An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in Four Books
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940019971008 (0019971001)
Edition language: English
This treatise published in 1689 was listed in Good Reading's "100 Significant Books." It's a work of epistemology--the branch of philosophy that examines knowledge. Rejecting Descartes' argument of innate principles, Locke argues that humans at birth are a blank slate written on by experience. Loc...
Locke’s Essay is considered a foundational work for the new empiricism which arose out of the friction between Descartes with his rationalist followers and the old-school Aristotelian empiricists of the Scholastics. In true empiricist form, Locke binds himself to the proposition that all knowledge ...
GAH!Okay, I like philosophy, but everything has limits!I had to read this book for an assignment I have, and well, it was...weird?John Locke kept on saying something and after some pages going all against to what he previously said.His opinions?I don't know if I agree, I was too absorbed trying to m...
11 years ago
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