The complete online text of An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke.

The English philosopher and political theorist John Locke began the empiricist tradition and thus initiated the greatest age of British philosophy. He attempted to center philosophy on an analysis of the extent and capabilities of the human mind. John Lo...

The library that John Locke assembled was intended for use rather than for show. Unlike Samuel Pepys, who assembled a collection of some three thousand volumes, about the same size as Locke's, he did not care for display; nor is there evidence to suggest...

John Locke is probably the most important, and certainly the most influential, of all English philosophers. Although he published his first work, typically anonymously, when he was fifty-seven, by the end of his life, barely fifteen years later, he was,...

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke Commonly acknowledged to be the most influential philosopher writing in English, John Locke (1632-1704) was a thinker whose career spanned a wide range of fields. His skills included those of...

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is one of John Locke's two most famous works, the other being his Second Treatise on Civil Government. First appearing in 1690, the essay concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. He describes...

I will call them my people, which are not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, "You are not My people," there they shall be called...

The smuggling of people across borders commonly captures a sense of curiosity or adventure. Mass media often presents us with impressions of old container trucks or cargo trains crossing borders locked with a sweating crowd grasping for breath. Other times, it is about...

In the following essay, Brantley proposes that John Locke's An Essay concerning Human Understanding was central in forming Wesley's methodology and that Wesley's model of experience was vital to and pervasive in British romanticism.

In the following essay, Woolhouse examines Locke's view of the relationship between experience, ideas, and knowledge in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, emphasizing Locke's rejection of the innatist conception of the origin of knowledge and "moral truths."

In the following essay, Yolton discusses the primary philosophical issues and concepts addressed by Locke in Book I of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. He emphasizes Locke's expansive treatment of scientific concepts and problems associated with diverse fields of study including ethics, linguistics, psychology, logic, and theology.