Books in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series

This newly expanded second edition contains excerpts from Newton's earliest optical writings, some of his unpublished reflections on the interpretation of Scriptural passages, and his correspondence with important figures in his day. Known now primarily as a scientist, Newton developed important philosophical views that were hugely influential in his era.

This newly expanded second edition contains excerpts from Newton's earliest optical writings, some of his unpublished reflections on the interpretation of Scriptural passages, and his correspondence with important figures in his day. Known now primarily as a scientist, Newton developed important philosophical views that were hugely influential in his era.

The Critique of Practical Reason is one of Kant's major works on moral theory, a seminal text in the history of ethics, and an important part of Kant's philosophical system. This edition is the authoritative translation, with a lucid critical introduction that provides a reader's guide to the work.

The Critique of Practical Reason is one of Kant's major works on moral theory, a seminal text in the history of ethics, and an important part of Kant's philosophical system. This edition is the authoritative translation, with a lucid critical introduction that provides a reader's guide to the work.

Plato's Theaetetus and Sophist are two of his most important dialogues and are widely discussed by philosophers. With a supporting introduction and notes, this new and lively translation is the first to present both dialogues together and will pave the way for fresh interpretations of Plato's writings in general.

Plato's Theaetetus and Sophist are two of his most important dialogues and are widely discussed by philosophers. With a supporting introduction and notes, this new and lively translation is the first to present both dialogues together and will pave the way for fresh interpretations of Plato's writings in general.

This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's acclaimed 1996 translation, including an updated introduction, a substantially revised bibliography and specially selected extracts from the Objections and Replies. It will be a vital resource for students reading the Meditations, as well as those studying Descartes and early modern philosophy.

This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's acclaimed 1996 translation, including an updated introduction, a substantially revised bibliography and specially selected extracts from the Objections and Replies. It will be a vital resource for students reading the Meditations, as well as those studying Descartes and early modern philosophy.

Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most historically and philosophically significant texts of the early modern period. This new translation is based on a new critical edition, and the volume also offers an introduction, chronology and glossary to make this notoriously difficult text accessible to students.

Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most historically and philosophically significant texts of the early modern period. This new translation is based on a new critical edition, and the volume also offers an introduction, chronology and glossary to make this notoriously difficult text accessible to students.

This volume offers, for the first time, accurate translations of a selection of writings from Nietzsche's late notebooks, dating from his last productive years between 1885 and 1889. Many have never before been published in English. This volume will be widely welcomed by all those working in Nietzsche studies.

The founding text of modern hermeneutics. Written by the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher as a method for the interpretation and textual criticism of the New Testament, it develops ideas about language and the interpretation of texts that are in many respects still unsurpassed and are becoming current in the contemporary philosophy of language. Contrary to the traditional view of Schleiermacher as a theorist of empathetic interpretation, in this text he offers a view of understanding that acknowledges both the structurally and historically determined aspects of language and the need to take account of the activity of the individual subject in the constitution of meaning. This volume offers the text in a new translation by Andrew Bowie, together with related writings on secular hermeneutics and on language, and an introduction that places the texts in the context of Schleiermacher's philosophy as a whole.

A classic of modern religious thought, Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is here presented in Richard Crouter's acclaimed English translation of the 1799 edition, originally published in Cambridge Texts in German Philosophy. Written when its youthful author was deeply involved in German Romanticism and the critique of Kant's moral and religious philosophy, it is a masterly expression of Protestant Christian apologetics of the modern period, which powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. Unlike the revised versions of 1806 and 1821, which modify the language of feeling and intuition and translate the argument into more traditional academic and Christian categories, the 1799 text more fully reveals its original audience's literary and social world. Richard Crouter's introduction places the work in the milieu of early German Romanticism, Kant criticism, the revival of Spinoza and Plato studies, and theories of literary criticism and of the physical sciences, and his fully annotated edition also includes a chronology and notes on further reading.