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Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Library / Text
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Locke · 1689
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Study guide
The full study guide for this topic is being prepared. Meanwhile, here is the curator's guide below.
Curator's notes
- Why it matters
- Natural rights to life, liberty, property; government by consent. The mind as a blank slate shaped by experience.
- Use in training and coaching
- Learning from experience; consent-based leadership
- Connects to
- Hobbes; Jefferson; behaviourism
- What to read
- Treatise ch. 2, 5, 9; Essay Book 2 ch. 1
- Text (date)
- Locke, Second Treatise of Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
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