Major Works: Modern Philosophy (16th Century-18th Century)

New and Published Books

1. David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus

   Edited by Stanley Tweyman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Based on the original handwritten manuscript, this book provides a new, accurate edition of Hume’s important work, faithful to his original text, marginal notes, and changes. Stanley Tweyman’s comprehensive introduction gives an interpretation of the Dialogues as a whole, as well as close analysis...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Deity and Morality

   With Regard to the Naturalistic Fallacy

   By Burton F. Porter

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   This book describes the "naturalistic fallacy", as attributed to Hume, that non-moral premises cannot logically entail a moral conclusion, and distinguishes it from the similarly named though subtly different fallacy identified by Moore in Principia Ethica by comparing and contrasting its presence...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Religion, Secularization and Political Thought

   Thomas Hobbes to J. S. Mill

   Edited by James E. Crimmins

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Hidden God

   A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pense´es of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine

   By Lucien Goldmann

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   The concept of ‘world visions’, first elaborated in the early work of Georg Lukàcs, is used here as a tool whereby the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées and Kant’s critical philosophy are contrasted with the rationalism of Descartes and the empiricism of Hume. For Lucien Goldmann, a leading...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell

   By Kenneth Blackwell

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   Bertrand Russell’s professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge. In this study, first published in 1985, however, Kenneth Blackwell considers Russell’s writings on ethics and metaethics and uncovers the conceptual unity in Russell’s normative...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. John Locke

   Edited by Peter R. Anstey

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

   Today, John Locke is recognized as one of the most important and formative philosophical influences on the modern world. His imprint is still felt in political and legal thought, in educational theory, moral theory and in the theory of knowledge. Locke’s key works, Two Treatises of Government, and...

   Published July 30th 2006 by Routledge
7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

   Edited by John T. Scott

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers

   Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a pivotal thinker in the history of political philosophy, and in that of thought and literature more generally. Making major contributions in a variety of areas, he brought his political theory to bear on subjects such as the novel, music, education, and...

   Published December 19th 2005 by Routledge
8. Hobbes

   Morals and Politics

   By D D Raphael, D. D. Raphael

   First published in 1977 this book is both expository and critical and concentres on Hobbes' ethical and political theory, but also considering the effect on these of his metaphysics. Updated, with a new preface especially for this re-issue, which brings together recent scholarship on Hobbes, a...

   Published December 24th 2003 by Routledge
9. John Locke

   By Geraint Parry

   From earliest times Locke's writings have been the subject of controversy. An intellectual caught up in the politics of late 17th century England, his writings on politics reveal a man attempting to combine an analysis of the underlying principles of society with a deep commitment to a specific...

   Published December 24th 2003 by Routledge
10. David Hume

    Critical Assessments

    Edited by Stanley Tweyman

    Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

    These volumes bring together for the first time some of the most important research on the philosophy of David Hume. Hume wrote on a large variety of philosophic topics, and many of these are addressed in these volumes. The volumes cover the following areas: Volume 1 - Epistemology, Reason; Volume...

    Published December 21st 1994 by Routledge