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Philosophy: History and Readings, 9th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-0078119095
ISBN-10: 007811909X

Author: Stumpf (Author)

This text brings together Stumpf and Fieser’s Socrates to Sartre and Beyond with an updated anthology of readings in one volume. It offers an accessible historical survey of philosophical ideas and a wealth of primary source readings at an excellent value. The text is a comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy which communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. With a lively and approachable style it covers the principal contributions of Western civilization’s most influential philosophers. The chronologically organized reader features a wide selection of readings of both Western philosophy and Eastern philosophy.

Preface
The history of philosophy is in many ways like an epic novel. There are revered ancestors who, through great suffering, establish traditions for the betterment of their descendants. There are black sheep of the family who stir up trouble, embarrass their brothers and sisters, and sometimes even invite the wrath of political and religious authorities. There are bitter feuds between families that last generations, often with no clear victor ever emerging. As the saga passes from one era to another, there is some feeling of progress. Old-fashioned ways are discarded and replaced with new—although sometimes faddish—ones.
Thus, the history of philosophy is an “adventure of ideas,” to use the words of one great philosopher. This book attempts to describe a major thread of that drama.
This book was originally published in 1966 by Samuel Enoch Stumpf, and was quickly embraced as an authoritative, yet reader-friendly survey of the history of philosophy in the Western tradition. The work starts with the first philosophers of ancient Greece, proceeds through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and modern periods, and culminates with the most important contemporary contributions. New editions of this book have appeared over the years in response to the ever-changing needs of college instructors and students.
Chapters were rearranged, sections added, scholarship updated, and each sentence meticulously picked over to make the writing style accessible to newer generations of readers. This newly revised edition attempts to reflect the spirit of change that directed previous editions, and the major changes include these:
• New chapter-opening outlines
• New summaries at the end of each chapter
• 200 new study questions added
• New reading selection from Machiavelli’s The Prince
• New reading selection from Spinoza’s Ethics
• New reading selection from Leibniz’s Monadology
• New reading selection from Dewey’s Reconstruction in Philosophy
Other minor changes and improvements have been made throughout.
Regrettably, as new material is added to each new edition of the anthology, an equal amount of material must be removed. Those selections deleted were the least used in the anthology, as indicated by a survey of a sample of current book users.
I thank Sara Jaeger and the rest of the gifted editorial staff at McGraw-Hill for their expertise and good nature throughout the production of this new edition.
I also thank the many reviewers of this book for their helpful suggestions for improvements.
James Fiese