Nigel Warburton
Philosophy: The Classics
- ISBN 13:
- 9780415534666
- author:
- Nigel Warburton
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Routledge
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 1.9 x 13.3 x 19.7 cm
- Genre:
- Society, Politics & Philosophy, Philosophy,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
This comprehensive introduction to western philosophy covers twenty-seven key texts from Plato's Republic to Rawls' A Theory of Justice. Nigel Warburton provides an accessible guide to the works of influential thinkers, including Aristotle, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Mill, Kierkegaard, Marx and Engels, Nietzsche, Russell, Ayer, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Rawls.
With a clear and engaging style, Warburton explores the key ideas and debates in each text, making this book an ideal resource for students and anyone looking to understand the foundations of western philosophy. The fourth edition includes new design and revised further reading, as well as three additional chapters on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Russell's The Problems of Philosophy, and Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism.