NOW BEING ISSUED. Philosophical Classics FOR English Readers. EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews. In crown 8vo, cloth boards, with Portraits, price 3s. 6d. each. THE HE success which attended the experiment of introducing the Greek and Roman Classics to English readers, confirmed the Publishers in their original intention of undertaking a similar series, devoted to Foreign European Classics. In now announcing the extension of their scheme to another Series, dealing with the chief Philosophical writers of modern Europe, from Bacon and Descartes onwards, the Publishers feel certain that they are filling up a blank in popular literature. A growing interest in Philosophy, arising out of the diffusion of Learning and the progress of Science, is one of the marked features of the present age. The aim of this Third Series will be to tell the general reader-who cannot possibly peruse the entire works of the Philosophers who the founders of the chief systems were, and how they dealt with the great questions of the Universe; to give an outline of their lives and characters; to show how the systems were connected with the individualities of the writers, how they received the problem of Philosophy from their predecessors, with what additions they handed it on to their successors, and what they thus contributed to the increasing purpose of the world's thought and its organic development; as well as to illustrate the questions that engrossed them in the light of contemporary discussion. The Series will thus unfold the History of Modern Philosophy under the light cast upon it by the labours of the chief system-builders. In each work it will be the aim of the writers to translate the discussion out of the dialect of the Schools, which is often too technical, and which presupposes the knowledge of a special vocabulary, into the language of ordinary life. If the philosophical achievements of such writers as Descartes, Spinoza, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Leibnitz, Butler, Berkeley, Hume, Stewart, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Cousin, Comte, and Hamilton (not to refer to other names), were thus recorded, and the discussion popularised without being diluted,—it is believed that the Series would form a useful assistance to the student of Philosophy, and be of much value to the general reader. The Series will commence with the following Volumes, which will be published at short intervals :— HAMILTON BACON HEGEL HOBBES KANT By Professor MAHAFFY, Dublin. By Rev. CANON COLLINS, M.A. By Professor FRASER, Edinburgh. By Professor ADAMSON, Owen's College, Manchester. By the EDITOR. By Professor VEITCH, Glasgow. By Professor NICHOL, Glasgow. By Professor Edward Caird, Glasgow. By Professor CROOM ROBERTSON, London. By WILLIAM WALLACE, Merton College, Oxford. SPINOZA. By Dr MARTINEAU, Principal of Manchester New College. VICO By Professor FLINT, Edinburgh. Other Volumes, including LOCKE, Leibnitz, COMTE, &c., will follow. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. Philosophical Classics for English Readers EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D. PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS DESCARTES |