The many faces of philosophy: reflections from Plato to Arendt

Introduction: Witnessing Philosophers

Philosopher Educates a Tyrant / Plato

Philosophy as a Guide to Life / Seneca

Two Cities: Two Roads to Knowledge / Augustine

My Life / Al Ghazali

Calamities and Credos / Abelard and Heloise

Why I Write ... and How I Write / Moses Maimonides

How to Think Well / Francis Bacon

Moving Toward Clarity / Rene Descartes

Descartes' Dream / Adrien Baillet

Limits of Thought / Blaise Pascal

"Justice I Teach, and Reverence Justice" / Thomas Hobbes

"The Life of Hobbes" / John Aubrey

Wisdom and the Improvement of the Understanding / Baruch Spinoza

Origins of Philosophical Ideas / John Locke

God, Mind, and Logic / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Philosophy Does Not Need Abstract Ideas / George Berkeley

My Life / David Hume

"Mr. David Hume" / Adam Smith

Imagination, Language, and the Inventions of Philosophy / Giambattista Vico

Good Sense and Nonsense / Voltaire

Meditations on My Trouble Heart / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Clarity Against Dogmatic Superstition / Denis Diderot

Tasks of Philosophy / Immanuel Kant

Culture and the Stages of the Imagination / Johann Gottfried Herder

Idealism and Self-Reflection / Johann Gottlieb Fichte

New Science of Philosophy / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Vitality and the Tasks of Life / Arthur Schopenhauer

Accounting for Rationality / Jeremy Bentham

Education and Social Progress / John Stuart Mill

Philosophy as Political Critique / Karl Marx

Speech at the Graveside of Marx / Friedrich Engels

Many Faces of an Author / Soren Kierkegaard

Overcoming My Life / Friedrich Nietzsche

Autobiographical Note / Charles Sanders Peirce

Philosophy and Emergent Morality / William James

From Absolutism to Experimentalism / John Dewey

My Host the World / George Santayana

Why I Became a Philosopher / Bertrand Russell

Logical Arrangements / Ludwig Wittgenstein

My Way to Phenomenology / Martin Heidegger

Autobiography / Rudolph Carnap

Self-Portrait at Seventy / Jean-Paul Sartre

Writing a Life of Writing / Simone de Beauvoir

Philosopher in the Midst of War / Takatura Ando

Philosophical Apprenticeships / Hans-Georg Gadamer

Thinking Through the Good Life / Hannah Arendt

My Intellectual Path / Isaiah Berlin

My Interests in Philosophy / G. E. M. Anscombe

Many Sources of Philosophic Reflection / Kwame Anthony Appiah.