TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baggini,Julian
TI  - Philosophy : key texts
SN  - 9780230296619 (hardback)
U1  - 100 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Styles of reading
Arguments f
Assessing premises
Inferences
The archaeology of arguments
Arguments within arguments
Back to style
The principle of charity
Six key texts
1 Plato: Republic (c.375 BC)
Background
The text
Preliminary discussion: What is justice?
The basis of society
Education
Rulers and auxiliaries
Society and the individual
Women, marriage and family
The philosopher rulers
The good
The education of the philosopher
Unjust societies
Art revisited
Afterlife
Conclusion
2 Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
Background
The text
First meditation
Second meditation
Tbe piece of wax
Third meditation
The existence of God
Fourth meditation
Fifth meditation
Sixth meditation
Conclusion
3 David Hume: An Enquiry concerning Human
Understanding (1748)
Background
The text
I Of the Different Species of Philosophy
II Of the Origin of Ideas
III Of the Association of Ideas
IV Sceptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the
Understanding
V Sceptical Solution of these Doubts
VI Of Probability
VII Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion
VIII Of Liberty and Necessity
IX Of the Reason of Animals
X Of Miracles
XI Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State
XII Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy
4 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (1859)
Background
The text
I  Introductory
II On the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
III Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being
IV Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the
Individual
V Applications
Conclusion
5 Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Background
The text
Preface
Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers
Part Two: The Free Spirit
Part Three: The Religious Nature
Part Four: Maxims and Interludes
Part Five: On the Natural History of Morals
Part Six: We Scholars
Part Seven: Our Virtues
Part Eight: Peoples and Fatherlands
Part Nine: What is Noble?
From High Mountains: Epode
Conclusion
6 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism (1947)
Background
The text
The attack on existentialism
Humanism
Existentialism
Subjectivity
Anguish
Abandonment
Despair
The cogito
The human condition
Does it matter what you do?
Can you judge others?
A case of give and take
Humanism again
Conclusion
Glossary
Further Reading
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