Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge

Etienne Bonnot De Condillac, Edited and translated by Hans Aarsleff

ISBN 10: 0521585767 / ISBN 13: 9780521585767

Edité par Cambridge Univ Pr, 2001

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274 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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• Titre: Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge
• Éditeur: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521585767
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521585767
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Brand New
• Poids: 0,45 kilogramme

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Synopsis

Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on ideas; Condillac turned this upside down by arguing that speech and words are the origin of mental life and knowledge. He argued, further, that language has its origin in human interaction and in our natural capacity to react spontaneously and instinctively to the expression of emotions and states of mind in others. The importance of this pointedly anti-Cartesian view, and its relevance to both aesthetics and epistemology, were quickly understood, and Condillac's work influenced many later philosophers including Herder, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. His conception also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language, its usage, and its relation to mind and thought.

À propos de l?auteur

Hans Aarsleff is Professor of English, Emeritus, Princeton University.