Some Texts From Early Modern Philosophy
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The site’s most recent acquisitions were The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick. Not an early modern work, but one that I think can benefit from my kind of treatment. The problem was not unfamiliar meanings and syntax, but mere prolixity. It's a fine book, but wordier than it needs to be.

“Morals”, which was the only item in Reid’s Essays on the Active Powers of Man that wasn't already on this website.

I have given up working on Pascal's Pensées, My abilities are a poor fit with the needs of that job; it wasn't going well enough, so I threw it in. As I was told by a stock-investor friend of mine: When you have a loss, take it.

Next: some Descartes and Leibniz, probably.

Bacon
Berkeley
Boyle
Butler
Constant
Anne Conway
Descartes
Jonathan Edwards
Hobbes
Hume
Hutcheson
Kant
La Mettrie
Leibniz
Locke
Machiavelli
Malebranche
Mendelssohn
Mill
Newton
Richard Price
Reid
Rousseau
Shaftesbury
Sidgwick
Adam Smith
Spinoza
Wollstonecraft