A History of Western Philosophy: Modern Philosophy

  • 2025-08-22

Part I. From the Renaissance to Hume

Chapter 1. General Characteristics

Chapter 2. The Italian Renaissance

Chapter 3. Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli

Chapter 4. Erasmus and More

Erasmus

Thomas More

Chapter 5. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Chapter 6. The Rise of Science

Chapter 7. Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Chapter 8. Hobbes’s Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Chapter 9. Descartes

René Descartes

Chapter 10. Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

Chapter 11. Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Chapter 12. Philosophical Liberalism

Chapter 13. Locke’s Theory of Knowledge

John Locke

Chapter 14. Locke’s Political Philosophy

Chapter 15. Locke’s Influence

Chapter 16. Berkeley

George Berkeley

Chapter 17. Hume

David Hume

Part II. From Rousseau to the Present Day

Chapter 18. The Romantic Movement

Chapter 19. Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Chapter 20. Kant

Immanuel Kant

Chapter 21. Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 22. Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Chapter 23. Byron

Lord Byron

Chapter 24. Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Chapter 25. Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Chapter 26. The Utilitarians

Chapter 27. Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Chapter 28. Bergson

Henri Bergson

Chapter 29. William James

William James

Chapter 30. John Dewey

John Dewey

Chapter 31. The Philosophy of Logical Analysis