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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Enlightenment thought →
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Immanuel Kant →
Jean-Jacques Rousseau →
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René Descartes →
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publisher Thomas Basset →

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