European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML Giant G-16)

xxiv, 870 pp. 8vo. "Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing, Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least be studied, and we can ask whether any dominant themes, overall patterns of movement, or notable achievements can be found within it. This question is one that is best asked by the reader after he has read, or read around in, these works." CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction by Monroe C. Beardsley; Bibliography; Rene Descartes; Discourse on Methods, Parts I-III; Meditations on First Philosophy; Supplementary Passages - Intuition and Deduction, Metaphysical Doubt and Certainty, The Cogito, The Clearness and Distinctness Criterion, Infinity and the Idea of God, Innate Ideas, Eternal Truths, Is Descartes' Argument Circular?, Substance, Modes, Space and Bodies, The Pineal Gland, The Automatism of Brutes, Blaise Pascal, Thoughts (abridged); Baruch Spinoza; Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (abridged), Theologico-Political Treatise, Chapter XX; Supplementary Passages - Experience and Definition, Substance and Attribute, Natura Naturata, Man's Dependence upon God, Method, xcusability, The Nature of Evil; Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz; First Truths; Discourse on Metaphysics; Monadology; Supplementary Passages - Necessarya nd Contingent Truths, Space and Time, Expression, The Ontological Argument, The Relation between Soul and Body, Progress, Possibility and Existence, Matter, Monads, The Pre-established Harmony; Jean Jacques Rousseau; The Social Contract (abridged); Immanuel Kant; Critique of Pure Reason (abridged); Supplementary Passages - The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative, The Postulates of Practical Reason, Taste and the Aesthetic Judgment; Johann Gottlieb Fichte; The Vocation of Man, Book III; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Introduction to the Philosophy of History; Logic (Part 1 of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences), Chapter 7, A; Supplementary Passages - Philosophy and the Actual World, Dialetic, Spirit, Art, Religion; Arthur Schopenhauer; The World as Will and Idea (abridged); Auguste Comte; A General View of Postivism, Chapters I and VI (abridged); Ernst Mach; The Analysis of Sensations and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical, Chapters I and XV; Friedrich Nietzsche; Beyond Good and Evil (abridged); Supplementary Passages - The Will to Power; Eternal Recurrence; The Superman; Good and Evil; Christianity; Conscience; Art.