A book of readings in Western intellectual history focusing on the role of reason in human action. Contents: ^ Plato: Myth of the Cave ; Plato: ^IThe 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 ...
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A book of readings in Western intellectual history focusing on the role of reason in human action. Contents: ^ Plato: Myth of the Cave ; Plato: ^IThe 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: Pens???s ; 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 .
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