Late Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary

General Introduction.

Part I: Empiricism.

Introduction.

1. Essay concerning Human Understanding: John Locke.

2. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists: George Berkeley.

3. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding: David Hume.

4. A Treatise of Human Nature: David Hume.

Part II: Critics of Empiricism.

Introduction.

5. New Essays concerning Human Understanding: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

6. The Leibniz–Clarke Correspondence: Gottfried Leibniz and Samuel Clarke.

7. An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense: Thomas Reid.

Part III: Kant’s Critique of Rationalism and Empiricism.

Introduction.

8. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: Immanuel Kant.

Part IV: Arguments for the Existence of God.

Introduction.

9. A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: Samuel Clarke.

10. Natural Theology: William Paley.

11. Dialogues concerning Natural Religion: David Hume.

12. Critique of Pure Reason: Immanuel Kant.

Part V: Political Philosophy.

Introduction.

13. Second Treatise on Government: John Locke.

14. Of the Original Contract: David Hume.

15. On the Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Part VI: Moral Philosophy.

Introduction.

16. Discourse concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion: Samuel Clarke.

17. A Treatise of Human Nature: David Hume.

18. A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals: Richard Price.

19. The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Adam Smith.

20. Lectures on Ethics: Immanuel Kant.

21. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Immanuel Kant.

22. Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind: Thomas Reid.

23. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: Jeremy Bentham.

24. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft.

Suggestions for Further Reading.

Index