John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
02/09/2019
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a 1689 work by John Locke setting out a new theory of knowledge influenced by contemporary scientific developments. In Book 1 of the essay, Locke strongly attacked Cartesian rationalism and its doctrine that the human mind has access to innate ideas. In Book 2 he posited that the mind was like a white sheet of paper (often paraphrased as a 'blank slate'), with its only source of knowledge being experience.
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Chinese University of Hong Kong: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Framed HTML format.
Early Modern Texts: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), adapted and translated into modern English, by Jonathan Bennett. PDF format.
Gutenberg: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 | Volume 2. Multiple formats.
Internet Archive: An Essay concerning Human Understanding, edited by Alexander Campbell Fraser. Multiple formats.
Internet Archive: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, with other works by Locke, Berkeley and Hume. (Great Books of the Western World edition, 1937). Multiple formats.
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