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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1

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Philosophy & Psychology

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke

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No ideas are innate, John Locke begins, and modern psychology begins with him. The first volume of his essay demolishes inborn principles, then derives all our ideas from sensation and reflection, examining perception, memory, and the furniture of the mind piece by piece. The founding survey of human understanding built from experience up. Inventory your mind with its first cartographer.

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49 chapters

  1. 1An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
  2. 2MDCXC
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4MY LORD,
  5. 5MY LORD,
  6. 6JOHN LOCKE
  7. 7THE EPISTLE TO THE READER
  8. 8READER,
  9. 9ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING.
  10. 10BOOK I NEITHER PRINCIPLES NOR IDEAS ARE INNATE
  11. 11CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
  12. 12CHAPTER II. NO INNATE SPECULATIVE PRINCIPLES.
  13. 13CHAPTER III. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES
  14. 14CHAPTER IV. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING INNATE PRINCIPLES, BOTH SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL.
  15. 15BOOK II OF IDEAS
  16. 16CHAPTER I. OF IDEAS IN GENERAL, AND THEIR ORIGINAL.
  17. 17CHAPTER II. OF SIMPLE IDEAS.
  18. 18CHAPTER III. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSE.

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