David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. He is the author of a number of books including Metaphor (1986), Existentialism (1990, second edition 1999) and World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (1996). He is also editor of A Companion to Aesthetics (1992), and three previous volumes in the series Philosophy: The Classic Readings - Aesthetics (1997), Ethics (1997) and Epistemology (1999). All of the above are published by Blackwell.

• Series Preface. Introduction.1. Tao Te Ching, Selected Chapters.2. Plato, Phaedrus 245-50: Plato.3. Metaphysics Books VII-VIII (Selected Chapters): Aristotle.4. (A) Sayings On 'Conditioned Genesis'. (B) Lalitavistara, XIII 95-117. (C) Nagarjuna, Madhyamaka-Karika, Dedication and Chapter 25: Gotama (The Buddha).5. Brahmasutrabhasya (Selections): Samkara.6. Principles of Philosophy Part I: René: Descartes.7. Ethics Part I: Benedict De Spinoza.8. An Essay Concernin g Human Understanding Book II, Chapters 8 and 23 (1-11): John Locke.9. Monadology: G. W. Liebnitz.10. The Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I: 1-37: George Berkeley.11. Critique of Pure Reason Second Edition, Transcendental Aesthetic, 1-3, 8: Immanuel Kant.12. The World As Will and Representation, Vol II, Chapter 18: Arthur Schopenhauer.13. An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, Chapter 11: John Stuart Mill.14. Appearance and Reality, Chapters 13 and 14: F. H. Bradley.15. 'The One and The Many': William James.16. The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Lecture VIII: Bertrand Russell.17. A. N. Whitehead, Process and Reality, Part I, Chapters 1 and 2 (Selected Sections): A. N. Whitehead.18. Being and Time, 14-15, 19, 21: Martin Heidegger.Index.