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Condillac, Hans

 
9780521585767: Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
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Sinopsis

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. He argued, further, that language has its origin in human interaction and in our natural capacity to react spontaneously and instinctively to the expression of emotions and states of mind in others. The importance of this pointedly anti-Cartesian view, and its relevance to both aesthetics and epistemology, were quickly understood, and Condillac's work influenced many later philosophers including Herder, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. His conception also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language, its usage, and its relation to mind and thought.

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Hans Aarsleff is Professor of English, Emeritus, Princeton University.

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2010
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ISBN 10 
0521585767
ISBN 13 
9780521585767
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