The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion

The rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy's most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical--and fatal--conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke's Essay, Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume's Treatise strangled it with its own cinctures after a period of Berkeley's optimistic idealism. The Empiricists collects the key writings on this important philosophy, perfect for those interested in learning about this movement with just one book.

• The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology & Discourse on Metaphysics
• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772 (Hackett Classics)
• The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)
• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
• Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.
• Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
• Basic Writings of Existentialism (Modern Library Classics)
• Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
• Meditations, Objections, and Replies (Hackett Classics)
• Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle (Readings in the History of Philosophy)