Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Name: Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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ISBN: 9780199296620

ISBN-10: 0199296626

ISBN-13: 9780199296620

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Locke, Pauline Phemister

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John Locke's classic work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding laid the foundation of British empiricism and remains of enduring interest today. Rejecting doctrines of innate principles and ideas, Locke shows how all our ideas, even the most abstract and complex, are grounded in human experience--attained by sensation of external things or reflection upon our mental activities. A thorough examination of the communication of ideas through language and the convention of taking words as signs of ideas paves the way for his penetrating critique of the limitations of ideas and the extent of our knowledge of ourselves, the world, God and morals. This abridgement, based on P.H. Nidditch's…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction


Locke's Life and Writing


The Essay concerning Human Understanding


Books I and II: Ideas and Principles


Book III: Language and Abstraction


Book IV: Knowledge


Reception and Legacy


Note on the Text


Select Bibliography


A Chronology of John Locke


An Essay Concerning Human Understanding



Extracts from Locke's Letters to Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester


Explanatory Notes


Index