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Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts Series

16 primary works • 16 total works
Designed to be used by students, this series provides a solid introduction to the key texts of western philosophy.
Descartes's Meditations: An Introduction
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2.85 · 13 Ratings · published 2003 · 12 editions
This new introduction to a philosophical classic d…

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    Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction
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    4.11     · 44 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2004 · 1 edition
    David Stern examines Wittgenstein's Philosophical …

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    Wittgenstein's Tractatus: An Introduction
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    3.96     · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2005 · 9 editions
    Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophi…

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    Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction
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    3.61     · 70 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2001 · 13 editions
    Uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views…

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    Spinoza's 'Ethics': An Introduction
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    4.25     · 159 Ratings · 25 Reviews · published 2006 · 12 editions
    Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, im…

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    Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': An Introduction
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    3.54     · 37 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2006 · 8 editions
    In this introductory textbook to Kant's Critique o…

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    Heidegger's Being and Time: An Introduction
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    3.75     · 32 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions
    In Being and Time Heidegger gives an account of th…

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    Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: An Introduction
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    2.95     · 21 Ratings · published 2008 · 10 editions
    This book introduces Hegel’s best-known and most i…

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    Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction
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    3.77     · 22 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2008 · 12 editions
    Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of M…

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    Nietzsche's 'On the Genealogy of Morality': An Introduction
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    4.05     · 19 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2008 · 13 editions
    Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is…

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    Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice': An Introduction
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    4.11     · 18 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 10 editions
    A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, is widely rega…

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    Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature': An Introduction
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2009 · 11 editions
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    Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction
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    4.18     · 17 Ratings · published 2012 · 8 editions
    The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's l…

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    Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction
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    4.14     · 7 Ratings · published 2013 · 5 editions
    If the greatness of a philosophical work can be me…

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    Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge: An Introduction
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2014 · 8 editions
    George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is…

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    Nietzsche's The Gay Science: An Introduction
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 5 editions
    Nietzsche's The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deepl…

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