<i>Philosophy: The Classic Readings</i> provides a comprehensive, single-volume collection of the greatest works of philosophy from ancient to modern times.<ul><li>Draws on both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions<li>Arranged chronologically within parts on Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, and Political Philosophy<li>Features original readings from more than a hundred of the world's great philosophers - from Lao Tzu, Confucius, the Buddha, Plato, Samkara, Aquinas, al-Ghazali, Kant, and Kierkegaard, to Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Arendt, and Quine and many others<li>Provides an extensive Timeline of Philosophy for situating historical figures and lines of thought</ul>