Problems from Locke
by J. L. Mackie · first published 1976
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…excerpts or with a guide, and also some more obvious things that almost everyone with a college education has read, like Descartes' Meditations or Plato's Republic. On Fate, Alexander of Aphrodisias + Problems from Locke, Mackie Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Spinoza + The Courtier and the Heretic, Stewart (on Spinoza and Leibniz) Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals,…
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗…pointless without also reading the originals. (It's a bit like reading a review of a meal, rather than eating any of it.) That said, the quality of secondary works varies a lot. Some things, like Mackie's Problems from Locke, are now primary sources in their own right, albeit in a secondary way.
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