Early Modern Philosophy
Inquiries into reason, experience, knowledge and human nature in early modern thought.
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Advancement of Learning, The, by Francis Bacon (1605), the original title being ‘Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human.’ This book, received with great favor by the court and by scholars, was…
Bacon's “new instrument” for the study of nature, published in Latin in 1620 as the second part of his unfinished Great Instauration.
Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon.
Hobbes’s account of the commonwealth as an artificial man, made by the covenant of every man with every man to escape the war of all against all: the nature of man, the rights of the sovereign and the liberty of…
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.
Hume's first collection of essays, in two volumes (1741, 1742).
Four Dissertations is a collection of four essays by the Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume, first published in 1757.