The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader’s Guide

“Classics” are works which are read and re‐read and which lie unavoidably at the centre of any field. These classics have been well‐chosen by Gracia (University of New York at Buffalo and editor, with Timothy Noone, of Blackwell’s A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, 2003), Reichberg (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and associate editor of the Journal of Military Ethics), and Schumacher (University of Fribourg and author of Une Philosophie de l’Espérance, 2000). There are 61 works from the pre‐Socratics to Thomas Kuhn. Some, like Plato and Aristotle, Aquinas and Hume, Kant and Hegel and...