Free Downloads An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Hackett Classics)
Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.
Series: Hackett Classics
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.; Abridged edition (September 15, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 087220216X
ISBN-13: 978-0872202160
Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.5 x 8.8 inches
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Locke has a very materialistic view of the world stating that we do not possess innate ideas at birth. Personally, I think it we are born with some innate ideas and those ideas can only be expressed once we accumulate some experience.
This book is where John Locke laid down his "Tabula Rasa" and this ideology has carried on through centuries (and even up to today for those who aren't educated enough to know he's actually been proven wrong. In fact most modern philosophers have been proven wrong on most of the things they wrote). Nonetheless, this is a great book and an interesting read. There are four "books" within this book and each chapter has a lot of rich information. It's a very dense text with Locke covering a lot throughout. This is (arguably) one of the top influential philosophical texts that has been written and it's studied in modern philosophy courses at my university. I would recommend this book to anyone that's a novice to philosophy.
Those little Hackett paperbacks are a great bargain. That's why my Philosophy teacher has the class buy all of their books this way. We had to buy four little books for the class, and why pay a lot for each one? This arrived quickly and in perfect condition.
It was fine
great for my college course and fast shipping
The book looks like new and has good notes. And it is very cheap. I think it is better than the new one.
The boos is a great synthesis of Locke`s book. Not just as a synthesis, it is still complete and the author wrote it in more understandable words than the pridinal, so it`s easier to read and understand Locke`s ideas, which are aplicable to nowadays
Mr locke lived a very long time ago and is dead. Thomas Jefferson used to be president of the United States said Mr Locke was a very smart man. I think this is a very long essay. I'm bettin' Mr. Jefferson didn't read the whole thing in one sittin'.. the end... I am an old electrician and not a philosopher; I am in no way qualified to review or offer worthy commentary on Mr. Locke's work.
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