Classics of Western Philosophy

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The Eighth Edition of Steven M. Cahns Classics of Western Philosophy offers the same exacting standard of editing and translation that made earlier editions of this anthology the most highly valued and widely used volume of its kind. But the Eighth Edition offers exciting new content as well: Platos Laches (complete) new selections from Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics (on courage) Descartes Discourse on Method (complete) all previously omitted sections of Berkeleys A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge Kants Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (complete). These additionswith no offsetting deletion of content of the Seventh Editionyield an anthology of unrivaled versatility the only one to offer the complete texts of: both Descartes Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy both Berkeleys A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous Kants Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics and selections from the Critique of Pure Reason.