An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Author | : John Locke |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1735 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
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Author | : John Locke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1735 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
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Author | : John Locke |
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Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
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Author | : John Locke |
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Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1796 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
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Author | : John Locke |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2009-08-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141956577 |
John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the history of Western thought. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Author | : John Locke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
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Author | : John Locke |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141907282 |
In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate in us, Locke argues that it derives from sense perceptions and experience, as analysed and developed by reason. While defending these central claims with vigorous common sense, Locke offers many incidental - and highly influential - reflections on space and time, meaning, free will and personal identity. The result is a powerful, pioneering work, which, together with Descartes's works, largely set the agenda for modern philosophy.
Author | : John Locke |
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Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1693 |
Genre | : Education |
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A work by John Locke about education.
Author | : Peter R. Anstey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191506257 |
Peter Anstey presents a thorough and innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy. Focusing on Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding, but also drawing extensively from his other writings and manuscript remains, Anstey argues that Locke was an advocate of the Experimental Philosophy: the new approach to natural philosophy championed by Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society who were opposed to speculative philosophy. On the question of method, Anstey shows how Locke's pessimism about the prospects for a demonstrative science of nature led him, in the Essay, to promote Francis Bacon's method of natural history, and to downplay the value of hypotheses and analogical reasoning in science. But, according to Anstey, Locke never abandoned the ideal of a demonstrative natural philosophy, for he believed that if we could discover the primary qualities of the tiny corpuscles that constitute material bodies, we could then establish a kind of corpuscular metric that would allow us a genuine science of nature. It was only after the publication of the Essay, however, that Locke came to realize that Newton's Principia provided a model for the role of demonstrative reasoning in science based on principles established upon observation, and this led him to make significant revisions to his views in the 1690s. On the content of Locke's natural philosophy, it is argued that even though Locke adhered to the Experimental Philosophy, he was not averse to speculation about the corpuscular nature of matter. Anstey takes us into new terrain and new interpretations of Locke's thought in his explorations of his mercurialist transmutational chymistry, his theory of generation by seminal principles, and his conventionalism about species.