The seventh edition of Steven M. Cahn’s Classics of Western Philosophy adds selections from Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, Plotinus Enneads, Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation, Husserl’s Paris Lectures, and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.

The readings from Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit have been expanded, while selections from Hobbes’ Leviathan, Mill’s On Liberty, and Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy have been reedited.

All selections appear in expertly edited editions or preeminent translations, with introductions by a team of distinguished scholars including Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Richard Bett, Steven M.Cahn, Charles Guignon, Kathleen Higgins, Patricia Kitcher, Philip Kitcher, William E. Mann, Derk Pereboom, Ruth Anna Putnam, Israel Scheffler, David Shatz, George Sher, David Sherman, Jonathan Vogel, Meredith Williams, and Michael Williams.

The selections are generally entire works, not short snippets; when the entire work is not included, the selection is ample, judicious, and representative. Of course, most anthologists feel it necessary to include short biographical sketches of the contributors and a short synopsis of the works included; generally, they cannot refrain from interpreting the works for you. Cahn refrains, and also keeps his comments mercifully brief and readable.

This book could also support a whole early moderns course, as it features full texts of MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, MONADOLOGY, AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, and DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION. This great text also contains a well-selected excerpt from Kant’s KrV. If you are a philosophy instructor who loves great texts, and if you teach an historical approach to intro., this text is your choice.

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