English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries : Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Part 37 Harvard Classics

John Locke

ISBN 10: 0766181901 / ISBN 13: 9780766181908

Edité par Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004

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• Titre: English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries : Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Part 37 Harvard Classics
• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0766181901
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780766181908
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 26 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 26 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 729 grammes

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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John Locke was born near Bristol, England, on August 29,1632; and was educated at Westminster School, where Dryden was his contemporary, and at Christ Church, Oxford. Of the discipline then in vogue in either institution, the future educational theorist had no high opinion, as may be gathered from allusions in the present treatise; yet, after taking his masters degree in i6s8, he became tutor of his college, and lecturer in Greek and rhetoric. After a visit to the Continent in 1665, as secretary to an embassy, he returned to Oxford and took up the study of medicine. He became attached, as friend and physician, to Lord A shley, afterward the first Earl of Shaftesbury; and while this nobleman was Lord Chancellor, Locke held the office of Secretary of Presentations, Shaftesbury went out of office in 1673, and two years later Locke went to France in search of health, supporting himself by acting as tutor to the son of Sir John Banks, and as physician to the wife of th English Ambassador at Paris. In 1679, Shaftesbury, being again in power, recalled Locke to England, He reluctantly obeyed, and remained in attendance on his patron, assisting him in political matters and superintending the education of his grandson, the future author of Characteristics, till Shaftesbury spolitical fortunes finally collapsed, and both men took refuge in Holland, Locke sfirst two years in Holland were spent in traveling and in intercourse with scholars; but in 168$ the Dutch Government was asked to deliver him up to the English as a traitor, and he was forced to go into hiding till a pardon was granted by James II in 1686, though there is no evidence of his having been guilty of any crime beyond his friendship with Shaftesbury. It was not till now, at the age of fifty-four, that Locke began to publish the results of a lifetime of study and thought. An epitome of his great Essay Conce
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