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From ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, this collection traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Perfect for anyone interested in understanding the progression of Western thought, this volume includes:

Plato : Apology, Crito, and Death of Socrates from Phaedo

Aristotle : Poetics

St. Anselm : The Ontological Proof of St. Anselm, from Proslogium

St. Thomas Aquinas : St. Thomas' Proofs of God's Existence, from The Summa Theologica

René Descartes : Meditations on the First Philosophy

David Hume : An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Immanuel Kant : Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

John Stuart Mill : Utilitarianism

William James : The Will to Believe