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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1

by John Locke (1632–1704)

37 chapters, about 147,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. CONTENTS 300 words
2. MY LORD, 600 words
3. READER, 5,200 words
4. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. 1,900 words
5. CHAPTER II. NO INNATE SPECULATIVE PRINCIPLES. 7,500 words
6. CHAPTER III. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES 15,600 words
7. CHAPTER I. OF IDEAS IN GENERAL, AND THEIR ORIGINAL. 6,100 words
8. CHAPTER II. OF SIMPLE IDEAS. 800 words
9. CHAPTER III. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSE. 600 words
10. CHAPTER IV. IDEA OF SOLIDITY. 1,900 words
11. CHAPTER VI. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF REFLECTION. 200 words
12. CHAPTER VII. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF BOTH SENSATION AND REFLECTION. 5,900 words
13. CHAPTER IX. OF PERCEPTION. 2,700 words
14. CHAPTER X. OF RETENTION. 2,400 words
15. CHAPTER XI. OF DISCERNING, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE MIND. 3,000 words
16. CHAPTER XII. OF COMPLEX IDEAS. 6,800 words
17. CHAPTER XIV. IDEA OF DURATION AND ITS SIMPLE MODES. 6,500 words
18. CHAPTER XV. IDEAS OF DURATION AND EXPANSION, CONSIDERED TOGETHER. 3,300 words
19. CHAPTER XVI. IDEA OF NUMBER. 1,800 words
20. CHAPTER XVII. OF INFINITY. 6,100 words
21. CHAPTER XVIII. OTHER SIMPLE MODES. 1,100 words
22. CHAPTER XIX. OF THE MODES OF THINKING. 1,000 words
23. CHAPTER XX. OF MODES OF PLEASURE AND PAIN. 1,700 words
24. CHAPTER XXI. OF POWER. 18,800 words
25. CHAPTER XXII. OF MIXED MODES. 2,900 words
26. CHAPTER XXIII. OF OUR COMPLEX IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES. 9,300 words
27. CHAPTER XXIV. OF COLLECTIVE IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES. 500 words
28. CHAPTER XXV. OF RELATION. 1,900 words
29. CHAPTER XXVI. OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND OTHER RELATIONS. 1,600 words
30. CHAPTER XXVII. OF IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY. 6,000 words
31. 24. 2,000 words
32. CHAPTER XXVIII. OF OTHER RELATIONS. 5,000 words
33. CHAPTER XXIX. OF CLEAR AND OBSCURE, DISTINCT AND CONFUSED IDEAS. 4,000 words
34. CHAPTER XXX. OF REAL AND FANTASTICAL IDEAS. 1,100 words
35. CHAPTER XXXI. OF ADEQUATE AND INADEQUATE IDEAS. 4,000 words
36. CHAPTER XXXII. OF TRUE AND FALSE IDEAS. 4,000 words
37. CHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS. 3,100 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Action (philosophy)
• Essay
• Essence
• Extension (metaphysics)
• God
• Idea
• Identity (social science)
• Infinity
• Infinity (philosophy)
• Mind
• Mockery
• Pain
• Perception
• Personal identity
• Pleasure
• Principle
• Proposition
• Reason
• Relation (mathematics)
• Relation (philosophy)
• Self
• Vacuum
• Vice
• Will (philosophy)

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