Ebook: The English philosophers : from Bacon to Mill
Author: Edwin Arthur Burtt
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Philosophy
- Tags: Philosophy English, Philosophie anglaise, Filosofia (Historia)
- Series: Modern library of the world’s best books
- Year: 1939
- Publisher: Modern Library
- City: New York
- Language: English
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The thirteen essays in this Modern Library edition comprise a complete survey of the golden age of English philosophy. The anthology begins in the early seventeenth century with Francis Bacon's comprehensive program for the total reorganization of all knowledge; it culminates, some two hundred and fifty years later, with John Stuart Mill. The thinkers represented here are the creators of the twentieth-century world. Read more...
Francis Bacon: The Great Instauration 5, Novum Organum* 24 Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan*: or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil 129 John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding* 238, An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government 403 George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 509 David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 585, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 690 John Gay: Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality 769 Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation* 791 James Mill: Government 857 John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism 895, On Liberty 949 *Abridged