In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate in us, Locke argues that it derives from sense perceptions and experience, as analysed and developed by reason. While defending these central claims with vigorous common sense, Locke offers many incidental - and highly influential - reflections on space and time, meaning, free will and personal identity. The result is a powerful, pioneering work, which, together with Descartes's works, largely set the agenda for modern philosophy. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Locke, John

History & Criticism

Penguin Classics

John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the history of Western thought. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Great Ideas of the Abuse of Words (Penguin Great Ideas)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Penguin Uk

John Locke (1632-1704) is perhaps the greatest philosopher in the English language. A political activist in a revolutionary age, Locke's prolific correspondence opens up the cultural, social, intellectual, and political worlds of the later Stuart era. Spanning half a century, the letters trace the transition from Puritanism to the Enlightenment. A man of insatiable curiosity, Locke's letters encompass science (his correspondents include Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle), education, travel, religion, and the birth of the British empire.

Selected Correspondence

Clarendon Press

Written before his better-known philosophical works, these essays fully explain how natural law is known and to what extent it is binding.

Essays on the Law of Nature: The Latin Text with a Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Transcripts of Locke's Shorthand in his Journal for 1676

Oxford University Press

Worn dust jacket has short tears to the edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

When the eight volumes of correspondence have appeared they will be recognized as one of the great scholarly achievements of their day.' K. H. D. Haley in The Times Literary Supplement .

The Correspondence of John Locke (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

History

Europe

This is the first major critical edition of Locke's 1695 enquiry into the foundations of Christianity. Locke maintains that the essentials of the faith, few and simple, can be found by anyone for themselves in the Scripture, and that this provides a basis for tolerant agreement among Christians. An authoritative text is accompanied by abundant information conducive to an understanding of Locke's religious thought.

The Reasonableness of Christianity As Delivered in the Scriptures (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

This volume is the first of three which will contain all of Locke's extant writings on philosophy which relate to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, other than those contained in volumes of the Clarendon Edition of John Locke such as the Correspondence. The book contains the two earliest known drafts of the Essay, both written in 1671, and provides for the first time an accurate version of Locke's text together with a record of virtually all his changes, in notes at the foot of each page.

Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and other Philosophical Writings (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

Compiled here for the first time is the complete body of Locke's writings on money, excluding Two Treatises of Government. Accurate texts, together with a listing of variant readings and significant manuscript changes, record the evolution of Locke's ideas from his original 1668-1674 paper on interest to the three pamphlets on interest and coinage published in the 1690s. The introduction by Kelly establishes the wider context of Locke's writings in terms of contemporary debates on these subjects, the economic conditions of the time, and the circumstances of writing and publicaton. It shows, notably, that Locke's supposed responsibility for the 1696 recoinage is a myth. The account of what Locke derived from Mercantilist writings and of how he reformulated these in accordance with his philosophy illuminates his contribution to the evolution of economics, and will aid reappraisal of Two Treatises. The picture that emerges confirms Locke's status as a major economic thinker, contrary to the prevalent view of recent decades. There are two volumes in the present edition. The first contains the introductory matter, and the texts of The Early Writings on Interest, 1688-1674 and Some Considerations. The second comprises Short Observations, Further Considerations, and the Appendices, Bibliography, and Index.

Locke On Money (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

Business & Money

Economics

This final volume of the letters of John locke contains letters 3287-3648, and covers the period from May 15, 1703 to August 23, 1704. It also contains the full index to all eight volumes of the Locke Correspondence.

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Penguin Classics)

Great Ideas of the Abuse of Words (Penguin Great Ideas)

Selected Correspondence

Essays on the Law of Nature: The Latin Text with a Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Transcripts of Locke's Shorthand in his Journal for 1676

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

The Correspondence of John Locke (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

The Reasonableness of Christianity As Delivered in the Scriptures (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and other Philosophical Writings (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

Locke On Money (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)

The Correspondence of John Locke (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)