Classics of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern and Contemporary covers the works of philosophers from Descartes to Rawls. Ideal for courses in modern and contemporary philosophy, it includes forty-eight extensive selections--seventeen of them complete--from twenty-nine philosophers. This collection offers an unrivaled introduction to the major works of these periods. A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers. Also look for Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval, which covers the works of philosophers from Thales to William of Ockham. In addition, there is a single-volume edition available that combines Volume I and Volume II, providing the most comprehensive anthology of writings in western philosophy in print.

Preface Part III: The Modern Period 15. Rene Descartes 16. Thomas Hobbes 17. Blaise Pascal 18. Baruch Spinoza 19. Gottfried WIlhelm Leinbniz 20. John Locke 21. George Berkeley 22. William Paley 23. David Hume 24. Immanuel Kant 25. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 26. Arthur Schopenhauer 27. Soren Kierkegaard 28. John Stuart Mill 29. Karl Marx 30. Friedrich Nietzsche Part IV: The Contemporary Period 31. W. K. Clifford 32. Charles S. Pierce 33. William James 34. Bertrand Russell 35. G. E. Moore 36. Ludwig Wittgenstein 37. Edmund Husserl 38. Martin Heidegger 39. Jean Paul Sartre 40. A. J. Ayer 41. W. V. O. Quine 42. Nelson Goodman 43. John Rawls