John Locke

Broschiertes Buch

Locke

Political Essays

Herausgeber: Goldie, Mark; Geuss, Raymond

Beschreibung

This is a comprehensive collection of essays on politics and society by one of the greatest philosophers in the western tradition. It will be essential reading for all students and scholars interested in John Locke and in the politics, philosophy and the history of early modern Britain.

Autor

John Locke (29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American Revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. Internationally, Locke's political-legal principles continue to have a profound influence on the theory and practice of limited representative government and the protection of basic rights and freedoms under the rule of law.Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness.He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate, or tabula rasa. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception, a concept now known as empiricism.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780521478618
• ISBN-10: 0521478618
• Artikelnr.: 21467290