An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
by John Locke
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ISBN13: 9780217166676
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: universally assented to; and the assent they so generally find, is no other than what several propositions, not allowed to be innate, equally partake in with them: and since the assent that is given them is produced another way, and comes not from natural inscription, as I doubt not but to make appear in the following discourse. And if these first principles of knowledge and science are found not to be innate, no other speculative maxims can (I suppose) with better right pretend to be so. CHAPTER III. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES. . 1. No moral principles so clear and so generally received as the forementioned speculative maxims.?If those speculative maxims, whereof we discoursed in the foregoing chapter, have not an actual universal assent from all mankind, as we there proved, it is much more visible concerning practical principles, that they come short of an universal reception: and I think it will be hard to instance any one moral rule which can pretend to so general and ready an assent as, what is, is; or to be so manifest a truth as this, that it is impossible for the same thing to be, and not to be. Whereby it is evident, that they are farther removed from a title to be innate; and the doubt of their being native impressions on the mind, is stronger against those moral principles than the other. Not that it brings their truth at all in question; they are equally true, though not equally evident. Those speculative maxims carry their own evidence with them; but moral principles require reasoning and discourse, and some exercise of the mind, to discover the certainty of their truth. They lie not open as natural characters engraven on the mind, which, if any such were, they must needs be visible by themselves, and by their own light, be certain and known to ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217166676 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217166679 |
| Weight | 1.98 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.37 In |
| List Price | $38.88 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 618 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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