John Locke: Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding

J. R. Milton was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and at Balliol College, Oxford. He taught at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, and at King's College London, where he was Professor of the History of Philosophy until his retirement in 2014. He has published widely on the history of philosophy in the early modern period, with particular emphasis on the life and writings of John Locke. He is currently General Editor of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke.G. A. J. Rogers is Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy at Keele University. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton, and the University of Nottingham, before graduate study at St Catherine's College, Oxford, with Gilbert Ryle, Rom Harré, and David Pears, and a PhD at Keele University with Antony Flew. He was appointed lecturer at Keele in 1972 and remained there for his whole career except for two research fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the co-editor of Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume I: Drafts A and B (1990), for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. Drafts A and B, for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke (1990).

• General IntroductionWork on the Essay, 1672-1683Writing the Essay, 1683-1689Draft C of the EssayTextual IntroductionThe History and Description of the TextThe Transcription of the ManuscriptDraft C of the Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingBook II: [untitled]II: No Innate Speculative PrinciplesIII: No Innate Practical PrinciplesIV: Other Considerations about Innate Principles, both Speculative and PracticalBook III: Of the Original of our IdeasII: Of Simple IdeasIII: Of Ideas of one SenseIV: Of Simple Ideas by more than one SenseV: Of Simple Ideas of ReflectionVI: Of Ideas both of Sensation & ReflectionVII: Some Farther Considerations of our Simple IdeasVIII: Of PerceptionIX: Of RetentionX: Of DiscerningXI: Of ComparingXII: Of CompositionXIII: Of Denomination & AbstractionXIV: Of Simple & Complex IdeasXV: Of Simple & Mixed ModesXVI: Of Space & the Simple Modes of itXVII: Of Duration and its Simple ModesXVIII: Duration & Expansion considered togetherXIX: Of NumberXX: Of InfinityXXI: Of SolidityXXII: Of other Simple ModesXXIII: Of the Simple Modes of ThinkingXXIV: Of the Modes of Pleasure and PainXXV: Of PowerXXVI: Of Complex or Mixed ModesXXVII: Of the Complex Ideas of SubstancesXXVIII: Of Collective Ideas of SubstancesXXIX: Of RelationXXX: Of the Relation of Cause & Effect, & some othersXXXI: Of Other RelationsXXXII: Of Clear & Distinct, Obscure & Confused IdeasXXXIII: Of Real & Phantastical, Adequate & Inadequate IdeasAppendicesI: Parallel Passages in Drafts A and B, in Draft C, and in the First Edition of the EssayII: Passages in Drafts A and B that were re-used in Draft CIII: Passages in the First Edition of the Essay not present in Draft CIV: Passages in Locke's journal re-used in Book IV of the Essay