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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781025414287
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 434
Weight: 1.72
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
An Essays Concerning Human Understanding is a cornerstone of modern philosophy and a foundational text of British empiricism. In this monumental work, John Locke examines the nature of human knowledge, its scope, and its limits. He famously argues against the existence of innate ideas, proposing instead that the human mind at birth is a blank slate, or tabula rasa, which is filled through experience and sensory perception.
Divided into four books, the treatise explores how we acquire simple and complex ideas, the role of language in communication, and the degrees of certainty and probability in human thought. Locke's systematic approach to the mind's operations helped shape the Enlightenment and influenced a wide range of subsequent thinkers, from David Hume to Immanuel Kant. This work remains essential reading for anyone interested in the development of Western intellectual history and the mechanics of human cognition. By questioning how we come to know the world, Locke provides a rigorous framework for understanding the relationship between the individual mind and external reality.
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