Early Modern Philosophy - Primary Resources

Bacon: The New Organon and The New Atlantis

Hobbes: Leviathan and Of Liberty and Necessity

Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on Method

Spinoza: Ethics

Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises on Government, and A Letter Concerning Toleration

Malebranche: The Search After Truth

Newton: Principia Mathematica

Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics, Monadology, and New Essays on Human Understanding

Bayle: Historical and Critical Dictionary articles on "Atheism," "Toleration," "Luther," and "King David"

Mandeville: The Fable of the Bees

Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Voltaire: Philosophical Letters and Candide

Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Rousseau: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, The Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and Emile (or Treatise on Education)

Smith: The Wealth of Nations

Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgment