Esteemed for providing the best available translations,Philosophic Classics: Modern Philosophy,features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers.

First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision ofPhilosophic Classicscontinues the tradition of providing generations of students with high quality course material. Using the complete works, or where appropriate, complete sections of works, this anthology allows philosophers to speak directly to students.  

Francis Bacon

Aphorisms Concerning the Interpretation of Nature and the Kingdom of Man (selections).

René Descartes

Meditations on the First PhilosophyCorrespondence with Princess Elizabeth (selections)

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan (Part I Chapters 1-3, 6, 9, 12-15, Part II, Chapters, 17-18, 21)

Blaise Pascal

Penseés (selections).

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics (First Part and Second Part).

Nicolas Malebranche
    The Search after Truth (Book IV, Part II, Chapter 3)

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (abridged)An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government (Second Essay) (in part)

Gottfried Leibniz

Discourse on MetaphysicsTheodicy (Leibniz' abridgement)The Monadology

George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

William Paley

Natural Theology (Chapters 1-3)

David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

Thomas Reid

Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (Essay I, Chapter 14 and part of 15)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract (Book I)

Immanuel Kant

Critique of Pure Reason (in part)Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsFoundation for the Metaphysics of MoralsOn a Supposed Right to Lie