon NEW Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Poet’s Answer to the Most Illustrious Sor Filotea de la Cruz (selecon) eBook Opon Immanuel Kant, Concerning a Pretended Right to Lie (selecon) eBook Opon Immanuel Kant, Crique of Judgment (selecon) eBook Opon Immanuel Kant, Crique of Pure Reason (selecon ) eBook Opon Immanuel Kant, Crique of Pure Reason (selecon 2) eBook Opon Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of Metaphysics of Morals (selecon) eBook Opon Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals (selecon) eBook Opon Goried Wilhelm Leibniz, The Monadology (complete) eBook Opon Goried Wilhelm Leibniz, Theodicy (selecon) eBook Opon John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selecon 1) eBook Opon John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selecon 2) eBook Opon NEW John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selecon 3) eBook Opon John Locke, A Leer Concerning Toleraon (selecon) eBook Opon John Locke, The Second Trease of Government (selecon) eBook Opon Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (selecon) eBook Opon James Madison, The Federalist (selecon) eBook Opon Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, An Apology for Raymond Sebond (selecon) eBook Opon Charles‐Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (selecon) eBook Opon NEW Thomas More, Utopia (selecon) eBook Opon William Paley, Natural Theology (selecon) eBook Opon Blaise Pascal, Pensées (selecon) eBook Opon Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated (selecon) eBook Opon Thomas Reid, Essays on the Acve Powers of the Human Mind (selecon) eBook Opon www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/discourses 4 Discourses Fall 2012 Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (selecon) eBook Opon NEW Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (selecon) eBook Opon Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (selecon) Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Naons (selecon) eBook Opon Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Senments (selecon) eBook Opon Baruch Spinoza, Trease on the Emendaon of the Intellect (selecon) eBook Opon Mary Wollstonecra, A Vindicaon of the Rights of Woman (selecon) eBook Opon Classic Works: Compete Texts George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous eBook Opon George Berkeley, A Trease Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge eBook Opon René Descartes, Discourse on Method eBook Opon René Descartes, Meditaons on First Philosophy eBook Opon David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion eBook Opon David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding eBook Opon Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals eBook Opon Goried Wilhelm Leibniz, The Monadology eBook Opon John Locke, The Second Trease of Government eBook Opon NEW Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts eBook Opon Baruch Spinoza, On the Emendaon of the Intellect eBook Opon NINETEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY Topical Readings Jeremy Bentham, An Introducon to the Principles of Morals (selecon) eBook Opon W. 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