An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (World Philosophers and Their Works)
At a glance:
- Author: John Locke
- First Published: 1690
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Essays
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Seventeenth century, Truth, Idealism, Intellect, Senses or sensation, Reason or reasoning, Mind and body, Empiricism
Context
John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is the first major presentation of the empirical theory of knowledge that was to play such an important role in British philosophy. The author had studied at Oxford, and later he became a medical doctor. Although he did not practice much, he was greatly interested in the developments current in medical and physical science, and there is some evidence that he first began to formulate his theory of knowledge in terms of considerations arising from medical researches of the day. Locke was a member of the Royal...
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