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2007
by Pomona Press
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Paperback, 384 pages
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1406790273
(isbn13: 9781406790276)
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press ...more
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Read in January, 2007
Reading this again, under less purposive circumstances, I'm struck by how well it works as a work of prose, with delerious, rushed passages and moments of stillness and clarity, things Locke wants to say but steps back from (i.e. the possibility that matter can think), and funny, self-deprecating lines like "as the chief End of Language in Communication [is:] to be understood, Words serve not well for that end." Great.
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Read in October, 2002
recommends it for:
_People interested in philosophy, but scared of it
John Locke's readable discourse on empiricism, which we might think of now as inductive reasoning from contingent facts, covers a broad scope and gives readers a taste of the Enlightenment in its full flower.
Written before philosophy became too specialized for everyday discourse, this book serves as an excellent starting point anyone wanting to venture into philosophy. John Locke's easy writing style stands in contrast to his formidable reputation, and within these pages he pulls together ...more
Written before philosophy became too specialized for everyday discourse, this book serves as an excellent starting point anyone wanting to venture into philosophy. John Locke's easy writing style stands in contrast to his formidable reputation, and within these pages he pulls together ...more
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I get the sense from reading this that John Locke would be someone I would enjoy hanging out with. His pragmatic approach is refreshing in the world of philosophy, and his argumentative style beats you over the head with its sensibility again and again. I find it fascinating to see how much our institutions built on the thoughts espoused here. Locke comes across as an incredible orator as well, though I haven't heard the urban legends of that aspect of our "founding father".
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Humans appropriate from Nature - the how condition and consequence; started the thread that lead to Marx and the human as prodcutive machine. Locke is a genius of first order and still very much alive in all of us in our social and political thinking.
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All of these enlightenment thinker and I've never given them a shot on their own outside of a sentence or two on a chalkboard...
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Good early empirical enquiry. I give it an A for effort.
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