An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, credited to John Locke, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding by John Locke. Read by LibriVox Volunteers John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes the notion of innate ideas and argues against a number of propositions that rationalists offer as universally accepted truth. In the second book Locke elaborates the role played by sensation, reflection, perception and retention in giving rise to simple ideas. Then he elaborates on how different modes, substances and relations of simple ideas (of the same kind) give rise to complex ideas v.g. space, time, infinity etc. Finally he discusses complex ideas of mixed modes which arise from a combination of simple ideas of different kinds v.g. identity and diversity, cause and effect, etc. (Summary by bala)

Recording facts

• Recording title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
• Author credits: John Locke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 17:23:36

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Introduction. — 14:38
2. 01 - No innate speculative principles. Part I — 28:34
3. 02 - No innate speculative principles. Part II — 29:12
4. 03 - No innate practical principles. Part I — 35:18
5. 04 - No innate practical principles. Part II — 31:02
6. 05 - Other considerations concerning innate principles, both speculative and practical. Part I — 30:59
7. 06 - Other considerations concerning innate principles, both speculative and practical. Part II — 30:58
8. 07 - Of ideas in general, and their original. Part I — 22:55
9. 08 - Of ideas in general, and their original. Part II — 22:02
10. 09 - Of simple ideas \ — 26:09
11. 10 - Of simple ideas of divers senses \ — 16:17
12. 11 - Some further considerations concerning our simple ideas of sensation — 35:48
13. 12 - Of perception — 22:09
14. 13 - Of retention — 15:52
15. 14 - Of discerning, and other operations of the mind — 24:44
16. 15 - Of complex ideas — 7:58
17. 16 - Of simple modes:—and first, of the simple modes of the idea of space Part I — 25:04
18. 17 - Of simple modes:—and first, of the simple modes of the idea of space Part II — 23:38
19. 18 - Idea of duration and its simple modes Part I — 17:24
20. 19 - Idea of duration and its simple modes Part II — 17:07
21. 20 - Ideas of duration and expansion, considered together — 17:45
22. 21 - Idea of number and its simple modes — 14:12
23. 22 - Of the idea of infinity Part I — 22:01
24. 23 - Of the idea of infinity Part II — 20:15

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