British Empirical Philosophers. Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid and J.S. Mill.

First edition. 8vo. 560 pp. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (heavy foxing to edges with some further minor spotting to edges of text block, contents otherwise generally clean and unmarked; small amount of faint spotting to jacket, light wear and few tiny nicks to extremities, withal a very good copy overall). London, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.

A collection bringing together abridgements and extracts from some of the foundational texts of British empiricism, edited with an introductory essay by A.J. Ayer, including: an entirely new abridgement of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge and extracts from the Dialogues; extracts from Hume's Treatise and Enquiry, Reid's Essay on the Intellectual Powers of Man, and Mill’s Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.

'The reason for bringing [these] together is that they all deal with the same type of philosophical question, that they approach these questions from the same general standpoint, and that the various answers which they give to them reflect upon one another' (from Ayer’s introduction) 

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