Central works of philosophy. Volume 2 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Philosophy: Introduction; 1 René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy; 2 Baruch Spinoza: Ethics; 3 G.W. Leibniz: Monadology; 4 Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan; 5 John Locke: An Essay concerning Human Understanding; 6 George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; 7 David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature; 8 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract; Index;Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to Quine's Word and Object, the five volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers, each of them primary texts studied at undergraduate level. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work, clear and authoritative exposition of its central ideas, and an assessment of the work's importance then and n.