No innate practical principles. Part I

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

by John LOCKE (1632 - 1704)

John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes the notion of innate ideas and argues against a number of propositions that rationalists offer as universally accepted truth. In the second book Locke elaborates the role played by sensation, reflection, perception and retention in giving rise to simple ideas. Then he elaborates on how different modes, substances and relations of simple ideas (of the same kind) give rise to complex ideas v.g. space, time, infinity etc. Finally he discusses complex ideas of mixed modes which arise from a combination of simple ideas of different kinds v.g. identity and diversity, cause and effect, etc. (Summary by bala) Prooflistening for this project was done by bala and Rapunzelina

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Other considerations concerning innate principles, both speculative and practical. Part II , Of ideas in general, and their original. Part II , Of simple modes:—and first, of the simple modes of the idea of space Part II , Idea of duration and its simple modes Part II , Of our complex ideas of substances Part II , Of ideas of identity and diversity Part II , Idea of duration and its simple modes Part I , Idea of number and its simple modes , Ideas of duration and expansion, considered together , No innate practical principles. Part II , Of adequate and inadequate ideas , Of clear and obscure, distinct and confused ideas , Of collective ideas of substances; of ideas of relation; of ideas of cause and effect, and other relations , Of complex ideas , Of discerning, and other operations of the mind , Of ideas in general, and their original. Part I , Of ideas of identity and diversity Part I , Of ideas of other relations , Of mixed modes , Of other simple modes; of the modes of thinking ; of modes of pleasure and pain , Of our complex ideas of substances Part I , Of perception , Of real and fantastical ideas , Of retention , Of simple ideas of divers senses ; Of simple ideas of reflection; Of simple ideas of both sensation and reflection. , Of simple ideas ; of simple ideas of sense ; idea of solidity. , Of simple modes:—and first, of the simple modes of the idea of space Part I , Of the association of ideas , Of the idea of infinity Part I , Of the idea of infinity Part II , Of the idea of power Part I , Of the idea of power Part II , Of the idea of power Part III , Of the idea of power Part IV , Of true and false ideas , Other considerations concerning innate principles, both speculative and practical. Part I , Some further considerations concerning our simple ideas of sensation