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But their real and underlying concern is with innate knowledge. For instance,
innate ideas figure in the lines immediately following those quoted above from I.ii.
1 . Yet when the passage is taken as a whole it is plain that they figure merely in
Though the early writings of the Essays on the Law of Nature and draft B of the
Essay do refer to speculative principles they are concerned mainly with practical
ones. This concern was apparently shared with the adversaries Locke had in
This section is in effect concerned with a further detail of Locke's
corpuscularianism and its bearing on Scholasticism. In Book II ... The first six
paragraphs concern 'positive ideas and privative causes', and the remaining
seventeen 'primary and ...
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Book Review Locke: A Biography by Roger Woolhouse The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) left behind not only "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1690) but also his laundry lists and ... Read full review
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English philosopher John Locke's theories of human nature and knowledge have deeply influenced political theory, as well as our notions about education and civil liberties, most crucially providing ... Read full review