An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: 1 - Softcover

Locke, John

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9791041947966

Verlag: Shs Editions, 2023

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" This Treatise, which is grown up under your lordship's eye, and has ventured into the world by your order, does now, by a natural kind of right, come to your lordship for that protection which you several years since promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader's fancy. But there being nothing more to be desired for truth than a fair unprejudiced hearing, nobody is more likely to procure me that than your lordship, who are allowed to have got so intimate an ac- quaintance with her, in her more retired recesses. Your lordship is known to have so far advanced your speculations in the most abstract and general knowledge of things, beyond the odinary reachorcom mon methods, that your allowance and approbation of the design of this Treatise will at least preserve it from being condemned without reading, and will prevail to have those parts a little weighed, which might other- wise perhaps be thought to deserve no consideration, for being some- what out of the common road. "

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John Locke, born on August 29, 1632, in Wrington, England, is a towering figure in the history of Western philosophy. Known as the "Father of Liberalism," Locke's contributions to political theory, epistemology, and education have left an indelible mark on modern thought. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, Locke initially pursued a career in medicine, but his interests soon turned to philosophy and politics. His seminal work, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1689, revolutionized the concept of knowledge by advocating empiricism and rejecting innate ideas. Locke's philosophy of mind, centered on the idea of the mind as a "tabula rasa," laid the foundation for modern psychology and cognitive science. His political writings, particularly Two Treatises of Government, championed the principles of natural rights and government by consent, influencing the development of democratic societies. Locke's ideas were pivotal during the Enlightenment, shaping the thoughts of later philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau. John Locke passed away on October 28, 1704, in High Laver, Essex, leaving a legacy that continues to resonate in the fields of Philosophy, Political Theory, and Enlightenment Studies.

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• Verlag: Shs Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9791041947966
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 878
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