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SUNY Oswego - Fall 2012 | ||
Section 800 | ||
The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion (Abridged Edition) by George Berkeley, David Hume, Etc. John Locke, John (Editor)/ B. Locke, Richard Taylor Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 1960 ISBN-10: 0-385-09622-4 / 0385096224 ISBN-13: 978-0-385-09622-5 / 9780385096225 The rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy's most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical--and fatal--conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke's Essay, Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume's Treatise strangled it with its own cinctu |