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Tables of Contents for Philosophic Classics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
PROLOGUE I: EARLY CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS
1
42
Jesus
5
11
New Testament: Gospels (in part)
7
9
Paul and the Early Church
16
14
New Testament: Acts, Pauline Letters, and Revelation (in part)
18
12
The Church Fathers
30
13
Justin Martyr
33
3
Clement of Alexandria
36
1
Tertullian
37
2
Origen
39
4
PROLOGUE II: OTHER FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS
43
26
Philo of Alexandria
44
7
On the Account of the World's Creation Given by Moses (2-6, 44-46)
46
5
Plotinus
51
10
Enneads (Ennead I, Tractate 6)
53
8
Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite
61
8
The Divine Names (Chapter 4, Sections 18-21, 30; 7, 3)
62
7
AUGUSTINE
69
74
On the Free Choice of the Will (Book II)
72
27
Confessions (Book VIII 5, 8-12 and XI, 14-28)
99
15
City of God (Book VIII, Chapters 1-12; XI, 26; XII, 1-9; XIX, 11-17)
114
29
EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
143
74
Boethius
145
15
The Second Edition of the Commentaries on the Isagoge of Porphyry (Book I, Chapters 10-11)
147
4
The Consolation of Philosophy (Book V)
151
9
John Scotus Eriugena
160
9
Periphyseon: On the Division of Nature (Book I, Chapters 1-7, 11-12, 13-14)
162
7
Anselm (and Guanilo)
169
9
Proslogion (Preface, Chapters 1-4)
171
2
Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate
173
5
Peter Abelard
178
22
On Universals (selections)
180
8
Ethics (Prologue, Chapters 1-3, 10-12)
188
12
Hildegard of Bingen
200
7
Scivias (Book I, Vision 4, Chapters 16-26)
202
5
John of Salisbury
207
10
Metalogicon (Book II, Chapter 17)
209
2
Statesman (Policratus) (Chapters 1-3)
211
6
ISLAMIC AND JEWISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
217
72
Avicenna
219
15
Essay on the Secret of Destiny
221
2
Concerning the Soul (Chapters 1-2, 4, b, 12-13)
223
11
Al-Ghazali
234
5
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Introduction, and Preface One)
235
4
Averroes
239
22
The Decisive Treatise
241
20
Moses Maimonides
261
28
The Guide for the Perplexed (Part I, Chapters 51-53, 58-60; II, Introduction, 13, 17; III, 12)
263
26
THIRTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
289
42
Robert Grosseteste
291
8
On Light
292
7
Roger Bacon
299
11
The Opus Majus (Part IV, 1, 3; VI, 1-2)
301
9
Bonaventure
310
21
The Mind's Road to God (Prologue, Chapters 1-3)
312
12
On the Eternity of the World (selections)
324
7
THOMAS AQUINAS
331
106
Summa Theologica (selections)
335
75
The Principles of Nature
410
10
On Being and Essence
420
17
LATE MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
437
86
John Duns Scotus
439
29
A Treatise on God as First Principle (Chapter 3)
441
5
Reportata Parisiensia (in part)
446
2
Prologue to the Ordinatio
448
20
William of Ockham
468
27
On Universals (Summa Logicae, Part I, Chapters 14-16)
471
8
On Being (Summa Logicae, Part I, Chapter 38)
479
2
On Knowledge (Quodlibetol Questions, First Quodlibet, Question 13)
481
3
On God (selections)
484
7
On Politics (Eight Questions on the Power of the Pope, Question 2, Chapters 1, 7)
491
4
Meister Eckhart
495
7
Sermon #1
497
5
Catherine of Siena
502
13
Letter #58
504
2
The Dialogue (1-3, 4, 7, 23, 79)
506
9
Nicholas Cusanas
515
8
On Learned Ignorance (Chapters 1-4, 26)
516
7
EPILOGUE: GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA
523
2
Oration on the Dignity of Man (1-7)
525