About the Book: Ancient Philosophy: Philosophic Classics: Volume I, 7th Edition
This seventh edition of Philosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy
includes essential writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with
selections from some of their Roman followers. In updating this edition, editor
Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the
late Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established:
(1) to use complete works or, where more appropriate, complete sections of works
(2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to the thinkers philosophy or
widely accepted as part of the "canon." To make the works