Central Works of Philosophy 1: Ancient and Medieval

This collection of essays showcases the most important and influential philosophical works of the ancient and medieval period, roughly from 600 BC to AD 1600. Each chapter takes a particular work of philosophy and discusses its proponent, its content and central arguments. These are: Plato's Republic ; Aristotle' Nichomachean Ethics ; Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe ; Sextus Emperiicus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism ; Plotinus' The Enneads ; Augustine's City of God ; Anselm's Proslogion ; Aquinas' Summa Theologia ; Duns Scotus' Ordinatio ; William of Ockham's Summa Logicae .