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John Locke›An Essay Concerning Human Understanding›Full Text

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke · 1689

4 chapters · 632 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

Book I — Neither Principles nor Ideas are Innate

~127 min · 61 pages

Book II — Of Ideas

~589 min · 275 pages

Book III — Of Words

~256 min · 123 pages

Book IV — Of Knowledge and Probability

~364 min · 173 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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