John Locke

Author: [British] A. L. Rowan, translated by Chen Huiqin
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Publishing Date: 2003-03-01
Features: The third edition has undergone significant changes. The main text has undergone very few changes, with only some minor necessary revisions. Additional footnotes have been added to introduce developments after 1955 to the readers, and the bibliography lists references up to the present. The new additions mainly consist of several appendices, all published after the second edition in 1955, but Appendix I can also be found in the editions of this book printed in 1963 and later. Appendix II was written by Dr. Charlotte Johnston, aiming to clarify the confusion between the two versions of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Appendix III was co-authored by Dr. Philip Walters and myself, discussing Locke's views on numbers. In Appendix IV, I examine Locke's rationalism and its limits. In the final Appendix V, I provide some notes on several important works on Locke's political philosophy since World War II. The bibliography has also been expanded. I am grateful to my wife for helping me prepare this new edition, to Dr. Charlotte Johnston and Dr. Philip Walters for their collaboration, to Dr. D. O. Thomas for his many fruitful discussions on Locke's political philosophy, and to Mr. Ian Tipton for his discussions on experience and empiricists. These individuals are all colleagues of mine at Aberystwyth, so some of the new material is a product of our department. I also need to thank the editor of The Philosophical Quarterly, Professor H. D. Acton, for allowing me to republish certain passages from an article on numbers that I published in the July 1965 issue of the journal, as well as the Oxford University Press for granting me permission to republish parts of an article I wrote for the Studi di Storia della Filosofia Umanistica in 1938.
R. I. A. Rowan
Garside, Aberystwyth
Midsummer 1970
John Locke is a book on the study of philosophical thought. It primarily uses a significant portion of its content to evaluate the various difficulties in Locke's philosophical masterpiece An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, providing detailed elaborations on the origins, expressions, and other aspects of each issue.