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Originally published in 1902 as a portion of the author’s larger “The World’s History and Its Makers, Vol. IV: Great Philosophers,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, explores the life and philosophy of John Locke.
Includes supplemental material:
• A Brief Summary of the Life of John Locke
• A Brief History of Materialism
Sample passage:
Some things, he discovers, are beyond the comprehension of any mind whatever. With these, he says, it is worse than useless to meddle. Better to sit down in quiet ignorance of things that are hopelessly beyond our comprehension than try to decipher the undecipherable. He hopes to teach men to consider these matters that may be of some use and purpose in their limited lives and to leave alone the incomprehensible. His plan, then, is to find out whence human ideas are derived; i.e., the origin of ideas. Ideas he calls by that name itself, or “notions, or whatever else one may please to call them, which a man observes and is conscious to himself he has in his mind.” He will attempt to discover how the mind is furnished with these ideas, or notions; on what the certainty of its knowledge is based, and the grounds for faith.
About the author:
Edgar Sanderson (1838-1907) was a British historian whose other works include “History of the British Empire,” “Hero Patriots of the Nineteenth Century,” and “The Fight for the Flag in South Africa.”
ASIN : B0088DJ67E
Publisher : A. J. Cornell Publications (June 1, 2012)
Publication date : June 1, 2012
Language : English
File size : 85 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 10 pages
