Charts
For authors

Loading this book…

A social home for readers and authors. Discover stories, build a community, and manage every launch from one place.

Closed beta · Free for readers

Apps for iOS and Android are on the way.

Read

Explore books
Authors
Charts

Publish

For authors
Plans & pricing
Join free

Company

Help center
Community guidelines
Privacy
Terms

Language

Color mode

Essay concerning human understanding by John Locke · Booklabria

Explore books
John Locke
Essay concerning human understanding

History and criticismTechnique

Essay concerning human understanding

by John LockeNot on Booklabria yet

No ratings on Booklabria yet·Be the first to rate it

Want to read this?

Join free to shelve it and hear when an author offers free copies.

Join free

No one on Booklabria has shelved this yet.

First published: 1689
Editions: 188 in 5 languages

Synopsis

Locke's Essay ... (1690) withstood an onslaught by traditional theologians, for rejecting orthodox theology and the concept of innate ideas: as he suggested that God could make matter think. The Essay quickly became one of the most influential books of the eighteenth century, and its contributions to the philosophy of space and time, matter and power were quickly hailed as formative contributions to ... philosophy''--Amazon.com.

Subjects: History and criticism
Technique
Early works to 1800
Music
Theory of Knowledge
Ouvrages avant 1800
Time: Early works to 1800
Characters: John Locke

Content notes

No content warnings recorded yet. Catalogue records don't include them, which doesn't mean the book has none.

More by John Locke

All books

Two Treatises on Government

Essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government

A Letter Concerning Toleration

Some thoughts concerning education

The works of John Locke

The Second Treatise on Civil Government (Great Books in Philosophy)

Essays on the law of nature

Political writings

Related bookssharing subjects with this book

A treatise of human nature
David Hume
The advancement of learning
Francis Bacon
Discours de la méthode
René Descartes
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
David Hume
Personal knowledge
Michael Polanyi
An essay on man
Ernst Cassirer
The philosophy of Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Conjectures and refutations
Karl Popper, Michelle Irene, de Launay Marc B.
Steps to an ecology of mind
Gregory Bateson
Epistemic injustice
Miranda Fricker
Mind and Nature
Gregory Bateson
Problems of knowledge and freedom
Noam Chomsky

Reviews

No reviews on Booklabria yet. The first one starts the conversation here.

Book data and covers from Open Library (openlibrary.org).

Editions

188 in 5 languages

See all editions ›

English147 French17 German3 Latin3 All 5 languages

The most complete records first.

See all 147 English editions

Editions and their details come from Open Library, as its contributors recorded them. Publisher names are shown as recorded. See this book on Open Library(opens Open Library)