Of the Conduct of the Understanding
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John Locke's
Of the Conduct of the Understanding describes how to think clearly and rationally; it is a handbook for autodidacts. It complements Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education
which explains how to educate children. The text was first published in 1706 as part of Peter King's Posthumous Works of John Locke.
John Locke
John Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
Of the Conduct of the Understanding describes how to think clearly and rationally; it is a handbook for autodidacts. It complements Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England...
which explains how to educate children. The text was first published in 1706 as part of Peter King's Posthumous Works of John Locke.