The Cambridge Companion to Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding'

The Cambridge Companion to Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding'
Author: Lex Newman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2007-03-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139827235

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First published in 1689, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is widely recognised as among the greatest works in the history of Western philosophy. The Essay puts forward a systematic empiricist theory of mind, detailing how all ideas and knowledge arise from sense experience. Locke was trained in mechanical philosophy and he crafted his account to be consistent with the best natural science of his day. The Essay was highly influential and its rendering of empiricism would become the standard for subsequent theorists. This Companion volume includes fifteen new essays from leading scholars. Covering the major themes of Locke's work, they explain his views while situating the ideas in the historical context of Locke's day and often clarifying their relationship to ongoing work in philosophy. Pitched to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it is ideal for use in courses on early modern philosophy, British empiricism and John Locke.

Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding

Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
Author: John Dewey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1888
Genre: Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN:

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New Essays on Human Understanding is a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal by Gottfried Leibniz of John Locke's major work, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. It was finished in 1704 but Locke's death was the cause alleged by Leibniz to withhold its publication. The book appeared some sixty years later. Like many philosophical works of the time, it is written in dialogue form. The two speakers in the book are Theophilus, who represents the views of Leibniz, and Philalethes, who represents those of Locke. The famous rebuttal to the empiricist thesis about the provenance of ideas appears at the beginning of Book II: "Nothing is in the mind without being first in the senses, except for the mind itself". All of Locke's major arguments against innate ideas are criticized at length by Leibniz, who defends an extreme view of innate cognition, according to which all thoughts and actions of the soul are innate. In addition to his discussion of innate ideas, Leibniz offers penetrating critiques of Locke's views on personal identity, free will, mind-body dualism, language, necessary truth, and Locke's attempted proof of the existence of God.

Idealism

Idealism
Author: Tyron Goldschmidt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198746970

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Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental. The best-known forms of idealism in Western philosophy are Berkeleyan idealism, which gives ontological priority to the mental (minds and ideas) over the physical (bodies), and Kantian idealism, which gives a kind of explanatory priority to the mental (the structure of the understanding) over the physical (the structure of the empirical world). Although idealism was once a dominant view in Western philosophy, it has suffered almost total neglect over the last several decades. This book rectifies this situation by bringing together seventeen essays by leading philosophers on the topic of metaphysical idealism. The various essays explain, attack, or defend a variety of idealistic theories, including not only Berkeleyan and Kantian idealisms but also those developed in traditions less familiar to analytic philosophers, including Buddhism and Hassidic Judaism. Although a number of the articles draw on historical sources, all will be of interest to philosophers working in contemporary metaphysics. This volume aims to spark a revival of serious philosophical interest in metaphysical idealism.

Virtue’s Reasons

Virtue’s Reasons
Author: Noell Birondo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 131531424X

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This collection sheds light on precisely how virtues and reasons are related to each other and what can be learned by exploring this relationship. The first section analyzes how the virtues may be related to, or linked with, normative reasons in ways that improve our understanding of what constitutes virtuous character and ethical agency. The second section explores the reasons moral agents have for cultivating the virtues of character and how the virtues impact moral responsiveness or development. The final section examines how reasons can be employed in understanding the nature of virtue, and how specific virtues, like modesty and practical wisdom, interact with reasons.

Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding

Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1996-11-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521576604

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In the New Essays on Human Understanding, Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, challenging his views about knowledge, personal identity, God, morality, mind and matter, nature versus nurture, logic and language, and a host of other topics. The work is a series of sharp, deep discussions by one great philosopher of the work of another. Leibniz's references to his contemporaries and his discussions of the ideas and institutions of the age make this a fascinating and valuable document in the history of ideas. The work was originally written in French, and the version by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett, based on the only reliable French edition (published in 1962), first appeared in 1981 and has become the standard English translation. It has been thoroughly revised for this series and provided with a new and longer introduction, a chronology on Leibniz's life and career and a guide to further reading.

New Essays Concerning Human Understanding

New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2014-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781498125796

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

New Essays Concerning Human Understanding

New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 861
Release: 1896
Genre: Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN:

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NEW ESSAYS CONCERNING HUMAN UN

NEW ESSAYS CONCERNING HUMAN UN
Author: K. Gerhardt
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2016-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781371380748

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