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Author:   Samuel C. Rickless (University of California San Diego, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781405189354

ISBN 10:   1405189355
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   07 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

preface ix abbreviations xi 1 locke's life 1 2 the nature and role of ideas 13 3 the negative project: against innatism 23 4 the positive project: ideational empiricism 39 4.1 simple ideas 40 4.2 sensation and reflection 43 4.3 complex ideas 46 4.4 abstract ideas 56 4.5 challenges to ideational empiricism: the ideas of infinity and substratum 61 5 substances 70 5.1 body, matter, space, and vacuum 70 5.2 spirit 75 6 qualities 83 7 mental operations 98 7.1 actions and passions 98 7.2 will and willing 101 7.3 voluntariness and involuntariness 103 7.4 freedom, necessity, and determination of the will 104 7.5 a problem 110 8 relations 113 8.1 identity and diversity 114 8.2 moral relations 128 9 language 133 9.1 language and meaning 134 9.2 the imperfections and abuses of language 140 9.3 nominal essence, real essence, and classification 143 10 knowledge and belief 152 10.1 the official account of knowledge 152 10.2 the degrees of knowledge 156 10.3 anti-dogmatism and anti-skepticism 159 10.4 faith and religious enthusiasm 164 11 moral philosophy 169 11.1 morality and God's will 169 11.2 natural law 172 11.3 punishment and slavery 176 11.4 property 180 11.5 family 187 12 political philosophy 195 12.1 political society 196 12.2 legitimate rule 197 12.3 varieties of illegitimate rule 207 12.4 toleration 209 index 215

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Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. (Choice, 1 July 2015)

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Samuel C. Rickless is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of California, Los Angeles, before beginning his teaching career at Florida State University. The author of two books, Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides (2007), and Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism (2013), Professor Rickless has published numerous scholarly articles on a variety of topics in the history of philosophy, writing on key figures including Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, in addition to Locke. His research interests include normative ethics, constitutional law, and the philosophy of language.

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