An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I

By Locke, John

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Title:	An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I
Author:	Locke, John
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Language:	English
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Excerpt: THE EPISTLE TO THE READER. READER, I have put into thy hands what has been the diversion of some of my idle and heavy hours. If it has the good luck 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 flies 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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I, 1 -- John Locke, 1 -- THE EPISTLE TO THE READER, 3 -- ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, 9 -- Introduction, 9 -- BOOK I. NEITHER PRINCIPLES NOR IDEAS ARE INNATE, 12 -- Chapter I. NO INNATE SPECULATIVE PRINCIPLES, 12 -- Chapter II. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES, 21 -- Chapter III. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING INNATE PRINCIPLES, BOTH -- SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL, 31 -- BOOK II. OF IDEAS, 41 -- Chapter I. OF IDEAS IN GENERAL, AND THEIR ORIGINAL, 41 -- Chapter II. OF SIMPLE IDEAS, 48 -- Chapter III. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSE, 49 -- Chapter IV. IDEA OF SOLIDITY, 50 -- Chapter V. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF DIVERS SENSES, 53 -- Chapter VI. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF REFLECTION, 53 -- Chapter VII. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF BOTH SENSATION AND REFLECTION, 53 -- Chapter VIII. SOME FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING OUR SIMPLE -- IDEAS OF SENSATION, 56 -- Chapter IX. OF PERCEPTION, 62 -- Chapter X. OF RETENTION, 65 -- Chapter XI. OF DISCERNING, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE MIND, 68 -- Chapter XII. OF COMPLEX IDEAS, 73 -- Chapter XIII. COMPLEX IDEAS OF SIMPLE MODES:?AND FIRST, OF THE SIMPLE -- MODES OF IDEA OF SPACE, 74 -- Chapter XIV. IDEA OF DURATION AND ITS SIMPLE MODES, 82 -- Chapter XV. IDEAS OF DURATION AND EXPANSION, CONSIDERED TOGETHER, 91 -- Chapter XVI. IDEA OF NUMBER, 95 -- Chapter XVII. OF INFINITY, 97 -- Chapter XVIII. OTHER SIMPLE MODES, 105 -- Chapter XIX. OF THE MODES OF THINKING, 106 -- Chapter XX. OF MODES OF PLEASURE AND PAIN, 108 -- Chapter XXI. OF POWER, 111 -- Chapter XXII. OF MIXED MODES, 135 -- Chapter XXIII. OF OUR COMPLEX IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES, 138 -- Chapter XXIV. OF COLLECTIVE IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES, 150 -- Chapter XXV. OF RELATION, 151 -- Chapter XXVI. OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND OTHER RELATIONS, 154 -- Chapter XXVII. OF IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY, 156 -- Chapter XXVIII. OF OTHER RELATIONS, 166 -- Chapter XXIX. OF CLEAR AND OBSCURE, DISTINCT AND CONFUSED IDEAS, 172 -- Chapter XXX. OF REAL AND FANTASTICAL IDEAS, 178 -- Chapter XXXI. OF ADEQUATE AND INADEQUATE IDEAS, 179 -- Chapter XXXII. OF TRUE AND FALSE IDEAS, 184 -- Chapter XXXIII. OF THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS, 190 -- An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I -- i