Historians and Philosophers : A collated web index : Modern Period, Part 1 (1751

A collated web index of significant
Historians and Philosophers
Modern Period, Part 1 (1751 - 1900)

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NOTE: Deceased philosophers and historians are listed chronologically by year of death, whereas living individuals are listed by year of birth.

George Berkeley (1685-1753)
Irish philosopher

The Querist (text at McMaster)
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (HTML at utm.edu)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
- text at vt.edu
- HTML at utm.edu

Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755)
French aristocrat and philosopher

(no links at present)

Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771)
French philosopher

Helvétius biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

David Hume (1711-1776)
Scottish philosopher and historian

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (text at Wiretap)
Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul (text at utm.edu)
A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh (text at utm.edu)
The Natural History of Religion (text at utm.edu)
Hume, David: Selected Works and Commentary. (HTML Hume Archives)
The Hume Archives (HTML at utm.edu)
Hume biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Voltaire (François Marie Arounet) (1694-1778)
French author and philosopher

Candide (text at vt.edu)
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (1924 edition of selected entries) (HTML at Hanover)
Voltaire biography (HTML at Lucidcafe)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Swiss/French philosopher

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (text at vt.edu)
Rousseau biography (HTML at Lucidcafe)

Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Scottish economist and philosopher

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- text files at McMaster
- text at vt.edu
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (text files at McMaster)
Smith biography (HTML at Lucidcafe)
Smith biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Richard Price (1723-1791)
Scottish moral philosopher

Price biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Thomas Reid (1710-1796)
Scottish astronomer, clergyman and philosopher

(no links at present)

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
British statesman and political philosopher

Reflections on the Revolution in France (text at liu.se)

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
German philosopher

Über Pädagogik (On Pedagogics, 1803). (HTML at uni-bremen.de, 160 KB)
On Comprehension and Transcendental Consciousness: "Beantwortung der Frage: Ist es eine Erfahrung, daß wir denken?" (HTML at uni-bremen.de)
On the Nature of Physical Bodies: "Vorrede" to "Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft" (HTML at uni-bremen.de, 64 KB)
The Critique of Judgement (text at vt.edu)
The Critique of Practical Reason (text at vt.edu)
The Critique of Pure Reason (text at vt.edu)
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (text at vt.edu)
The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right
- text files at vt.edu
- text files at liu.se
Kant biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
American philosopher and statesman

The Age of Reason (HTML at Secular Web)
Letters concerning "The Age of Reason" (HTML at Secular Web)
Rights of Man (HTML at Secular Web)
Examination of the Prophecies (HTML at Secular Web)
The Existence of God (HTML at Secular Web)
Worship and Church Bells (HTML at Secular Web)
Answer to Bishop Llandaff (HTML at Secular Web)
Origin of Free-Masonry (HTML at Secular Web)
Predestination (HTML at Secular Web)
Prospect Papers (HTML at Secular Web)
An Essay on Dream (HTML at Secular Web)
Letter to Andrew Dean (HTML at Secular Web)
Collected works of Paine, plus commentary (HTML at Secular Web)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)
German philosopher, father of Immanuel Hermann Fichte (q.v.)

Fichte biography (HTML at utm.edu)

David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Economic philosopher

Principles of Political Economy (text at McMaster)
Essay on Profits (text at McMaster)
The High Price of Bullion (text at McMaster)

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
U.S. political philosopher; 3rd President of the U.S.A. (1801-1809)

Autobiography (text at vt.edu)
Declaration of Independence (HTML at Michigan)
Notes on the State of Virginia (text at vt.edu)
Jefferson, Thomas: Selected writings. (vt.edu Gopher collection)
A Summary View of the Rights of British America (text at vt.edu)
Jefferson biography (HTML at Grolier)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
German philosopher

Hegel biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
British philosopher

Defence of Usury (text at McMaster)
Principles of Morals and Legislation (chapters 1-4) (HTML at utm.edu)
Bentham biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

James Mill (1773-1836)
Scottish historian, economist and philosopher, father of John Stuart Mill (q.v.)

Mill biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

William Hamilton (1788-1856)
Scottish historian, logician, and philosopher

(no links at present)

Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
French philosopher

Discussion of Comte in intellectual history (HTML at pagesz.net)

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Polish philosopher

Schopenhauer biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)
Schopenhauer biography (HTML at sci.fi)

James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864)
Scottish philosopher and historian

Ferrier biography (HTML at utm.edu)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
British philosopher, son of James Mill (q.v.)

Autobiography (text at McMaster)
On Liberty (text at Wiretap)
Principles of Political Economy (text files at McMaster)
Representative Government (text at vt.edu)
The Subjection of Women (text at Wiretap)
Utilitarianism (text at vt.edu)
Mill biography (HTML at utm.edu)
Mill biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1797-1879)
German philosopher, and son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (q.v.)

Fichte biography (HTML at utm.edu)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)
German economic/political philosopher

The Civil War in France (text files at Colorado)
The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 (HTML at Colorado)
The Communist Manifesto
- HTML at Colorado
- text at Wiretap
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (HTML at Colorado)
Value, Price and Profit (HTML at Colorado)
Wage-Labor and Capital (text files at Colorado)
Marx biography (HTML at Lucidcafe)
Marx biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)

Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883)
British historian

Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England (text at McMaster)

Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-1884)
German historian

(no links at present)

Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886)
German historian and historical theorist

von Ranke biography (HTML at ku.dk)

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)
British philosopher, mathematician, logician, clergyman and author

(no links at present)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German philosopher

Thus Spake Zarathustra (text at vt.edu)
Nietzsche biography (HTML at sfsu.edu)
Nietzsche page (HTML at usc.edu)

Updated: July 24, 2005