AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. By John Locke. Abridged and Edited by A. S. Pringle-Pattison.

Published by At The Clarendon Press., Oxford, 1924

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FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. xlviii + 380 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped dust wrapper which has sunned spine, neat edge repairs and some calculations in ink on inside front flap. Rough cut edges. Some wear to corners and sunned spine, but otherwise a good copy. Signature on first free endpaper, comment on last free endpaper and occasional margin comment, all in blue ink. John Locke (1632-1704) was an influential English philosopher, who published some of his most important works, such as his treatises of government and letters on toleration, in the period immediately before and after the English revolution of 1688-89. His political philosophy with its support for liberalism and advocacy of social contract theory, influenced the French philosophers and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and above all, the American revolutionaries. His theory of mind, maintaining that we are born without innate ideas and that knowledge is determined by experience, deriving from sense perception, was equally significant and may be regarded as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self. An abridged edition of his famous Essay Concerning Human Understanding. which was was first published in 1689/90, by Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856-1931), Scottish academic philosopher who was based at several different universities in the course of his career. PHILOSOPHY PSYCHOLOGY PHILOSOPHY 17TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY. …

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Title
AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. By John Locke. Abridged and Edited by A. S. Pringle-Pattison.
Author
LOCKE, JOHN. PRINGLE-PATTISON, A. S., edited by.
Publisher
At The Clarendon Press., Oxford
Publication year
1924
Condition
ESTC T147107

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