An Essay Concerning Human Understanding »

Pauline Phemister is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Volume 2 of a 2-volume set of Locke’s monumental work containing every word of all four books comprising the Essay. The editor, Professor A. C. Fraser, has provided marginal analyses of almost every paragraph, plus hundreds of explanatory footnotes which comment, elaborate, explain difficult points, etc.

Introduction

Locke's Life and Writing

The Essay concerning Human Understanding

Books I and II: Ideas and Principles

Book III: Language and Abstraction

Book IV: Knowledge

Reception and Legacy

Note on the Text

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A Chronology of John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1

Appendix Extracts from Locke's Letters to Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester 464

Explanatory Notes 497

Index 515