An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke, Gent (PT261)

Published 1877: Revised Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated

Original maroon embossed decorated cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 664 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on the opening pages, edges and endpapers, portrait frontispiece page is loose but within. Boards are slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners and spine ends consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A very scarce edition. (PT261)

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Four Books in One Volume:
Book 1. of Innate Notions
Book 2. of Ideas
Book 3. of Words
Book 4. of Knowledge and Opinion

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke, Gent. With Notes and Illustrations by the Author. And Analysis of His Doctrine of Ideas. Also Questions of Locke's Essay by A. M. Gold Medallist and Ethical Moderator in Trinity College, Dublin. Carefully Revised and Compared with the Best Copies. Published by William Tegg and Co., London - 1877.

Foundational text of British empiricism and one of the most influential works of philosophy ever written.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is John Locke's masterpiece and one of the founding documents of modern philosophy. In it Locke set out to examine the origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, arguing against the notion of innate ideas and contending that the mind at birth is a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, upon which all our ideas are written by experience, through sensation and reflection. The Essay established the tradition of British empiricism carried forward by Berkeley and Hume, shaped the Enlightenment's confidence in reason and observation, and influenced the framers of the American republic, who drew on Locke's account of the mind as well as on his political philosophy. John Locke was a physician, philosopher, and political thinker whose Two Treatises of Government furnished the intellectual foundations of liberal constitutionalism, and whose ideas on toleration, property, and natural rights echo through the Declaration of Independence. Endlessly reprinted through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Essay long remained a standard text for students of philosophy. Google Books.