Locke

Samuel C. Rickless is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of California, Los Angeles, before beginning his teaching career at Florida State University. The author of two books, Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides (2007), and Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism (2013), Professor Rickless has published numerous scholarly articles on a variety of topics in the history of philosophy, writing on key figures including Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, in addition to Locke. His research interests include normative ethics, constitutional law, and the philosophy of language.

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• preface ix abbreviations xi1 locke's life 12 the nature and role of ideas 133 the negative project: against innatism 234 the positive project: ideational empiricism 394.1 simple ideas 404.2 sensation and reflection 434.3 complex ideas 464.4 abstract ideas 564.5 challenges to ideational empiricism: the ideas of infinity and substratum 615 substances 705.1 body, matter, space, and vacuum 705.2 spirit 756 qualities 837 mental operations 987.1 actions and passions 987.2 will and willing 1017.3 voluntariness and involuntariness 1037.4 freedom, necessity, and determination of the will 1047.5 a problem 1108 relations 1138.1 identity and diversity 1148.2 moral relations 1289 language 1339.1 language and meaning 1349.2 the imperfections and abuses of language 1409.3 nominal essence, real essence, and classification 14310 knowledge and belief 15210.1 the official account of knowledge 15210.2 the degrees of knowledge 15610.3 anti-dogmatism and anti-skepticism 15910.4 faith and religious enthusiasm 16411 moral philosophy 16911.1 morality and God's will 16911.2 natural law 17211.3 punishment and slavery 17611.4 property 18011.5 family 18712 political philosophy 19512.1 political society 19612.2 legitimate rule 19712.3 varieties of illegitimate rule 20712.4 toleration 209index 215