List of Authors and Texts
Below is a full list of the texts available on this site, arranged chronologically by author. To download the texts themselves, click on the author's name. (Selecting the author from the drop-down menu on the right has the same effect.)
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Essays by Francis Bacon (1597)
- The New Organon (1620)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- A Fragment on Government (1776)
- An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1780)
- George Berkeley (1685-1753)
- Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1709/1733)
- The Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)
- Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)
- Alciphron (1732)
- Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
- The Origin of Forms and Qualities, Part 1 (1666)
- The Grounds for and Excellence of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Philosophy (1674)
- The Excellence of Theology, compared with Natural Philosophy (1674)
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Joseph Butler (1692-1752)
- Exchange of Letters with Samuel Clarke (1713-4)
- Preface and Five Sermons from Fifteen Sermons (1726)
- Samuel Clarke (1675-1729)
- Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God (1704)
- Exchange of Letters with Joseph Butler (1713-4)
- Exchange of Papers with Leibniz (1715-6)
- Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794)
- Sketch for an Historical Picture of the Advances of the Human Mind (1795)
- Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
- The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns (1819)
- Anne Conway (1631-1679)
- The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692)
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
- Selected Correspondence (1619-1650)
- Discourse on the Method (1637)
- Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
- Objections to the Meditations, and Descartes' Replies (1642)
- Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth (1643-9)
- Principles of Philosophy (1644)
- Conversation with Burman (1648)
- Passions of the Soul (1649)
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
- The Freedom of the Will (1754)
- A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue (1765)
- Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655)
- Happiness (1592)
- Sophie de Grouchy (1764-1822)
- Letters on Sympathy (1798)
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Leviathan (1651)
- David Hume (1711-1776)
- Abstract of the Treatise of Human Nature (1740)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
- Four Essays (1757)
- The Natural History of Religion (1757)
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40)
- Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)
- An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, and Design (1725)
- An Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Morality (1725)
- William James (1842-1910)
- The Will to Believe (1894)
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- The Form and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World (1770)
- Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysic (1783)
- Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)
- Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786)
- Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason (1793)
- Toward Perpetual Peace (1795)
The Critique of Pure Reason (1781 and 1787)
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
- Man—Machine (1748)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
- Freedom and Possibility (1680)
- Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas (1684)
- Leibniz's Correspondence with Arnauld (1686-7)
- Contingency (1686)
- First Truths (1686)
- Discourse on Metaphysics (1686)
- Real-Life Dialogue on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil (1695)
- Essay on Dynamics (1695)
- A New System (1695)
- Leibniz's Exchange of Views with Pierre Bayle (1697-1702)
- The Ultimate Origin of Things (1697)
- Nature Itself (1698)
- Making the Case for God (1710)
- Principles of Nature and Grace (1714)
- Monadology (1714)
- Leibniz's Exchange of Papers with Clarke (1715-6)
New Essays on Human Understanding (1705)
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- Second Treatise of Government (1689)
- Toleration (1689)
- The Conduct of the Understanding (1706)
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
- The Prince (1532)
- Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
- Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688)
- Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
- Damaris Masham (1659-1708)
- Discourse concerning the Love of God (1696)
- Occasional thoughts regarding a Virtuous or Christian Life, 1705 (1705)
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)
- Jerusalem: or Religious Power and Judaism (1782)
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- Essays on Bentham and Coleridge (1838)
- Liberty (1859)
- Utilitarianism (1863)
- The Subjection of Women (1869)
- Nature (1843)
- Autobiography (1873)
Essays (1838)
A System of Logic (1843)
Three Essays on Religion (1873)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- Essays, Book I (1580)
- Essays, Book II (1580)
- Essays, Book III (1588)
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Descartes, Space and Body (1666)
- A New Theory of Light and Colours (1671)
- William Paley (1743-1805)
- Natural Theology (1802)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- Pensées (1660)
- Richard Price (1723-1791)
- A Review of the Principle Questions in Morals (1758)
- Thomas Reid (1710-1796)
- An Inquiry into the Human Mind (1764)
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785)
Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
- The Social Contract (1762)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
- The World as Will and Presentation (1818)
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
- Enthusiasm (1708)
- The Freedom of Wit and Humour (1709)
- The Moralists (1709)
- Soliloquy: Advice to an Author (1710)
- An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit (1711)
- Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900)
- The Methods of Ethics (1874)
- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
- Correspondence (1661-1676)
- Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (1665)
- Treatise on Theology and Politics (1669)
- Political Treatise (1675)
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
- Treatise on Tolerance (1763)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)