Introduction: Witnessing Philosophers
Philosopher Educates a Tyrant / Plato
Philosophy as a Guide to Life / Seneca
Two Cities: Two Roads to Knowledge / Augustine
Calamities and Credos / Abelard and Heloise
Why I Write ... and How I Write / Moses Maimonides
How to Think Well / Francis Bacon
Moving Toward Clarity / Rene Descartes
Descartes' Dream / Adrien Baillet
Limits of Thought / Blaise Pascal
"Justice I Teach, and Reverence Justice" / Thomas Hobbes
"The Life of Hobbes" / John Aubrey
Wisdom and the Improvement of the Understanding / Baruch Spinoza
Origins of Philosophical Ideas / John Locke
God, Mind, and Logic / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Philosophy Does Not Need Abstract Ideas / George Berkeley
"Mr. David Hume" / Adam Smith
Imagination, Language, and the Inventions of Philosophy / Giambattista Vico
Good Sense and Nonsense / Voltaire
Meditations on My Trouble Heart / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Clarity Against Dogmatic Superstition / Denis Diderot
Tasks of Philosophy / Immanuel Kant
Culture and the Stages of the Imagination / Johann Gottfried Herder
Idealism and Self-Reflection / Johann Gottlieb Fichte
New Science of Philosophy / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Vitality and the Tasks of Life / Arthur Schopenhauer
Accounting for Rationality / Jeremy Bentham
Education and Social Progress / John Stuart Mill
Philosophy as Political Critique / Karl Marx
Speech at the Graveside of Marx / Friedrich Engels
Many Faces of an Author / Soren Kierkegaard
Overcoming My Life / Friedrich Nietzsche
Autobiographical Note / Charles Sanders Peirce
Philosophy and Emergent Morality / William James
From Absolutism to Experimentalism / John Dewey
My Host the World / George Santayana
Why I Became a Philosopher / Bertrand Russell
Logical Arrangements / Ludwig Wittgenstein
My Way to Phenomenology / Martin Heidegger
Autobiography / Rudolph Carnap
Self-Portrait at Seventy / Jean-Paul Sartre
Writing a Life of Writing / Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher in the Midst of War / Takatura Ando
Philosophical Apprenticeships / Hans-Georg Gadamer
Thinking Through the Good Life / Hannah Arendt
My Intellectual Path / Isaiah Berlin
My Interests in Philosophy / G. E. M. Anscombe
Many Sources of Philosophic Reflection / Kwame Anthony Appiah.
