Of the Conduct of the Understanding

Of the Conduct of the Understanding
Title page from the first edition
Author	John Locke
Country	England
Language	English
Subject	Education and Philosophy
Publisher	Awnsham and John Churchill
Publication date	1706

John Locke

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Social contract Limited government Tabula rasa State of nature Right to property Labor theory of property Lockean proviso
Works (listed chronologically)
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina A Letter Concerning Toleration Two Treatises of Government An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Some Thoughts Concerning Education Of the Conduct of the Understanding
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Robert Filmer Thomas Hobbes 1st Earl of Shaftesbury David Hume Jean-Jacques Rousseau Adam Smith Immanuel Kant Thomas Jefferson
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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, two years after Locke's death, as part of Peter King's Posthumous Works of John Locke.

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John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited with General Introduction, Historical and Philosophical Notes and Critical Apparatus by Paul Schuurman

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