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Title: The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics

Author: Various

Editor: Arthur Mee
John Alexander Hammerton

Release Date: April 6, 2008 [EBook #25009]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Plato]

THE WORLD'S
GREATEST
BOOKS

JOINT EDITORS

ARTHUR MEE
Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge

J. A. HAMMERTON
Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia

VOL. XIV

PHILOSOPHY
(CONTINUED)

ECONOMICS

WM. H. WISE & CO.

_Table of Contents_

PORTRAIT OF PLATO _Frontispiece_

PHILOSOPHY (_continued_)

HEGEL, G.W.F. PAGE
The Philosophy of History 1

HUME, DAVID
Essays, Moral and Political 13

KANT, IMMANUEL
The Critique of Pure Reason 24
The Critique of Practical Reason 34

LEWES, GEORGE HENRY
A History of Philosophy 45

LOCKE, JOHN
Concerning the Human Understanding 56

MONTAIGNE
Essays 64

PLATO
The Apology, or Defence of Socrates 75
The Republic 84

SCHOPENHAUER
The World as Will and Idea 99

SENECA, L. ANNAEUS
On Benefits 109

SPENCER, HERBERT
Education 120
Principles of Biology 133
Principles of Sociology 145

SPINOZA, BENEDICT DE
Ethics 160

ECONOMICS

BELLAMY, EDWARD
Looking Backward 173

BENTHAM, JEREMY
Principles of Morals and Legislation 186

BLOCH, JEAN
The Future of War 199

BURKE, EDMUND