W. R. Sorley

John Locke By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy

From The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 8, Published

Contents

1. Locke the Most Important Figure in English Philosophy
2. His Personal and Literary Life
3. Controversy with Stillingfleet
4. The “New Way of Ideas” Opened by Locke
5. Plan of An Essay concerning Human Understanding
6. Locke’s Doctrine of Knowledge
7. Its Nature and Extent
8. “The Twilight of Probability.” Two Treatises of Government
9. Economic Writings
10. Economists Contemporary with Locke: Sir William Petty
11. Letters concerning Toleration
12. Earlier Pleas
13. Locke’s Views on Church and State
14. Thoughts concerning Education; Locke’s Theory
15. His Critics and Followers
16. Richard Burthogge
17. John Norris and his Ideal World