Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge
Etienne Bonnot De Condillac, Hans Aarsleff
Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on ideas; Condillac turned this upside down by arguing that speech and words are the origin of mental life and knowledge. His work influenced many later philosophers, and also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language and its relation to mind and thought.
Κατηγορίες:
Έτος:
2001
Εκδότης:
Cambridge University Press
Γλώσσα:
english
Σελίδες:
225
ISBN 10:
0521585767
ISBN 13:
9780521585767
Σειρές:
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Αρχείο:
PDF, 996 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2001