Essai philosophique concernant l'entendement humain

Présente la première traduction française de l'essai de Locke dans le contexte du débat qui l'opposait aux "innéistes", aux "enthousiastes" et à Hobbes. Voltaire y voyait l'oeuvre d'un sage faisant l'histoire de l'âme plutôt que son roman. Les annotations de G. Moyal viennent enrichir la pensée de l'auteur et les notes du traducteur.

John Locke, widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered the first of the British empiricists, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, …