An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I


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(2.5 stars; 15 reviews)

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) (17 hr 23 min)

Chapitres

Introduction. 14:38 Lu par bala
No innate speculative principles. Part I 28:34 Lu par bala
No innate speculative principles. Part II 29:13 Lu par bala
No innate practical principles. Part I 35:18 Lu par Malone
No innate practical principles. Part II 31:02 Lu par Malone
Other considerations concerning innate principles, both speculative and practic… 30:59 Lu par Malone
Other considerations concerning innate principles, both speculative and practic… 30:58 Lu par Malone
Of ideas in general, and their original. Part I 22:55 Lu par bala
Of ideas in general, and their original. Part II 22:02 Lu par bala
Of simple ideas ; of simple ideas of sense ; idea of solidity. 26:09 Lu par Malone
Of simple ideas of divers senses ; Of simple ideas of reflection; Of simple i… 16:17 Lu par Malone
Some further considerations concerning our simple ideas of sensation 35:48 Lu par Malone
Of perception 22:09 Lu par Malone
Of retention 15:52 Lu par Lynne T
Of discerning, and other operations of the mind 24:44 Lu par Malone
Of complex ideas 7:58 Lu par Diana Majlinger
Of simple modes:—and first, of the simple modes of the idea of space Part I 25:04 Lu par Malone
Of simple modes:—and first, of the simple modes of the idea of space Part II 23:38 Lu par Malone
Idea of duration and its simple modes Part I 17:24 Lu par Jeremy Robertson
Idea of duration and its simple modes Part II 17:07 Lu par Jeremy Robertson
Ideas of duration and expansion, considered together 17:45 Lu par Jeremy Robertson
Idea of number and its simple modes 14:12 Lu par bala
Of the idea of infinity Part I 22:01 Lu par bala
Of the idea of infinity Part II 20:15 Lu par bala
Of other simple modes; of the modes of thinking ; of modes of pleasure and pain 32:01 Lu par Malone
Of the idea of power Part I 32:24 Lu par bala
Of the idea of power Part II 32:23 Lu par bala
Of the idea of power Part III 34:10 Lu par bala
Of the idea of power Part IV 32:58 Lu par bala
Of mixed modes 20:33 Lu par doonaboon
Of our complex ideas of substances Part I 30:13 Lu par dsilber01
Of our complex ideas of substances Part II 30:41 Lu par dsilber01
Of collective ideas of substances; of ideas of relation; of ideas of cause and … 27:13 Lu par dsilber01
Of ideas of identity and diversity Part I 23:39 Lu par Jessica Louise
Of ideas of identity and diversity Part II 25:58 Lu par Kathryn Louise
Of ideas of other relations 37:55 Lu par bala
Of clear and obscure, distinct and confused ideas 33:30 Lu par Malone
Of real and fantastical ideas 6:59 Lu par Savannah
Of adequate and inadequate ideas 33:11 Lu par Malone
Of true and false ideas 37:32 Lu par Malone
Of the association of ideas 20:14 Lu par Rapunzelina

Critiques

Don't understand reader


(0.5 stars)

If it is going to be read in English it needs to be understood so that people who don't speak English can understand. Bad app if they let volunteers who read poorly.


(1 stars)

Terrible. Readers with Indian accent are virtually unintelligible. The prose is difficult enough without audio in broken English!

Strong Indian accent. And J. Lockes comma use.


(3 stars)

The readers have a strong Indian accent. But that isn't a real problem. For me it was easy to get used to. The accent is not what makes the text hard to follow. It's John Locke's use of comma's. This makes the sentences complex. This also makes it hard to read it out loud, while keeping the right intonation at the right moment in the sentence. Even for a native speaker.

Not even worth listening to.


(1 stars)

The reader has such a hard Indian accent that the recording becomes utterly useless and yet another obvious lack of respect and care for Western civilisation (the only one I might add).