人类理解论

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人类理解论

1689 · 作者：约翰·洛克

没有天赋观念：一切知识都来自经验。

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简介

Locke says in the preface that the Essay began around 1670 with a discussion among five or six friends that made him ask what our understanding is fit to deal with. Twenty years later it appeared, dated 1690, in four books. Book I attacks the doctrine of innate ideas, Book II derives all ideas from sensation and reflection and distinguishes simple from complex ideas and primary from secondary qualities, Book III deals with words and Book IV with knowledge, probability and faith. The chapter on personal identity was added in the second edition of 1694. The image of the mind as “white paper” comes from Book II.