An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of Understanding ; Collated with Desmaizeaux's Ed. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

John Locke

Mundell & Son, 1801 - 308 pages

Contents

• SECT: x
• SECT CHAP: xvii
• CHA P: xxix
• The Dedication CIVERSIDAD CENTRAL BIBLIOTECA: xxxi
• SECT: 1
• Mental Propofitions are very hard to be treated: 4
• Secondly Want of Skill to uſe them: 5
• Thirdly Want of Will to uſe them: 6
• Powers a great part of our complex Ideas of Sub: 7
• If Reafon diſcovered them that would not prove ther: 8
• But Knowledge of Bodies is to be improved only: 9
• And: 10
• Conftant Connection between the Name and nominal: 16
• Affenting as foon as propofed and understood proves: 17
• That a man fhould be bufy in thinking and yet: 19
• Difference of Mens Diſcoveries depends upon the dif: 22
• Thefe Maxims not the first known: 23
• Moral Rules need a Proof ergo not innate: 29
• Thoſe who maintain innate practical Principles tell: 39
• Men must think and know for themſelves: 68
• CHAP II: 87
• SECT: 97
• Of Retention: 120
• Brutes have Memory: 126
• Method: 134
• Clear and obfcure explained by Sight: 2
• Caufes of Obſcurity: 3
• Diftint and confufed what: 4
• Objection: 5
• Confufion of Ideas is in reference to their Names: 6
• Defaults which make Confufion First complex Ideas made up of too few fimple ones: 7
• Secondly Or its fimple ones jumbled diforderly: 8
• Simple Ideas the Materials of all our Knowledge: 9
• Confufion without reference to Names hardly: 10
• And why 9 Three forts of Ideas make our complex ones of Sub ftances: 14
• The now fecondary Qualities of Bodies would diſappear if we could diſcover the primary ones of their minute Parts: 16
• Our Faculties of Diſcovery fuited to our ſtate 13 Conjecture about Spirits: 18
• Obj Innate Principles may be corrupted anfwered: 20
• No Idea of abſtract Subſtance 17 The Cohesion of folid Parts and Impulfe the primary Ideas of Body 18 Thinking and Motivity the primary Ideas of ...: 21
• Idea of Soul and Body compared 2327 Coheſion of folid Parts in Body as hard to be con ceived as Thinking in a Soul: 23
• Secondary Qualities twofold firft immediately per: 26
• Principles muſt be examined: 27
• Ideas of Body and Spirit compared 31 The Notion of Spirit involves no more difficulty in it than that of Body: 29
• We know nothing beyond our fimple Ideas 3335 Idea of God 36 No Ideas in our complex one of Spirits but thoſe got from Senfation or Reflection: 32
• Recapitulation: 33
• Of collective Ideas of Subflances: 34
• ceivable: 89
• Confufion concerns always two Ideas 12 Cauſes of Confufion: 90
• Complex Ideas may be diftint in one part and con fufed in another: 91
• This if not heeded cauſes Confufion in our Arguings 35 Inftances in Eternity: 92
• Divifibility of Matter: 93
• Of Real and Fantaſtical Ideas: 96
• CHAP II: 132
• What things have proper Names: 138
• Real and nominal Effence the fame in fimple Ideas: 147
• SECT: 210
• Why Time cures fome Diſorders in the Mind which: 227
• One Idea: i
• SECT: iv
• CHAP V: v
• SECT CHAP VII: xi
• The Way ſhown how we come by any Knowledge: 1
• Made by the Power of compofing in the mind: 2
• All artificial things are collective Ideas: 3
• Mixed Modes made of confiftent Ideas are real: 4
• Ideas of Subſtances are real when they agree with: 5
• Whole and Part not innate Ideas: 6
• Which Ideas firſt are not evident: 7
• Demonftrative: 8
• Depends on Proofs 4 But not fo cafy: 9
• Not without precedent Doubt 6 Not fo clear: 10
• Each Step muſt have intuitive Evidence 8 Hence the Miftake ex pręcognitis et pręconceffis: 11
• Suitable to Gods goodness that all men fhould have: 12
• Each distinct abſtract Idea is a diſtinct Effence: 14
• Perception the Inlet of Knowledge: 15
• Idea of Subftance not innate: 18
• Being nothing but the joining or feparating Ideas with: 59
• tainty: 63
• Real and nominal Effence: 64
• This more particularly concerns Subſtances: 65
• Judgment may reach farther but that is not Know: 73
• are equally felfevident 5 Secondly In Coexistence we have few felfevident Propofitions: 78
• Thirdly In other Relations we may have 7 Fourthly Concerning the real Exiftence we have none: 81
• Theſe Axioms do not much influence our other Know ledge: 83
• What Uſe theſe general Maxims have 12 Maxims if care be not taken in the Uſe of Words may prove Contradictions 13 Inftance in Vacuum: 92
• They prove not the Exiftence of Things without us 15 Their Application dangerous about complex Ideas: 94
• 1618 Inftance in: 95
• Little Ufe of thefe Maxims in Proofs where we have clear and diftinct Ideas: 96
• Their Ufe dangerous where our Ideas are confuled SECT CHAP VIII: 97
• Secondly When a part of any complex Idea is predi cated of the whole 5 As part of the Definition of the defined: 101
• InftanceMan and Palfry: 102
• For this teaches but the Signification of Words: 103
• But no real Knowledge: 104
• Secondly A Part of the Definition predicated of: 107
• Something from Eternity: 113
• Whether in Motion or at Reſt: 119
• SECT: 132
• This may procure us Convenience not Science: 139
• CHAP XIII: 145
• Secondly Becauſe of obfcure and imperfect Ideas 11 Thirdly For want of intermediate Ideas: 181
• Fourthly Becauſe of wrong Principles 13 Fifthly Becauſe of doubtful Terms 14 Our higheſt Degree of Knowledge is intuitive without reafoning: 182
• The next is Demonftration by reafoning: 183
• To fupply the Narrownefs of this we have nothing but Judgment upon probable Reaſoning 17 Intuition Demonftration Judgment: 184
• Confequences of Words and Confequences of Ideas: 185
• Firſt Ad Verecundiam 20 Secondly Ad Ignorantiam 21 Thirdly Ad Hominem 22 Fourthly Ad Judicium: 186
• Above contrary and according to Reafon 24 Reafon and Faith not oppofite: 187
• SECT CHAP XVIII: 188
• Faith and Reafon what as contradiftinguiſhed: 189
• Traditional Revelation may make us know Propofi tions knowable alfo by Reaſon but not with the fame Certainty that Reafon doth: 191
• 810 First Doubtful Propofitions taken for Principles 11 Secondly Received Hypothefes: 214
• Thirdly Predominant Paffions: 217
• The Means of evading Probabilities ft Suppoſed Fallacy 14 zdly Suppofed Arguments for the contrary: 218
• What Probabilities determine the Affent: 219
• Where it is in our power to fufpend it 7 Fourthly Authority: 220
• Men not in fo many Errors as is imagined: 222
• Three forts 2 First Phyfica CHAP XXI: 223
• OF THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING: 227

Popular passages

Page xi - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call 'intuitive knowledge.

Page 64 - I would be understood to mean, that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding.

Page 97 - ... some motion must be thence continued by our nerves or animal spirits, by some parts of our bodies, to the brain or the seat of sensation, there to produce in our minds the particular ideas we have of them.

Page 190 - ... a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does muchwhat the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope.

Page 8 - From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of our own ideas.

Page 64 - ... got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning...

Page 80 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas.

Page 237 - ... harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided ; and, where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault either of the language or person 'that makes use of them.

Page 177 - I think it may not be amiss to take notice, that, however faith be opposed to reason, faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind ; which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to any thing but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it. He that believes without having any reason for believing, may be in love with his own fancies ; but neither seeks truth as he ought, nor pays the obedience due to his Maker...

Bibliographic information

• Title: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of Understanding ; Collated with Desmaizeaux's Ed. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author
• Author: John Locke
• Publisher: Mundell & Son, 1801
• Original from: the Complutense University of Madrid
• Digitized: May 5, 2008
• Length: 308 pages