earlymoderntexts.com - Early Modern Texts

Description: A selection of philosophy texts by philosophers of the early modern period, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought. Texts include the writings of Hume, Descartes, Bacon, Berkeley, Newton, Locke, Mill, Edwards, Kant, Leibniz, Malebranche, Spinoza, Hobbes, and Reid. Translated by Jonathan F. Bennett.

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On this site you will find versions of 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.

The site is now (2023) operated by the text-preparer Jonathan Bennett and his Canadian team.

Thomas J. Felicitano - an American writer based in Istanbul - has digitized our works into the e-book formats of .epub (for e-readers, tablets, cell phones) and .mobi (for Kindle).

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