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