Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke.
Hume made a strong and influential argument against the likelihood of miracles, which he published in 1748 as part of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The essence of his argument was that we should assign probabilities to events in accordance with the amount of empirical evidence that supports them. He reasoned that there was an overwhelming amount of empirical evidence for the.
John Locke (1632-1704) British Philosopher wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), defended empiricism and examined the limits of human understanding, part of Glorious Revolution; started idea of natural rights, social contract, and humanity having a divine purpose; Francis Bacon and Renee Descartes (1561-1626), (1596-1650).
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Publication of Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, A Letter Concerning Toleration, and anonymous publication of his Two Treatises of Government. 1690: Publication of John Norris’s Reflections Upon the Conduct of Human Life.Norris dedicates the work to Masham, but erroneously states in the dedication that she has gone blind.
But Locke's influence may have been even more profound in the realm of epistemology. Locke redefined subjectivity, or self, and intellectual historians such as Charles Taylor and Jerrold Seigel argue that Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) marks the beginning of the modern Western conception of the self.(21)(22).