An essay concerning human understanding
By: John Locke ; edited with a foreword by Peter H. Nidditch.
Contributors: Nidditch, P. H.
Series: The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 748
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.
Description: Locke's Essay ... (1690) withstood an onslaught by traditional theologians, for rejecting orthodox theology and the concept of innate ideas: as he suggested that God could make matter think. The Essay quickly became one of the most influential books of the eighteenth century, and its contributions to the philosophy of space and time, matter and power were quickly hailed as formative contributions to ... philosophy''--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes index.