Locke

A Guide for the Perplexed
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8984-5
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 191 g

Reihe: Guides for the Perplexed

John Locke is a clear and lucid writer who wrote on many subjects and founded many new schools of thought. Yet, while his work is not impossible to read, his thought is sufficiently subtle, complex and intricate that he can be agonizingly hard to follow, presenting students of philosophy with a number of difficulties and challenges.

Locke: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Locke's philosophy, his major works and ideas, providing an ideal guide to the important and complex thought of this key philosopher. The book covers the whole range of Locke's philosophical work, offering a thematic review of his thought, together with detailed examination of his landmark text, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Locke's thought, the book provides a cogent and reliable survey of his life, political context and philosophical influences, and clearly and concisely reviews the competing interpretations of the Essay. This is the ideal companion to the study of this most influential and challenging of philosophers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheridan, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
i. Biography
1. Locke's Theory of Ideas
i. Book I: Locke’s argument against innate ideas
ii. Book II: Locke’s empiricist theory of ideas
iii. Complex Ideas
iv. Ideas and the veil of perception
v. Ideas of Primary Qualities
vi. Secondary Qualities
vii. Perception and Judgement
viii. Molyneux’s problem
ix. Locke’s Ethics of Belief
x. Error and the association of ideas
2. Locke's Theory of Matter
i. Substance and early-modern materialism
ii. Locke the ‘Underlabourer’
iii. Locke’s corpuscularian theory of substance
iv. Substratum
v. Scepticism in Locke’s theory of substance
vi. Natural Kinds and traditional classification
vii. Critical response to Locke’s theory of substance
3. Locke's Theory of Language
i. Sense and reference in Locke’s theory of ideas
ii. Constructivism and words
iii. Particular and General Names
iv. Remedies for the imperfection of language
4. Locke's Theory of Identity
i. Individuation and identity
ii. The conditions for identity
iii. Personal Identity
iv. Critical response to Locke’s account
v. The gaps in identity and Hume’s theory
5. Locke's Theory of Morality
i. The Significance of Morality in the Essay
ii. Locke’s Natural Law morality
iii. Locke’s moral rationalism
iv. Locke’s hedonism: reward and punishment
v. Motivation and the Will
vi. Suspension of the Will
vii. The Righteousness of Moral law
6. Locke's Theory of Knowledge
i. Locke’s Definition of Knowledge
ii. The degrees of knowledge
iii. Reality of knowledge
iv. Knowledge of substances
v. Judgment and Probable Knowledge
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Sheridan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. She recently edited The Philosophical Works of Catharine Trotter Cockburn (Broadview Press, 2006).