IT is possible to appreciate the reason for this abridged edition of Locke's great Essay and at the same time ... it is certain, for it is human nature, that the reader will suspect that something ...

We know John Locke today as a social and political philosopher. In his “Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” he famously characterized the human mind at birth as a “blank slate.” ...

Liberty Fund Network. "The Works, vol. 1 An Essay concerning Human Understanding Part 1." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "John Locke." Locke, John. "Two Treatises of Government," Page 122.

In 1689, the English philosopher and physician John Locke published “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” in which he stated that the newborn mind is a “tabula rasa” – a blank slate. Locke was an ...