Eighteenth-Century Literature: Versions of the Self in 18th-C Britain
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2003English
About this course
When John Locke declared (in the 1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding) that knowledge was derived solely from experience, he raised the possibility that human understanding and identity were not the products of God’s will or of immutable laws of nature so much as of one’s personal history and background.
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