Western philosophy from c 1800

This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest to the version Pascal left behind on his death in 1662...

Contents:Translator's Introduction Selected Bibliography Note on the TextThe Vocation of ManPreface Book One: Doubt Book Two: Knowledge Book Three: Faith

This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translation includesEllington's new translation of Kant's essay "Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because ofPhilanthropic Concerns" in which Kant replies to one of the standard objectionsto his moral theory...

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XVI unleashed a reign of terror against...