--- product_id: 12706790 title: "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Penguin Classics)" price: "COP 166909" currency: COP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co/products/12706790-an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-penguin-classics store_origin: CO region: Colombia --- # An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Penguin Classics) **Price:** COP 166909 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Penguin Classics) - **How much does it cost?** COP 166909 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co](https://www.desertcart.co/products/12706790-an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-penguin-classics) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate in us, Locke argues that it derives from sense perceptions and experience, as analysed and developed by reason. While defending these central claims with vigorous common sense, Locke offers many incidental - and highly influential - reflections on space and time, meaning, free will and personal identity. The result is a powerful, pioneering work, which, together with Descartes's works, largely set the agenda for modern philosophy. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Review: College text - This book is a required read for most philosophy programs across the country for both undergraduate and graduate studies. If you're not in a college class where you can find other minds to chew this with I would recommend reading journal articles or other writings from philosophers that responded in some way to the premise this author is putting forth. Review: Never thought I'd read John Locke - The actual review is this delightful 'warning' that you will be reading this volume for the rest of your life without having finished it. It is user friendly. Anyone who can read will be able to read this book. But more: It's substance is fully contemporary. A very good read. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #104,749 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #58 in Epistemology Philosophy #150 in Modern Western Philosophy #200 in Philosophy Movements (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 282 Reviews | ## Images ![An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Penguin Classics) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71CTqeZ7nfL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ College text *by M***S on February 4, 2012* This book is a required read for most philosophy programs across the country for both undergraduate and graduate studies. If you're not in a college class where you can find other minds to chew this with I would recommend reading journal articles or other writings from philosophers that responded in some way to the premise this author is putting forth. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Never thought I'd read John Locke *by J***T on September 8, 2013* The actual review is this delightful 'warning' that you will be reading this volume for the rest of your life without having finished it. It is user friendly. Anyone who can read will be able to read this book. But more: It's substance is fully contemporary. A very good read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating comments on infinity. Otherwise too much waffle. *by A***N on January 28, 2018* This must be a very good book because it's very famous and very long. The best bit of this book is the chapter on infinity, I think. (Pages 145-155.) But it has no editorial introduction to give the book context, and the syntax is tricky to understand unless you're familiar with regional British English. It's long-winded and repetitive, and the subject matter is of no great consequence. The infinity chapter gives an excellent explanation of the issues surrounding infinity-related concepts. It's highly relevant to mathematicians who might want to understand why there's any difficulty. Nowadays, mathematics is full of infinities, without philosophical discussion. In Locke's day, this subject was still controversial. Concerning the lack of editorial introduction, there isn't even a basic outline of the publication history. So I don't know which edition this is. Apparently Locke's "Essay concerning human understanding" was first outlined in a 1688 publication. (See page xvii.) Then one other source (not this book) tells me that there were 4 editions in Locke's lifetime, the first two being in 1689 and 1694. Another source says 1690, 1694, 1695 and 1700. But page 15 of this book mentions a ninth edition, upon which this publication is apparently based. On page xx, the author's foreword states that this is the 6th edition. So it's anyone's guess whether this is an edition which Locke saw, or whether it is some later adaptation. The date of publication matters because one naturally wishes to compare the ideas in a book with the ideas in other books around that time, to evaluate influences etc. This book was written in the time of Boyle and Newton. (See page xvi.) If you're not a native speaker of British English, with some familiarity with regional variations in sentence structure, you might have difficulties with this book. Often the conjunctions or prepositions are omitted, as one might do in regional spoken English. Very often, I had to re-read sentences to determine where the clauses started and ended. This makes the reading a little tiring. The text is interspersed with some kind of a flame-war with some trolling Bishop who seemed to know nothing about Locke's subject. These pointless responses to pointless open letters are not a really good use of paper. The author must have been very rich to afford to include so much waffle along with the main text. All in all, I think this is the kind of book you really should buy and put on your shelf for historical reasons. I wouldn't recommend actually reading it. It's a big book at a low price. 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