The Eighth Edition of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Western
Philosophy offers the same exacting standard of editing and
translation that made earlier editions of this anthology the most
highly valued and widely used volume of its kind. But the Eighth
Edition offers exciting new content as well: Plato's Laches
(complete), new selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (on
courage), Descartes' Discourse on Method (complete), all previously
omitted sections of Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles
of Human Knowledge, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
(complete). These additions--with no offsetting deletion of content
of the Seventh Edition--yield an anthology of unrivaled
versatility, the only one to offer the complete texts of: both
Descartes' Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy,
both Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human
Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Kant's
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics and selections from the
Critique of Pure Reason.