Modern Philosophy - From Descartes to Nietzsche An Anthology [Paperback]

Modern Philosophy: An Anthology features a broad range of selections from important but seldom anthologized works in the philosophy of psychology, natural science, morality, politics and religion.

• Features a broad range of selections from works in the philosophy of psychology, natural science, morality, politics and religion.
• Places the modern thinkers in conversation with each other, including Leibniz on Descartes and Spinoza, Reid on Locke and Hume, and Kant on Hobbes.
• Offers important, but seldom anthologized primary works.

Acknowledgements..

Part I: René Descartes (1596–1650):.

Introduction..

1. The Treatise on Light.

Description of a New World (ch. 6).

The Laws of Nature of This New World (ch. 7).

2. Principles of Philosophy.

The Principles of Human Knowledge(Part 1).

3. The Passions of the Soul.

The Passions in General (Part 1).

Part II: Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679):.

Introduction..

4. Concerning Body (De Corpore).

Of Method (from Part 1, ch. 6).

5. The Citizen (De Cive).

Of the Causes and First Beginning of Civil Government (Part 2, ch. 5).

6. On Man (De Homine).

On Speech and Sciences (Bk XX).

On Appetite and Aversion, Pleasure and Displeasure and Their Causes l£+