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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II

John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book:

"I see no reason to believe, that the soul thinks before the senses have furnished it with ideas to think on. The dreams of sleeping men are, as I take it, all made up of the waking man's ideas, though for the most part oddly put together. Can the soul think, and not the man, or a man think, and not be conscious of it? Suppose the soul of Castor separated, during his sleep, from his body, to think apart. Let us suppose too, that it chooses for its scene of thinking the body of another man, v. g. Pollux, who is sleeping without a soul. Nobody can imagine that his soul can think, or move a body at Oxford, whilst he is at London. The question is, whether if the same substance which thinks, be changed, it can be the same person; or, remaining the same, it can be different persons? Whiteness and coldness are no more in snow than pain is."

John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. The first and second have been recorded into LibriVox. This recording is a repetition of the second of Locke's Essays. All of his essays were, and are, very influential. Edward Stillingfleet 1635-1699 (Bishop of Worcester) wrote a Critique of Locke’s ideas and many letters to him. Locke’s Essays inspired Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) to write his New Essays Concerning Human Understanding and Victor Cousin analyzed all four books in his 1834 Elements of Psychology. - Summary by Craig Campbell

Year of Publication: 1812Genres: Psychology , Religion , Education , Philosophy

Running Time: 14 hours 39 minutes 36 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Chapter 1 Of Ideas in general, and their Original Pamela Nagami	40:00
2	Chapters 2-7 Of Simple Ideas, Of Ideas of one Sense, Of Solidity, Of Simple Ideas of diverse Senses, Of Simple Ideas of Reflection, Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection franklinvios	32:58
3	Chapter 8 Some farther Considerations concerning our Simple Ideas Brian C. Rideout	27:16
4	Chapter 9 Of Perception garybclayton	15:33
5	Chapter 10 Of Retention garybclayton	14:32
6	Chapter 11 Of Discerning, and other Operations of the Mind garybclayton	18:11
7	Chapter 12 Of Complex Ideas garybclayton	8:39
8	Chapter 13 Of Simple Modes, and first of the Simple Modes of Space Patrick Munoz	34:05
9	Chapter 14 Of Duration, and its simple Modes Patrick Munoz	35:50
10	Chapter 15 Of Duration and Expansion, considered together enz2103	32:54
11	Chapter16 Of Number Joseph	11:22
12	Chapter 17 Of Infinity Craig Campbell	44:25
13	Chapters 18-19 Of Other Simple Modes, Of the Modes of Thinking Larry Wilson	13:38
14	Chapter 20 Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain Craig Campbell	13:10
15	Chapter 21 Of Power Part 1 ChadH94	28:21
16	Chapter 21 Of Power Part 2 ChadH94	46:07
17	Chapter 21 Of Power Part 3 ChadH94	45:50
18	Chapter 21 Of Power Part 4 ChadH94	32:03
19	Chapter 22-Of Mixed Modes franklinvios	18:58
20	Chapter 23 Of our complex Ideas of Substances Part 1 realisticspeakers	27:05
21	Chapter 23 Of our complex Ideas of Substances Part 2 realisticspeakers	41:34
22	Chapters 24-26 Of Collective Ideas of Substances, Of Relation, Of Cause and Effect and other Relations enz2103	33:37
23	Chapter 27 Of Identity and Diversity Part 1 garybclayton	33:09
24	Chapter 27 Of Identity and Diversity Part 2 garybclayton	19:02
25	Chapter 27 Footnote: Locke discusses the Bishop of Worchester Part 1 garybclayton	42:32
26	Chapter 27 Footnote: Locke discusses the Bishop of Worchester Part 2 garybclayton	32:30
27	Chapter 28 Of Moral Relations Kathleen Nelson	30:07
28	Chapter 29 Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas Leon	24:01
29	Chapter 30 Of Real and Fantastical Ideas Mayah	9:55
30	Chapter 31 Of adequate and inadequate Ideas Ryan Bassette	24:33
31	Chapter 32 Of True and False Ideas Ryan Bassette	26:24
32	Chapter 33 Of the Association of Ideas ChadH94	21:15