Reality

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Reality brings together philosophical and literary works representing the many ways—metaphysical, scientific, analytic, phenomenological, literary—in which philosophers and others have reflected on questions about reality.

Contents:

• Introduction.

• Excerpts from the Upanishads
• Fragments from the Pre-Socratics
• Plato, from Phaedo and Republic, with “A Reading of Plato’s Cave,” by C. Levenson
• Aristotle, from Categories and Metaphysics
• Augustine, from Enarrationes in Psalmos
• Aquinas, from Summa Theologica
• Descartes, from Principles of Philosophy and Discourse on Method
• Spinoza, from Short Treatise on God, Man and Nature
• Leibniz, from Monadology
• Locke, from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Berkeley, from Principles of Human Knowledge
• Hume, from Treatise of Human Nature
• Kant, from Critique of Pure Reason
• Hegel, from The Phenomenology of Spirit
• Mach, from The Analysis of Sensations
• Bergson, from An Introduction to Metaphysics
• Husserl, from Ideas
• Russell, from The Problems of Philosophy
• Eddington, from The Nature of the Physical World
• Wittgenstein, from Philosophical Investigations
• Quine, from The Ways of Paradox
• Austin, from Sense and Sensibilia
• Proust, from Remembrance of Things Past
• Weil, from Gravity and Grace

• Suggested Further Readings.