An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke was one of the most famous philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment. Locke is often referred to as The Father of Liberalism and his writings influenced other great philosophers including Voltaire and Rousseau. This edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding includes a...
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John Locke was one of the most famous philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment. Locke is often referred to as The Father of Liberalism and his writings influenced other great philosophers including Voltaire and Rousseau. This edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding includes a table of contents.
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781531258474
ASIN: B01D92PGB8
Publish date: 2016-03-21
Publisher: Kypros Press
Pages no: 678
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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