书名：Ten Great Works of Philosophy十篇经典哲学著作
作者：Plato柏拉图、Aristotle亚里斯多德等
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2002
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451528308
商品尺寸：10.7 x 2.9x 17.2 cm
包装：简装
页数：578 （以实物为准）

Ten Great Works of Philosophy《十篇优秀哲学著作》精选了从古希腊到19世纪美国的哲学著作十篇。由美国当代政治哲学家Robert Paul Wolff主编，并作序言。本书所收的十篇哲学著作都是哲学史上的代表作，适合有一定英语水平的哲学爱好者或研究者。
In its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Each philosopher in this volume made intellectual history; each created a revolution in ideas; each reaffirmed man’s view of himself as a sentient being capable of creating order out of the baffling contradictions of existence. And the most powerful reflections and speculations of each are represented here.

Introductory Remarks to the Reader
Plato:Apology
Critoand the Death of Socrates,
fromPhado
Aristotle:Poetics
St. Anselm and St.Thomas Aquinas: Proofs for theExistence of God
The Ontological Proof of St. Anselm, fromProslogium
St. Thomas’Proofs of God’s Existence, fromThe 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

Robert Paul Wolffwas born in 1933 in New York City. He was educated at Harvard University, receiving his doctorate in philosophy in 1957. Following a brief period of service in the military, he taught at Harvard, The University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of Massachusetts, from which he retired in 2008 after a career spanning half a century. Wolff is the author or editor of twenty-three books, which have been translated into sixteen languages. He is best known around the world for a short book titledIn Defense of Anarchism, which has most recently appeared in Croatian, Malaysian, and Korean. For a somewhat more extended biography, you may consult the article on him on Wikipedia.com. Those who want to know every last detail of his life may read his eight hundred page, three volume, autobiography, which is posted on box.net and is accessible from his blog: www.robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com. Wolff is married to his childhood sweetheart, Susan, and lives in Chapel Hill, NC. He has two sons: Patrick Gideon Wolff, a famous International Chess Grandmaster who now is the Managing Director of a hedge fund, Grandmaster Capital, and Tobias Barrington Wolff, a leading Gay Rights legal activist and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. Wolff has one cat, named Christmas Eve.
In 1990, after several years of activity in the movement to end apartheid in South Africa and liberate the South African people, Wolff founded University Scholarships for South African Students, which has in the past two decades helped more than one thousand five hundred young Black men and women in South Africa get a higher education. In March, 2011, Wolff was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the Western Cape in South Africa in recognition of his work for South African higher education.
柏拉图（Plato，约公元前427年－前347年），古希腊哲学家。他写下了许多哲学的对话录，并且在雅典创办了学院。柏拉图是苏格拉底的学生，也是亚里士多德的老师，他们三人被广泛认为是西方哲学的奠基者。如同许多古老的文献，柏拉图留下的文集残缺不全、而且依然存在争议。他记载的苏格拉底对话录成为后人研究他们思想的主要来源，但许多内容其实记载的是柏拉图自己的看法，而不是苏格拉底的原意。
亚里士多德（Aristotle，前384—前322年），古希腊斯吉塔拉人，是世界古代史上非常伟大的哲学家、科学家和教育家之一。亚里士多德是柏拉图的学生，亚历山大的老师。公元前335年，他在雅典办了一所叫吕克昂的学校，被称为逍遥学派。马克思曾称亚里士多德是古希腊哲学家中非常博学的人物，恩格斯称他是古代的黑格尔。亚里士多德一生勤奋治学，从事的学术研究涉及到逻辑学、修辞学、物理学、生物学、教育学、心理学、政治学、经济学、美学等，写下了大量的著作，他的著作是古代的百科全书，据说有四百到一千部，主要有《工具论》《形而上学》《物理学》《伦理学》《政治学》《诗学》等。他的思想对人类产生了深远的影响。他创立了形式逻辑学，丰富和发展了哲学的各个分支学科，对科学作出了巨大的贡献。
Saint Anselm of Canterbury(1033–1109) was the outstanding Christian philosopher and theologian of the eleventh century. He is best known for the celebrated “ontological argument” for the existence of God in theProslogion, but his contributions to philosophical theology (and indeed to philosophy more generally) go well beyond the ontological argument. In what follows I examine Anselm’s theistic proofs, his conception of the divine nature, and his account of human freedom, sin, and redemption.