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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1

By John Locke

2019-09-10 23:32:08

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 (although dated 1690) with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. He descri ... Read more
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 (although dated 1690) with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual words) filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy and influenced many enlightenment philosophers, such as David Hume and George Berkeley. Less

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File size502.704 KB
Print pages322
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2018-11-10
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1347156377
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John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development...

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