{"product_id":"the-english-philosophers-from-bacon-to-mill-edwin-a-burtt-editor","title":"The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill * Edwin A. Burtt (Editor)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive historical anthology gathers the foundational primary texts of British intellectual history, tracing the evolution of rational thought, political liberty, and scientific skepticism through the complete writings of seven monumental thinkers who reshaped modern civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Story: Compiled and masterfully edited by prominent American philosopher and Cornell University professor Edwin Arthur Burtt, this landmark 1939 first edition transforms deep intellectual history into a highly organized, research-first reading workspace. Published under Random House’s prestigious Modern Library Giants series, the anthology completely avoids the fragmented, heavily summarized excerpts common in general history surveys. Instead, Burtt establishes an uncompromising text-first ledger that preserves entire treatises, essays, and constitutional theories down to their exact original phrasing and logical parameters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuides advanced students, historians, and philosophers step-by-step through a versatile landscape of ideological tracking lines across a three-hundred-year intellectual timeline. Utilizing a sharp, comparative diagnostic toolkit to organize the volume, Burtt maps out the precise parameters of British Empiricism and Utilitarianism. The book presents the absolute foundational works of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill, including the complete text of Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Mill's Utilitarianism. Rather than treating these historic texts as passive archival files, the volume demonstrates how these radical ideas functioned as an active protective shield for emerging democratic structures, free-market economics, and scientific logic. By organizing these sprawling philosophical properties into a beautifully bound, single-volume reference tool, this historic publication constructs an invaluable library asset. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect For: Professors, graduate students, and serious scholars of political science and Western philosophy seeking an authoritative, single-volume primary source textbook; historical collectors tracking down rare, early Modern Library Giants hardcovers; and researchers analyzing the academic curation history of professor Edwin A. Burtt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 13 essays in this Modern Library edition comprise a complete survey of the golden age of English philosophy. The anthology begins in the early 17th century with Francis Bacon's comprehensive program for the total reorganization of all knowledge; it culminates, some 250 years later, with John Stuart Mill. The thinkers represented are the creators of the 20th-century world. Indebted to them is a long line of economists, sociologists \u0026amp; political leaders whose work has profoundly influenced the life \u0026amp; thought of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded are the excerpts from Francis Bacon's The Great Instauration, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals \u0026amp; Legislation \u0026amp; John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The complete texts are provided for Locke's 2nd \"Treatise of Government\", George Berkeley's \"Treatise Concerning the Principle's of Human Knowledge\", David Hume's \"Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding\" \u0026amp; \"Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion\", John Gay's \"Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality\", James Mill's \"Government\" \u0026amp; John Stuart Mill's \"Utilitarianism\" \u0026amp; \"On Liberty\". With an introduction as well as 9 biographical prefaces by Edwin A. Burtt. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst Published 1939. This Edition 1939 by Modern Library\/Random House NY\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shopper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50458006126835,"sku":"202607123589ABB","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/5722\/7507\/files\/1000015698_ed48cfc3-a96a-45eb-8930-0b351a84184d.jpg?v=1788558242","url":"https:\/\/purpleslothmedia.com\/products\/the-english-philosophers-from-bacon-to-mill-edwin-a-burtt-editor","provider":"Purple Sloth Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}