An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,9780140434828

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780140434828
ISBN10: 0140434828
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-02-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

Volume 1 of a 2-volume set of Locke's monumental work containing every word of all 4 books comprising the Essay. Marginal analyses of almost every paragraph, plus hundreds of explanatory footnotes.

Author Biography

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 ethology, education, and in defense of religious tolerance, while founding the analytic philosophy of the mind.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix(16)
Further Reading xxv(1)
Bibliographical Abbreviations xxvi(1)
A Note on the Text xxvii
Title-page of the Fifth Edition 1(2)
AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING 3(52)
The Epistle Dedicatory 3(4)
The Epistle to the Reader 7(10)
The Contents 17(38)
BOOK I: OF INNATE NOTIONS 55(54)
I Introduction
55(4)
II No Innate Principles in the Mind
59(15)
III No Innate Practical Principles
74(17)
IV Other Considerations concerning Innate Principles, both Speculative and Practical
91(18)
BOOK II: OF IDEAS 109(252)
I Of Ideas in General, and their Original
109(12)
II Of Simple Ideas
121(2)
III Of Ideas of One Sense
123(1)
IV Of Solidity
124(4)
V Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses
128(1)
VI Of Simple Ideas of Reflection
128(1)
VII Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection
129(4)
VIII Some further Considerations concerning our Simple Ideas
133(9)
IX Of Perception
142(5)
X Of Retention
147(5)
XI Of Discerning, and other Operations of the Mind
152(7)
XII Of Complex Ideas
159(3)
XIII Of Simple Modes; and first, of the Simple Modes of Space
162(12)
XIV Of Duration, and its Simple Modes
174(13)
XV Of Duration and Expansion, considered together
187(8)
XVI Of Number
195(4)
XVII Of Infinity
199(12)
XVIII Of other Simple Modes
211(2)
XIX Of the Modes of Thinking
213(3)
XX Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain
216(4)
XXI Of Power
220(42)
XXII Of Mixed Modes
262(6)
XXIII Of our Complex Ideas of Substances
268(19)
XXIV Of Collective Ideas of Substances
287(1)
XXV Of Relation
288(4)
XXVI Of Cause and Effect, and other Relations
292(4)
XXVII Of Identity and Diversity
296(18)
XXVIII Of other Relations
314(12)
XXIX Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas
326(8)
XXX Of Real and Fantastical Ideas
334(2)
XXXI Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas
336(9)
XXXII Of True and False Ideas
345(9)
XXXIII Of the Association of Ideas
354(7)
BOOK III: OF WORDS 361(106)
I Of Words or Language in General
361(2)
II Of the Signification of Words
363(4)
III Of General Terms
367(10)
IV Of the Names of Simple Ideas
377(7)
V Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations
384(8)
VI Of the Names of Substances
392(28)
VII Of Particles
420(2)
VIII Of Abstract and Concrete Terms
422(2)
IX Of the Imperfection of Words
424(13)
X Of the Abuse of Words
437(16)
XI Of the Remedies of the Foregoing Imperfections and Abuses
453(14)
BOOK IV: OF KNOWLEDGE AND OPINION 467(169)
I Of Knowledge in General
467(4)
II Of the Degrees of our Knowledge
471(7)
III Of the Extent of Human Knowledge
478(20)
IV Of the Reality of Knowledge
498(10)
V Of Truth in General
508(5)
VI Of Universal Propositions, their Truth and Certainty
513(10)
VII Of Maxims
523(15)
VIII Of Trifling Propositions
538(8)
IX Of our Knowledge of Existence
546(1)
X Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a GOD
547(10)
XI Of our Knowledge of the Existence of other Things
557(7)
XII Of the Improvement of our Knowledge
564(10)
XIII Some further Considerations concerning our Knowledge
574(2)
XIV Of Judgement
576(1)
XV Of Probability
577(3)
XVI Of the Degrees of Assent
580(10)
XVII Of Reason
590(17)
XVIII Of Faith and Reason, and their Distinct Provinces
607(7)
XIX Of Enthusiasm
614(9)
XX Of Wrong Assent, or Error
623(11)
XXI Of the Division of the Sciences
634(2)
APPENDIX: John Locke's Debate with Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, as it figures in footnotes in the Fifth Edition of the Essay 636(90)
Index to the Fifth Edition 726(23)
Notes 749

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