philosophy (1500-1699)

A LETTER CONCERNING TOLERATION, by John Locke

A THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE, Baruch Spinoza

AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, by John Locke

CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT, by John Locke

DISCOURSE, by Rene Descartes

ESSAYS, by Michel de Montaigne

LEVIATHAN, by Thomas Hobbes

PENSEES, by Blaise Pascal

POLITICAL TREATISE, by Benedict de Spinoza

THE ESSAYS, by Francis Bacon

THE ETHICS, by Baruch Spinoza

THE PRINCE, by Nicolo Machiavelli

THE PROVINCIAL LETTERS, by Blaise Pascal

SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT, by John Locke

Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes