Locke
Blackwell Great Minds
1. Auflage Mai 2014
238 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
This vital addition to the Blackwell Great Minds series offers a focused assessment of the fundamental principles of a giant of the western tradition in philosophical thought. The book covers every aspect of the thinker whose matchless mental agility fatally undermined the medieval absolutism of divine-right patriarchy. This includes detailed analyses of Locke's most influential works, including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and The Two Treatises of Government, and ranges across his complete conceptual landscape, from his notions of personal identity and free will, to his advocacy of the right of revolution.
In a focused assessment of one of the founding members of the liberal tradition in philosophy and a self-proclaimed "Under-Labourer" working to support the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the author maps the full range of John Locke's highly influential ideas, which even today remain at the heart of debates about the nature of reality and our knowledge of it, as well as our moral and political rights and duties.
* Comprehensive introduction to the full range of Locke's ideas, providing an up-to-date account that acknowledges issues raised by recent scholarship over the past decade
* A well-rounded perspective on one of the intellectual giants of the western philosophical tradition
* Provides detailed coverage of Locke's two key works, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and The Two Treatises of Government.
* A sophisticated analysis by a highly respected academic
* A vital addition to the Blackwell Great Minds series
abbreviations xi
1 locke's life 1
2 the nature and role of ideas 13
3 the negative project: against innatism 23
4 the positive project: ideational empiricism 39
4.1 simple ideas 40
4.2 sensation and reflection 43
4.3 complex ideas 46
4.4 abstract ideas 56
4.5 challenges to ideational empiricism: the ideas of infinity and substratum 61
5 substances 70
5.1 body, matter, space, and vacuum 70
5.2 spirit 75
6 qualities 83
7 mental operations 98
7.1 actions and passions 98
7.2 will and willing 101
7.3 voluntariness and involuntariness 103
7.4 freedom, necessity, and determination of the will 104
7.5 a problem 110
8 relations 113
8.1 identity and diversity 114
8.2 moral relations 128
9 language 133
9.1 language and meaning 134
9.2 the imperfections and abuses of language 140
9.3 nominal essence, real essence, and classification 143
10 knowledge and belief 152
10.1 the official account of knowledge 152
10.2 the degrees of knowledge 156
10.3 anti-dogmatism and anti-skepticism 159
10.4 faith and religious enthusiasm 164
11 moral philosophy 169
11.1 morality and God's will 169
11.2 natural law 172
11.3 punishment and slavery 176
11.4 property 180
11.5 family 187
12 political philosophy 195
12.1 political society 196
12.2 legitimate rule 197
12.3 varieties of illegitimate rule 207
12.4 toleration 209
index 215
