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• Early works to 1800

• Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800
• Atheism -- Early works to 1800
• Definition (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800
• Good and evil -- Early works to 1800
• Immaterialism (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800
• Immortality (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800
• Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800
• Logic -- Early works to 1800
• Materialism -- Early works to 1800
• Mechanism (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800
• Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800
• Methodology -- Early works to 1800
• Monadology -- Early works to 1800
• Neoplatonism -- Early works to 1800
• Ontology -- Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Medieval -- Early works to 1800
• Scholasticism -- Early works to 1800
• Space and time -- Early works to 1800
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• Opera Omnia (6 volumes in Latin; Florence: Typ. Regiae Celsitudinis, 1727), by Pierre Gassendi, ed. by Nicolò Averani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophie de l'Univers (second edition, in French: Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Du Pont, ca. 1796), by Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
  • multiple formats at Google
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• Triennium Philosophicum quod P. Andreas Semery Remus è Societate Iesu in Collegio Romano Philosophiae Iterum Professor Dictabat (second edition, 3 volumes in Latin; 2 volumes published Rome: F. Caesaretti, 1682), by Andreas Semery
  • Volume 1 (Annus Primus): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (Annus Secundus, from a similar 1690 Venetian imprint): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3 (Annus Tertius): multiple formats at Google
• The Philosophical and Physical Opinions Written by Her Excellency the Lady Marchionesse of Newcastle (London: Printed for J. Martin and J. Allestrye, 1655), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections Upon Some Opinions in Natural Philosophy (London, 1664), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Voyage to the World of Cartesius: Written Originally in French, and Now Translated Into English (London: T. Bennet, 1692), by Gabriel Daniel, trans. by Thomas Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations (sixth edition; London: Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, 1834), by David Hartley (page images at Google)
• Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, by Marcus Aurelius, trans. by Meric Casaubon, contrib. by W. H. D. Rouse (Gutenberg text)
• The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, by Marcus Aurelius, trans. by George Long (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1898), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, trans. by Robert Latta
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Six Enneads, by Plotinus, trans. by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page (text at Georgetown)
• Symposium, by Xenophon
  • HTML with commentary at Perseus
  • Gutenberg text
• Disquisitions on Several Subjects (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782), by Soame Jenyns
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Aristotle on Youth and Old Age, Life and Death and Respiration (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897), by Aristotle, trans. by William Ogle
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• M. Tulli Ciceronis Academica: The Text Revised and Explained (text in Latin, commentary in English; London: Macmillan and Co., 1885), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by James S. Reid
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing, by Aristotle, trans. by G. R. T. Ross (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Selected Essays of Seneca, and the Satire on the Deification of Claudius (Latin texts and English notes; New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, ed. by Allan Perley Ball (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated; With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (3 volumes; London: T. Tegg, 1845), by Ralph Cudworth, trans. by John Harrison, contrib. by Johann Lorenz Mosheim
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google

• Posterior Analytics, by Aristotle, trans. by G. R. G. Mure (HTML at Internet Classics)

• Sancti Aureli Augustini Contra Academicos Libri Tres; De Beata Vita Liber Unus; De Ordine Libri Duo (in Latin; Vienna and Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky A. G., 1922), by Saint Augustine of Hippo, ed. by Pius Knöll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (4th edition), by George Berkeley (HTML at York)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1732 and 1709 editions), by George Berkeley (multiple formats in Ireland)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, by George Berkeley (Gutenberg text)
• The Theory of Vision, Vindicated and Explained (Cambridge and London: Macmillan, 1860), by George Berkeley, ed. by H. V. H. Cowell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Phaedo, by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)
• Phaedo, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Des Dominicus Gundissalinus Schrift Von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele (with William of Auvergne's De Immortalitate Animae; in Latin with German commentary; Münster: Aschendorff, 1897), by Dominicus Gundissalinus, ed. by Georg Bülow, contrib. by William of Auvergne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• An Answer to Remarks Upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (1697), by John Locke (PDF at McMaster)
• Illuminati Sacre Pagine Professoris Amplissimi Magistri Raymundi Lull, Ars Magna, Generalis Et Ultima: Quarumcunque Artium et Scientiarum Ipsius Lull, Assecutrix Et Clauigera, et ad Eas Aditum Faciliore Prebens, Antehac Nusquam Arti Impressorie Emunctius Commendata (title from illuminated page about 12 leaves in; in Latin; Lyon: J. Marechal, 1517), by Ramon Llull, ed. by Bernardus de Lavinheta
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Logical Tracts: Comprising Observations and Essays Illustrative of Mr. Locke's Treatise Upon the Human Understanding (1790), by Thomas Ludlam (PDF at McMaster)
• Notes and Annotations on Locke on The Human Understanding (1794), by Thomas Morell (PDF at McMaster)
• Remarks Upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, in a Letter Address'd to the Author (London: Printed for M. Wotton, 1697), by Thomas Burnet (PDF at McMaster)
• Second Remarks Upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (London: Printed for M. Wotton, 1697), by Thomas Burnet (PDF at McMaster)
• Third Remarks Upon An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (London: Printed for M. Wotton, 1697), by Thomas Burnet (PDF at McMaster)
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (6th edition), by John Locke (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke (HTML at McMaster)
• M. Tulli Ciceronis Academica: The Text Revised and Explained (text in Latin, commentary in English; London: Macmillan and Co., 1885), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by James S. Reid
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech and William Aldis Wright (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Advancement of Learning (London: Cassell, 1893), by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)
• Charmides, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Charmides, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
• Cursory Reflections on a Book Call'd, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690; some introductory pages missing), by John Norris (PDF at McMaster)
• Posterior Analytics, by Aristotle, trans. by G. R. G. Mure (HTML at Internet Classics)

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