An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By Locke, John

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Title:	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Author:	Locke, John
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Excerpt
Excerpt: 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.

Table of Contents
Contents AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (1690) ......................................................................... 6 EPISTLE TO THE READER .......................................................................................................................................... 9 INTRODUCTION:....................................................................................................................................................... 22 BOOK I Neither Principles nor Ideas Are Innate ..................................................................................................... 27 Chapter I No Innate Speculative Principles ...................................................................................................................... 27 Chapter II No Innate Practical Principles ......................................................................................................................... 46 Chapter III Other considerations concerning Innate Principles, both Speculative and Practical .......................................... 67 BOOK II Of Ideas ...................................................................................................................................................... 86 Chapter I Of Ideas in general, and their Original .............................................................................................................. 86 Chapter II Of Simple Ideas .......................................................................................................................................... 101 Chapter III Of Simple Ideas of Sense ............................................................................................................................ 103 Chapter IV Idea of Solidity .......................................................................................................................................... 105 Chapter V Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses ................................................................................................................ 109 Chapter VI Of Simple Ideas of Reflection ..................................................................................................................... 110 Chapter VII Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection ...................................................................................... 110 Chapter VIII Some further considerations concerning our Simple Ideas of Sensation ...................................................... 114 Chapter IX Of Perception ............................................................................................................................................ 126 Chapter X Of Retention ............................................................................................................................................... 132 Chapter XI Of Discerning, and other operations of the Mind .......................................................................................... 138 Chapter XII Of Complex Ideas .................................................................................................................................... 146 Chapter XIII Complex Ideas of Simple Modes:?and First, of the Simple Modes of the Idea of Space .......................... 150 Chapter XIV Idea of Duration and its Simple Modes ..................................................................................................... 165 Chapter XV Ideas of Duration and Expansion, considered together ............................................................................... 181 Chapter XVI Idea of Number ...................................................................................................................................... 189