SOME TEXTS FROM EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY * Home * Texts * FAQs o Who is Jonathan Bennett? o Why Translate the Texts? o How Have the Texts Been Modified? o What Format are the Texts In? o How May I Use these Texts? o Where Can I Find the Original Texts? o Who Maintains this Site? * Comments * Contact * List of Authors and Texts Below is a full list of the texts available on this site, arranged chronologically by author. To download the texts themselves, click on the author's name. (Selecting the author from the drop-down menu on the right has the same effect.) * *Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) * o The Prince (1532) * *Francis Bacon (1561-1626) * o The New Organon (1620) * *Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) * o Leviathan (1651) * *Ren Descartes (1596-1650) * o Selected Correspondence (1619-1650) o Discourse on the Method (1637) o Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) o Objections to the Meditations, and Descartes' Replies (1642) o Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth (1643-9) o Principles of Philosophy (1644) o Conversation with Burman (1648) o Passions of the Soul (1649) * *Robert Boyle (1627-1691) * o The Origin of Forms and Qualities, Part 1 (1666) o The Grounds for and Excellence of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Philosophy (1674) * *Anne Conway (1631-1679) * o The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692)

* *Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) * o Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (1665) o Treatise on Theology and Politics (1669) * *John Locke (1632-1704) * o Second Treatise of Government (1689) o Toleration (1689) o Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) * *Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) * o Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688) * *Isaac Newton (1642-1727) * o Descartes, Space and Body (1666) o A New Theory of Light and Colours (1671) * *Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) * o Freedom and Possibility (1680) o Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas (1684) o Leibniz's Correspondence with Arnauld (1686-7) o Contingency (1686) o First Truths (1686) o Discourse on Metaphysics (1686) o Real-Life Dialogue on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil (1695) o Essay on Dynamics (1695) o A New System (1695) o Leibniz's Exchange of Views with Pierre Bayle (1697-1702) o The Ultimate Origin on Things (1697) o Nature Itself (1698) o New Essays on Human Understanding (1705) o Making the Case for God (1710) o Principles of Nature and Grace (1714) o Monadology (1714) o Leibniz's Exchange of Papers with Clarke (1715-6) * *Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) * o Enthusiasm (1708) o The Freedom of Wit and Humour (1709) o The Moralists (1709) o Soliloquy: Advice to an Author (1710) o An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit (1711) * *Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) * o Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God (1704) o Exchange of Letters with Joseph Butler (1713-4) o Exchange of Papers with Leibniz (1715-6) * *George Berkeley (1685-1753) * o The Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) o Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) o Alciphron (1732) * *Joseph Butler (1692-1752) * o Exchange of Letters with Samuel Clarke (1713-4) o Preface and Five Sermons from Fifteen Sermons (1726) o Three Episodes from the Analogy of Religion (1736) * *Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) * o An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, and Design (1725)

o An Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Morality (1725) * *Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) * o The Freedom of the Will (1754) o A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue (1765) * *Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) * o Man Machine (1748) * *Thomas Reid (1710-1796) * o An Inquiry into the Human Mind (1764) o Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) o Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788) * *David Hume (1711-1776) * o A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) o An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) o An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) o Four Essays (1757) o Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779) * *Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) * o The Social Contract (1762) * *Adam Smith (1723-1790) * o The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) * *Richard Price (1723-1791) * o A Review of the Principle Questions in Morals (1758) * *Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) * o The Form and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World (1770) o The Critique of Pure Reason (1781 and 1787) o Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysic (1783) o Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals (1785) o Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786) o Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason (1793) o Toward Perpetual Peace (1795) * *Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) * o Jerusalem: or Religious Power and Judaism (1782) * *Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) * o A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) * *Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) * o The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns (1819) * *John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) * o A System of Logic (1843) o Liberty (1859) o Utilitarianism (1863) o The Subjection of Women (1869) o Three Essays on Religion (1873) * *Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) * o The Methods of Ethics (1874)

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