An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

by Locke, John

• ISBN13: 9781853267833
• ISBN10: 185326783X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Lb May & Assoc Inc

Summary

Volume 1 of a 2-volume set of Locke's monumental work containing every word of all 4 books comprising the Essay. Marginal analyses of almost every paragraph, plus hundreds of explanatory footnotes.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Further Reading	xxv
The Epistle to the Reader	3	(8)
BOOK ONE
Introduction	11	(8)
No Innate Principles in the Mind	19	(12)
No Innate Practical Principles	31	(9)
Other Considerations Concerning Innate Principles Both Speculative and Practical	40	(9)
BOOK TWO
Of Ideas in General and their Original	49	(12)
Of Simple Ideas	61	(3)
Of Ideas of One Sense	64	(2)
Of Solidity	66	(5)
Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses	71	(1)
Of Simple Ideas of Reflection	72	(1)
Of Simple Ideas of Both Sensation and Reflection	73	(3)
Some Farther Considerations Concerning our Simple Ideas	76	(10)
Of Perception	86	(7)
Of Retention	93	(7)
Of Discerning, and Other Operations of the Mind	100	(7)
Of Complex Ideas	107	(4)
Of Simple Modes; and First, of the Simple Modes of Space	111	(11)
Of Duration, and its Simple Modes	122	(10)
Of Duration and Expansion Considered Together	132	(7)
Of Number	139	(4)
Of Infinity	143	(9)
Of the Modes of Thinking	152	(3)
Of Power	155	(17)
Of Mixed Modes	172	(4)
Of Our Complex Ideas of Substances	176	(22)
Of Collective Ideas of Substances	198	(1)
Of Relation	199	(5)
Of Cause and Effect, and Other Relations	204	(3)
Of Identity and Diversity	207	(20)
Of Other Relations	227	(4)
Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas	231	(5)
Of Real and Fantastical Ideas	236	(2)
Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas	238	(6)
Of True and False Ideas	244	(3)
Of the Association of Ideas	247	(8)
BOOK THREE
Of Words or Language in General	255	(3)
Of the Signification of Words	258	(2)
Of General Terms	260	(12)
Of the Names of Simple Ideas	272	(3)
Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations	275	(3)
Of the Names of Substances	278	(12)
Of Abstract and Concrete Terms	290	(5)
BOOK FOUR
Of Knowledge in General	295	(7)
Of the Degrees Of Our Knowledge	302	(7)
Of the Extent of Human Knowledge	309	(21)
Of the Reality of Our Knowledge	330	(5)
Of Truth in General	335	(3)
Of Universal Propositions, Their Truth and Certainty	338	(6)
Of Maxims	344	(8)
Of Trifling Propositions	352	(3)
Of Our Knowledge of Existence	355	(2)
Of Our Knowledge of the Existence of a God	357	(12)
Of Our Knowledge of the Existence of Other Things	369	(9)
Of the Improvement of Our Knowledge	378	(5)
Of Judgement	383	(2)
Of Probability	385	(3)
Of the Degrees of Assent	388	(8)
Of Reason	396	(13)
Of Faith and Reason, and their Distinct Provinces	409	(4)
Of Enthusiasm	413	(5)
Of Wrong Assent, or Error	418	(7)
Of the Division of the Sciences	425