French and English Philosophers: Descartes Voltaire Rousseau Hobbes: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics Vol. XXXIV (in 51 Volumes) (Five Foot Shelf of Classics 34)

Author names not noted above: J.J. Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name Harvard Classics this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature philosophy history and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926) Harvard Universitys longest-serving president. Also known as Dr. Eliots Five Foot Shelf it represented Eliots belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXXIV features great works by French and English philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries: - Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences by RENÉ DESCARTES (1596-1650) - Letters on the English by François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) aka VOLTAIRE - Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind and Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar by JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778) - Of Man Being the First Part of Leviathan by THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679)