Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge
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- Real Author: Etienne Bonnot De Condillac
- Editor and Translator: Hans Aarsleff, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: November 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521585767
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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. He argued, further, that language has its origin in human interaction and in our natural capacity to react spontaneously and instinctively to the expression of emotions and states of mind in others. The importance of this pointedly anti-Cartesian view, and its relevance to both aesthetics and epistemology, were quickly understood, and Condillac's work influenced many later philosophers including Herder, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. His conception also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language, its usage, and its relation to mind and thought.
Read more- New translation of a work not translated into English since 1756
- Seminal work in the history of philosophy of language, anticipating Wittgenstein
- Aarsleff an acknowledged expert in the field
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- Date Published: November 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521585767
- length: 276 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.446kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. The Materials of our Knowledge and Especially the Operations of the Soul: Section 1
Section 2. Analysis and generation of the operations of the soul
Section 3. Simple and complex ideas
Section 4
Section 5. Abstractions
Section 6. Some judgments that have been erroneously attributed to the mind, or the solution of a metaphysical problem
Part II. Language and Method: Section 1. The origin and progress of language
Section 2. Method.
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