An Essay concerning Human Understanding
$45.82
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2008
Summary
Unlocking the Mind: A Journey Through Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding
‘I must apply my self to Experience; as far as that reaches, I may have certain Knowledge, but no farther.’
In An Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. Eschewing doctrines of innate principles and ideas, Locke shows how all our ideas, even the most abstract and complex, are grounded in human experience and attained by sensation…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199296620 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199296626 |
| Author: | John Locke, Pauline Phemister |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 415g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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“Oxford World Classics offers yet another abridgment of Locke s Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Do we really need another? Yes, when it s as well done as Phemister s.”-Philosophy in Review
About The Author
John Locke
Pauline Phemister is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
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