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Category Archives: John Locke

Locke’s Naturalistic Understanding of Animals

More complex than the theological version given in the First Treastise, ยง25, but the structure is more or less the same.

John Locke: Elements of Natural Philosophy

The full text of Chapter 10 “Of Animals” and Chapter 12 “Of the Understanding of Man” from John Locke’s Elements of Natural Philosophy can be found below. To the best of my knowledge, there are no current editions of this text.

Locke on Dominion

I feel safe in making the following claim: there is no one who has spent more time deciphering John Locke’s interpretation of Biblical dominion than I. Wish I was able to draw better diagrams! Still piecing together what he understands the “creeping” animals to be (other than that they are reptiles and, presumably, bugs and [...]