An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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816 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2004
Summary
John Locke’s compelling argument on how we acquire knowledge
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434828 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140434828 |
| Author: | John Locke, Roger Woolhouse |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 598g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 47mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
John Locke
John Locke (1632-1704) was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and held various academic posts at that university, lecturing on Greek and rhetoric. However, his interests lay in medicine and the new experimental sciences and in 1667 he became personal physician to the Earl of Shaftesbury. Under the influence of Shaftesbury, Locke developed his ideas on politics, property, trade, monarchy and the mind. Shaftesbury became a bitter opponent of Charles II and was involved in the plot of 1683. This forced Locke to flee in exile to Holland, but he returned after 1688 and began to publish his most famous works. He wrote also on tehology, education, and in defence of religous tolerance, while founding the analytic philosophy of the mind.
Roger Woolhouse is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He has also edited George Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous for Penguin Classics.
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