An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Locke, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140434828 ISBN 13: 9780140434828

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1997

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A very good, clean & sound copy.

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"Oxford World Classics offers yet another abridgment of Locke s Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Do we really need another? Yes, when it s as well done as
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"Oxford World Classics offers yet another abridgment of Locke s Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Do we really need another? Yes, when it s as well done as Phemister s."-Philosophy in Review

About the Author:

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 tehology, education, and in defence of religous tolerance, while founding the analytic philosophy of the mind.

Roger Woolhouse is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He has also edited George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous for Penguin Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140434828
• ISBN 13: 9780140434828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 816
• Editor: Woolhouse Roger