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"The great ocean of knowledge" : the influence of travel literature on the work of John Locke /
"The philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) owned one of the most extensive collections of travel literature held in any private scholarly library of his day. This interest seems very much at odds with Locke's standing as an empirical philosopher because travellers' reports have acquired...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 184. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two "Fit for our Imitation": Locke, Sagard and the Huron; Chapter Three Locke and the Lapland Witches; Chapter Four Merchants of Light: Locke and Utopia; Chapter Five Cannibalism and Absolutism; Chapter Six From "Stinging Swarms of Miseries" to a State of Equality and Freedom; Chapter Seven "Beyond the Smoke of their own Chimneys": Travel Literature and Innate Ideas; Chapter Eight Travel Literature in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.