Essay on the origin of human knowledge /

This work, first published in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, is a highly influential work in the history of philosophy of mind and language, and anticipates Wittgenstein's views on language and its relation to mind and thought.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 1714-1780
Otros Autores: Aarsleff, Hans
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Colección:Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
Temas:
Psychology > Early works to 1850.
Knowledge, Theory of > Early works to 1800.
Language and languages > Philosophy > Early works to 1800.
Psychologie > Ouvrages avant 1850.
Théorie de la connaissance > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Langage et langues > Philosophie > Ouvrages avant 1800.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Psychology.
Kennistheorie.
Early works.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Cartesian dualism and language
  • Condillac and Locke
  • The title of Origin
  • Rhetorical expressivism
  • Condillac and signs
  • Did Condillac give too much to signs?
  • Inversions or the problem of word order
  • Condillac's sources
  • Wittgenstein
  • Chronology
  • Further reading
  • Note on the text and translation
  • Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge
  • Introduction
  • Part I The materials of our knowledge and especially the operations of the soulSection 1
  • 1 The materials of our knowledge and the distinction of soul and body
  • 2 Sensations
  • Section 2 Analysis and generation of the operations of the soul
  • 1 Preception, consciousness, attention, and reminiscence
  • 2 Imagination, contemplation, and memory
  • 3 How the connection of ideas, formed by attention, brings forth imagination, contemplation, and memory
  • 4 The use of sings is the true cause of the progress of imagination, contemplation, and memory
  • 5 Reflection
  • 6 Operations that consist in distinguishing, abstracting, comparing, compounding, and decompounding our ideas7 Digression on the origin of principles and of the operation that consists in analysis
  • 8 Affirming. Denying. Judging. Reasoning. Conceiving. The understanding
  • 9 Defects and advantages of the imagination
  • 10 The source of the charms that imagination gives to truth
  • 11 On reason and on intellect and its different aspects
  • Section 3 Simple and complex ideas
  • Section 4
  • 1 The operation by which we give signs to our ideas
  • 2 Facts that confirm what was proved in the previous chapterSection 5 Abstractions
  • Section 6 Some judgments that have been erroneously attributed to the mind, or the solution of a metaphysical problem
  • Part II Language and method
  • Section 1 The origin and progress of language
  • 1 The language of action and that of articulated sounds considered from their point of origin
  • 2 The prosody of the first languages
  • 3 The prosody of the Greek and Latin languages and, en passant, the declamation of the ancients
  • 4 Progress of the art of gesture among the ancients
  • 5 Music6 Musical and plain declamation compared
  • 7 Which is the most perfect prosody?
  • 8 The origin of poetry
  • 9 Words
  • 10 The same subject continued
  • 11 The signification of words
  • 12 Inversions
  • 13 Writing
  • 14 Origin of the fable, the parable, and the enigma, with some details about the use of figures and metaphors
  • 15 The genius of languages
  • Section 2 Method
  • 1 The first cause of our errors and the origin of truth
  • 2 The manner of determining ideas or their names
  • 3 The order we ought to follow in the search for truth

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