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Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with CommentaryISBN: 978-1-4051-3567-2
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336 pages
January 2007, ©2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments.
General Introduction.
Part I: Science, Skepticism, and Religion.
Introduction.
1. The Apology for Raymond Sebond: Michel de Montaigne.
2. The New Organon: Francis Bacon.
3. Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina and The Assayer: Galileo Galilei.
4. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences: René Descartes.
5. Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes.
6. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Isaac Newton.
Part II: Descartes and his Critics.
Introduction.
7. The Meditations on First Philosophy: René Descartes.
8. The Second Set of Objections with Replies by Descartes: collected by Marin Mersenne.
9. The Third Set of Objections with Replies by Descartes: Thomas Hobbes.
10. The Fourth Set of Objections with Replies by Descartes: Antoine Arnauld.
11. The Fifth Set of Objections with Replies by Descartes: Pierre Gassendi.
12. Letters to and from Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
13. Pensées: Blaise Pascal.
Part III: Rationalism.
Introduction.
14. The Ethics: Benedict Spinoza.
15. The Search After Truth: Nicolas Malebranche.
16. Discourse on Metaphysics: G. W. F. Leibniz.
17. The Theodicy: Abridgement of the Argument: G. W. F. Leibniz.
18. The Monadology: G. W. F. Leibniz.
Part IV: Political Philosophy.
Introduction.
19. The Prince: Niccolò Machiavelli.
20. Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes.
21. On the Duty of Man and Citizen: Samuel Pufendorf.
Further Reading.
Index