Signet Classics 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. Plato: Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates, from Phado. Aristotle: Poetics. St. Ansem: The ontological Proof of St. Ansem, from Proslogium. St. Thomas Aquinas: St. Thomas" Proofs of God"s Existence, from the Summa Theologica. Rene Descartes: Meditations on the First Philosophy. David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. John...