The English philosophers
Subtitle: from Bacon to Mill
By: edited, with an introduction, by Edwin A. Burtt.
Series: The Modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: The Modern library
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1041
Subjects: Philosophy, English
Description: 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. Indebted to them is a long line of economists, sociologists, and political leaders whose work has profoundly influenced the life and thought of our own time. Included are the excerpts from Francis Bacon's The Great Instauration, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The complete texts are provided for Locke's second "Treatise of Government", George Berkeley's "Treatise Concerning the Principle's of Human Knowledge", David Hume's "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", John Gay's "Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality", James Mill's "Government", and John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" and "On Liberty". With an introduction as well as nine biographical prefaces by Edwin A. Burtt.
Notes: "First Modern library giant edition."
Includes biographical sketches.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by E. A. Burtt.; title: Bibliography (p. xxiii-xxiv); title: Bacon, Francis. The great instauration. Novum organum.; title: Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan.; title: Locke, John. An essay concerning human understanding. An essay concerning the true original, extent, and end of civil government.; title: Berkeley, George. A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge.; title: Hume, David. An enquiry concerning human understanding. Dialogues concerning natural religion.; title: Gay, John. Concerning the fundamental principle of virtue or morality.; title: Bentham, Jeremy. An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation.; title: Mill, James. Government.; title: Mill, J. S. Utilitarianism. On liberty.