Philosophic Classics, Volume II: Medieval Philosophy

by Walter Kaufmann, Forrest Baird (Editor)

For courses in 20th-century Philosophy, recent Continental Philosophy, Anglo-American Philosophy; as part of courses in Contemporary Philosophy; or courses on Epistemology or Metaphysics that take a historical approach. This anthology in 20th-century philosophical classics includes recent European and American philosophers, and contains texts that are presently seen as classics or as emerging classics. It features complete works or complete sections of works. Includes introductions to each philosopher, an abundance of drawings, diagrams, photographs, and a timeline.

Genres: Philosophy, History, Nonfiction, Religion, Classics

528 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served for over 30 years as a Professor at Princeton University.

He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Nietzsche. He also wrote a 1965 book on Hegel, and a translation of most of Goethe's Faust.

Reviews

[Bruce · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the case of these excerpts from the great philosophers, when I say I've read them, I mean I've scratched the surface of their thought. I plan on going back to these texts again and again. This has been a great introduction to these thinkers, and from my perspective at the moment, the most interesting aspect of my journey was witnessing the progression from the hard-headed common sense of Francis Bacon to the -- one could say -- hard-headed mysticism of Immanuel Kant, who concludes that we can have no real knowledge of reality.

[Lauren Wild · Rating 1 out of 5]

Turns out medieval philosophy is not my thing