Classics of Philosophy: Volume II

 Classics of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern and Contemporary covers the works of philosophers from Descartes to Rawls. Ideal for courses in modern and contemporary philosophy, it includes forty-eight extensive selections-seventeen of them complete-from twenty-nine philosophers. This collection offers an unrivaled introduction to the major works of these periods. A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers. Also look for Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval, which covers the works of philosophers from Thales to William of Ockham. In addition, there is a single-volume edition available that combines Volume I and Volume II, providing the most comprehensive anthology of writings in western philosophy in print. 

 

Preface. Part III: The Modern Period. 15: Rene Descartes. 16: Thomas Hobbes. 17: Blaise Pascal. 18: Baruch Spinoza. 19: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. 20: John Locke. 21: George Berkeley. 22: William Paley. 23: David Hume. 24: Immanuel Kant. 25: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. 26: Arthur Schopenhauer. 27: Soren Kierkegaard. 28: John Stuart Mill. 29: Karl Marx. 30: Friedrich Nietzsche. Part IV: The Contemporary Period. 31: W. K. Clifford. 32: Charles S. Pierce. 33: William James. 34: Bertrand Russell. 35: G. E. Moore. 36: Ludwig Wittgenstein. 37: Edmund Husserl. 38: Martin Heidegger. 39: Jean-Paul Sartre. 40: A. J. Ayer. 41: W. V. O. Quine. 42: Nelson Goodman. 43: John Rawls