THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY
by
Bertrand Russell
1912
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The student who wishes to acquire an elementary knowledge of philosophy will find it both easier and more profitable to read some of the works of the great philosophers than to attempt to derive an all-round view from handbooks. The following are specially recommended:
PLATO: Republic,
especially Books VI and VII. Translated by
Davies and
Vaughan. Golden Treasure
Series.
DESCARTES:
Meditations.
Translated by Haldane and
Ross. Cambridge University
Press, 1911.
SPINOZA:
Ethics.
Translated by Hale White and
Amelia Stirling.
LEIBNIZ:
The Monadology. Translated by
R. Latta. Oxford, 1898.
BERKELEY:
Three
Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.
HUME:
Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.
KANT:
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics.
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