An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke Edited by Pauline Phemister Oxford World's Classics. A carefully abridged edition of John Locke's classic work, using P. H. Nidditch's authoritative text; Includes a new introduction by Pauline Phemister which sets the context for Locke's essay and provides an analysis of its arguments and.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 (although dated 1690) with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding.He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual words) filled later through experience.
The intention is to include all texts published in Locke's name that can securely be attributed to him, together with his correspondence, and a considerable body of his unpublished manuscripts. The project was inaugurated by Peter Nidditch with the publication of his edition of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding in 1975.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is one of John Locke's two most famous works, the other being his Second Treatise on Civil Government. First appearing in 1690, the essay concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual words.
John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke’s monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics.
Recommended edition: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Peter H. Nidditch (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975). Excerpt: Since it is the understanding, that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion, which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.