Bibliograph

The English philosophers, from Bacon to Mill, edited, with an introduction, by Edwin A. Burtt

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The English philosophers, from Bacon to Mill, edited, with an introduction, by Edwin A. Burtt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxiv) and indexes

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The English philosophers

Oclc number

649526

Responsibility statement

edited, with an introduction, by Edwin A. Burtt

Series statement

The Modern library of the world's best books

Sub title

from Bacon to Mill

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction by E.A. Burtt -- The great instauration. Novum organum / Francis Bacon -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- An essay concerning human understanding. An essay concerning the true original, extent, and end of civil government / John Locke -- A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley -- An enquiry concerning human understanding. Dialogues concerning natural religion / David Hume -- Concerning the fundamental principle of virtue or morality / John Gay -- An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- Government / James Mill -- Utilitarianism. On liberty / J. S. Mill

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