John Locke - En Essay Concerning Human Understanding in Focus

Informationen zum Autor Gary Fuller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University. Robert Stecker is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University and author of Artworks: Definition, Meaning, Value (1997). John P. Wright is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University and co-editor of Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind/Body Problem (forthcoming 2000). Klappentext John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is among the most important books in philosophy ever written. It is also a difficult work dealing with many themes, including the origin of ideas; the extent and limits of human knowledge; the philosophy of perception; and religion and morality. This volume is original in that it focuses on the last two of these topics and provides a clear and insightful survey of these overlooked aspects of Locke's best known work. Four eminent Locke scholars present authoritative discussions of Locke's view on the ethics of belief, personal identity, free will and moral theory. Contributors include John Passmore (Australian National University), Harold Noonan (Birmingham University), Vere Chappell (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and Daniel Flage (James Madison University). Zusammenfassung Focusing on the themes of religion and morality within this seminal Essay by Locke, the distinguished contributors collected in this volume explore his views on the ethics of belief, personal identity, free will and moral theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction  Gary Fuller, Robert Stecker and John P. Wright Selections from Locke's Essay: Epistle to the Reader Book 1: Of Innate Notions Book 2: Of Ideas Book 3: Of Words Book 4: Of Knowledge and Probability  Locke and the Ethics of Belief  John Passmore  Locke on Personal Identity Harold W. Noonan  Locke on the Suspense of Desire Vere Chappell Locke and Natural Law  Daniel E. Flage Select Bibliography Index...

Product details

• Authors: Gary Fuller, Gary Stecker Fuller
• Assisted by: Gary Fuller (Editor), Fuller Gary (Editor), Robert Stecker (Editor), Stecker Robert (Editor), John P. Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2000
• EAN: 9780415141901
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14190-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Routledge Philosophers in Focu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Perception, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, RELIGION / Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge