Read the translated writings of philosophers David Hume, Descartes, Francis Bacon, George Berkeley, Isaac Newton, John Locke, John Stuart, Mill, Jonathan Edwards, Kant, Leibniz, Malebranche, Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Reid. These philosophy topics have been translated to modern-day English by Jonathan Bennett who has taught philosophy for over 40 years at various universities including Cambridge, Cornell, Michigan, Princeton, British Columbia, and Syracuse.

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Philosophy Topics	From Bacon's The New Organon to Spinoza's Treatise on Theology and Politics, EarlyModernTexts.com presents writings on topics of early modern philosophy, translated to make them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.
Jonathan Bennett	Jonathan Bennett was formerly Lecturer in Moral Science at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and then at Syracuse University. He has held visiting positions at Cornell, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Princeton and Oxford and is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy.
Philosophers	The increasing rate of change in the English language ensures that fewer and fewer of today's readers can cope with the writings of philosophers of the 16th to 18th centuries. EarlyModernTexts.com reduces the obstacles so that students of philosophy can more easily come to grips with the philosophical thoughts the texts express.
Philosophy	EarlyModernTexts.com presents some classics of early modern philosophy, and a few from the 19th century, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.
David Hume	Review the philosophical discussions presented by David Hume (1711-1776), including Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and four additional essays.
Descartes	René Descartes (1596-1650) was an influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. Read his translated writings on Meditations on First Philosophy, Objections to the Meditations, and Descartes's Replies and Discourse on the Method.
Francis Bacon	Read the translated work of Francis Bacon (1561-1626): The New Organon. Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist and was also one of the founders of the scientific revolution -- and The New Organon was the work that primarily achieve that founding.
George Berkeley	George Berkeley (1685-1753) wrote Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous and Alciphron. Read these works, translated into modern day English at EarlyModernTexts.com.
Isaac Newton	Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was perhaps best known as an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. Read his philosophical writing on the work of his that dug most deeply into the philosophy of physics, Descartes, Space, and Body, translated into modern day English.
John Locke	John Locke (1632-1704) is regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory. Read his writings Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Second Treatise of Government, translated into modern-day English, at EarlyModernTexts.com.
John Stuart Mill	A British Member of Parliament, political economist and philosopher, John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) wrote Liberty, Utilitarianism, Three Essays on Religion. Read his works -- translated into modern-day English by Jonathan F. Bennett -- at EarlyModernTexts.com.
Jonathan Edwards	American philosophical theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758), was also a preacher and missionary to native Americans. He was widely regarded as America’s greatest philosopher, and his philosophical masterpiece entitled Freedom of the Will, as translated into current English, can be found at EarlyModernTexts.com.
Kant	German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) was born in what is now Kalinigrad, Russia and is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Enlightenment. Study his philosophical writings which have been translated into modern day English by Professor of Philosophy (ret.) Jonathan Bennett: Critique of Pure Reason, Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysic, Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals
Leibniz	As both a mathematician and philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) is widely credited with the discovery of the binary system, the foundation of virtually all modern computer architectures. His philosophy looks back to Scholastic tradition and anticipates modern logic and analysis. Read from his many writings, translated into modern-day English: New Essays on Human Understanding, Correspondence with Clarke, Freedom and Possibility, Meditations of Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas, Contingency, First Truths, Discourse on Metaphysics, Real-life Dialog on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil, Essay on Dynamics, New System, The Ultimate Origin of Things, Nature Itself, Making the Case for God, Principals of Nature and Grace, Monadology.
Malebranche	Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) was a French philosopher, who published Dialogues on Metaphysics in 1688. Read about this philosophical topic translated into modern-day English at EarlyModernTexts.com.
Spinoza	Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order and Treatise on Theology and Politics are two works of Benedict Spinoza / Baruch de Spinoza (1632 - 1677) who was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese origin and considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy. He was said by a contemporary to be "the most dangerous man of the century".
Thomas Hobbes	English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) authored Leviathan, and established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy. Study his works, translated into modern-day English, at EarlyModernTexts.com.
Thomas Reid	Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid (1710 - 1796) was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense. Review three of his philosophical works -- An Inquiry into the Human Mind, Essays on the Active Powers of Man and Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man -- translated into the English language of today.