Remarks Upon an Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Locke
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Published: 2015-06-25
Total Pages: 690
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Notes and Illus of the Author, and an Analysis of His Doctrine of Ideas; Also, Questions on Locke's Essay Reader, I Here put into thy hands what has been the diversion of some of my idle and heavy hours; if it has the good-hick to prove so of any of thine, and thou hast but half so much pleasure in reading as I had in writing it, thou wilt as little think thy money, as I do my pains, ill bestowed. Mistake not this for a commendation of my work; nor conclude, because I was pleased with the doing of it, that therefore I am fondly taken with it now it is done. He that hawks at larks and sparrows, has no less sport, though a much less considerable quarry, than he that files at nobler game: and he is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise, the Understanding, who does not know, that as it is the most elevated faculty of the soul, so it is employed with a greater and more constant delight than any of the other. Its searches after truth are a sort of hawking and hunting, wherein the very pursuit makes a great part of the pleasure. Every step the mind takes in its progress towards knowledge makes some discovery, which is not only new, but the best, too, for the time at least. For the understanding, like the eye, judging of objects only by its own sight, cannot but be pleased with what it discovers, having less regret for what has escaped it, because it is unknown. Thus he who has raised himself above the alms-basket, and not content to live lazily on scraps of begged opinions, sets his own thoughts on work, to find and follow truth, will (whatever he lights on) not miss the hunter's satisfaction; every moment of his pursuit will reward his pains with some delight, and he will have reason to think his time not ill spent, even when he cannot much boast of any great acquisition. This, reader, is the entertainment of those who let loose their own thoughts, and follow them in writing; which thou oughtest not to envy them, since they afford thee an opportunity of the like diversion, if thou wilt make use of thy own thoughts in reading. It is to them, if they are thy own, that I refer myself; but if they are:taken upon trust from others, it is no great matter what they are, they not following truth, but some meaner con sideration; and it is not worth while to be concerned what he says or thinks, who says or thinks only as he is directed by another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Sterling Power Lamprecht
Publisher: Archives of Philosophy, 11
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the moral and political philosophies of John Locke in comparison with his predecessors and contemporaries such as Hobbes and Filman.
Author: M. Bigold
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-12
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1137033576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 360
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