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Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- 448 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 1689
- 188 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
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''.
- Theory of Knowledge
- Knowledge
- Music
- Knowledge, theory of
- Technique
- Connaissance, Théorie de la
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