An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is John Locke’s foundational philosophical work that explores the origins, limits, and nature of human knowledge and helped shape Enlightenment thought.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
treatise
arguesAgainst innate ideas
author John Locke
book1MainTopic innate ideas
book2MainTopic origin of ideas
book3MainTopic language and meaning
book4MainTopic knowledge and opinion
claims the mind is a tabula rasa at birth
countryOfOrigin England
discusses association of ideas
complex ideas
knowledge of the external world
nominal essence
personal identity over time
real essence
simple ideas
substance
firstPublished 1690
genre early modern philosophy
epistemology
hasEdition 1694 edition
1700 edition
hasPart Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
influenced David Hume
Enlightenment thought
George Berkeley
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
influencedBy Aristotle
René Descartes
scholastic philosophy
language English
mainTopic empiricism
human knowledge
ideas
language
limits of knowledge
personal identity
movement Empiricism
surface form: British empiricism
notableConcept degrees of assent
tabula rasa
period Early Modern period
philosophicalPosition empiricism
publicationDate 1689
publisher Thomas Basset

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