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This volume provides the first complete edition of the third and final surviving draft of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, dating from 1685, four years before the publication of the Essay itself (December 1689). There is a General Introduction that gives a detailed account of the content and circumstances of composition of this draft, and a Textual Introduction that provides a full description of the manuscript and its history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- General Introduction
- Work on the Essay, 1672-1683
- Writing the Essay, 1683-1689
- Draft C of the Essay
- Textual Introduction
- The History and Description of the Text
- The Transcription of the Manuscript
- Draft C of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Book I
- I: [untitled]
- II: No Innate Speculative Principles
- III: No Innate Practical Principles
- IV: Other Considerations about Innate Principles, both Speculative and Practical
- Book II
- I: Of the Original of our Ideas
- II: Of Simple Ideas
- III: Of Ideas of one Sense
- IV: Of Simple Ideas by more than one Sense
- V: Of Simple Ideas of Reflection
- VI: Of Ideas both of Sensation and Reflection
- VII: Some Farther Considerations of our Simple Ideas
- VIII: Of Perception
- IX: Of Retention
- X: Of Discerning
- XI: Of Comparing
- XII: Of Composition
- XIII: Of Denomination and Abstraction
- XIV: Of Simple and Complex Ideas
- XV: Of Simple and Mixed Modes
- XVI: Of Space and the Simple Modes of it
- XVII: Of Duration and its Simple Modes
- XVIII: Duration and Expansion considered together
- XIX: Of Number
- XX: Of Infinity
- XXI: Of Solidity
- XXII: Of other Simple Modes
- XXIII: Of the Simple Modes of Thinking
- XXIV: Of the Modes of Pleasure and Pain
- XXV: Of Power
- XXVI: Of Complex or Mixed Modes
- XXVII: Of the Complex Ideas of Substances
- XXVIII: Of Collective Ideas of Substances
- XXIX: Of Relation
- XXX: Of the Relation of Cause and Effect, and some others
- XXXI: Of Other Relations
- XXXII: Of Clear and Distinct, Obscure and Confused Ideas
- XXXIII: Of Real and Phantastical, Adequate and Inadequate Ideas
- Appendices
- I: Parallel Passages in Drafts A and B, in Draft C, and in the First Edition of the Essay
- II: Passages in Drafts A and B that were re-used in Draft C
- III: Passages in the First Edition of the Essay not present in Draft C
- IV: Passages in Locke's journal re-used in Book IV of the Essay
Über den Autor / die Autorin
J. R. Milton was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and at Balliol College, Oxford. He taught at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, and at King's College London, where he was Professor of the History of Philosophy until his retirement in 2014. He has published widely on the history of philosophy in the early modern period, with particular emphasis on the life and writings of John Locke. He is currently General Editor of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke.
G. A. J. Rogers is Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy at Keele University. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton, and the University of Nottingham, before graduate study at St Catherine's College, Oxford, with Gilbert Ryle, Rom Harré, and David Pears, and a PhD at Keele University with Antony Flew. He was appointed lecturer at Keele in 1972 and remained there for his whole career except for two research fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the co-editor of Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume I: Drafts A and B (1990), for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. Drafts A and B, for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke (1990).
Zusammenfassung
This volume provides the first complete edition of the third and final surviving draft of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, a landmark work in modern philosophy. Milton and Rogers offer a detailed account of the content and circumstances of composition of this draft, and a full description of the manuscript and its history.
