Condillac (English, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac | Etienne Bonnot De Condillac | Hans Aarsleff)

About the Book

Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on ideas; Condillac turned this upside down by arguing that speech and words are the origin of mental life and knowledge. His work influenced many later phi…

ISBN: 9780521584678