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Early Modern Texts

On this site you will find versions of some classics of early modern philosophy, and a few from the 19th century, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.

The site is now (2019) operated by the text-preparer Jonathan Bennett and his Canadian team.

April 2019 - Thomas J. Feliciano – an American writer based in Istanbul - is digitizing our works into the e-book formats of .epub (e-readers, tablets, cell phones) and mobi (for Kindle). Please send comments/feedback on these versions to otaku2255@gmail.com.

We are in the process of creating audio books for selected texts.

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