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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

by John Locke

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...[T]he modern philosophers mostly consider thought as a function of our material organisaion; and Locke paticularly among them charges with blasphemy those who deny that Omnipotence could give the faculty of thinking to certain combinations of matter.
--Letter to August B Woodward, March 24, 1824

[Locke, Bacon and Newton are] "the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception."
- Letter to John Trumbull, Feb. 15, 1789
  ThomasJefferson | Dec 30, 2007 |
The founder of modern epistemology. Not to be confused with the bald guy on "Lost".
  Makifat | Dec 19, 2007 |
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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0140434828, Paperback)

Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) withstood an onslaught by traditional theologians, for rejecting orthodox theology and the concept of innate ideas: as he suggested that God could make matter think. The Essay quickly became one of the most influential books of the eighteenth century, and its contributions to the philosophy of space and time, matter and power were quickly hailed as formative contributions to the philosophy.

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