Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding': A Reader's Guide

✍ Scribed by William Uzgalis

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 148
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Continuum's Reader's Guides are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the reader toward a thorough understanding of often demanding material. Ideal for undergraduate students, the guides provide an essential resource for anyone who needs to get to grips with a philosophical text. John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic text, which laid out the basic principles of the Empiricism that was to characterise British Philosophy for centuries to come.This is a hugely important and exciting, yet challenging, piece of philosophical writing.In Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: A Reader's Guide, Bill Uzgalis explains the philosophical background against which the book was written and the key themes inherent in the text. The book then guides the reader to a clear understanding of the text as a whole, before exploring the reception and influence of this classic philosophical work. This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
1 Context......Page 8
2 Overview of Themes......Page 14
The Epistle to the Reader......Page 16
Book I: of the Essay......Page 19
Book II: of the Essay......Page 27
Book III: of the Essay......Page 83
Book IV: of the Essay......Page 101
4 Reception and Influence......Page 137
Bibliography......Page 141
D......Page 144
I......Page 145
P......Page 146
U......Page 147
Y......Page 148