An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I
John Locke
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John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes the notion of innate ideas and argues against a number of propositions that rationalists offer as universally accepted truth. In the second book Locke elaborates the role played by sensation, reflection, perception and retention in giving rise to simple ideas. Then he elaborates on how different modes, substances and relations of simple ideas (of the same kind) give rise to complex ideas v.g. space, time, infinity etc. Finally he discusses complex ideas of mixed modes which arise from a combination of simple ideas of different kinds v.g. identity and diversity, cause and effect, etc. (Summary by bala) (17 hr 23 min)
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Don't understand reader
A LibriVox Listener
If it is going to be read in English it needs to be understood so that people who don't speak English can understand. Bad app if they let volunteers who read poorly.
A LibriVox Listener
Terrible. Readers with Indian accent are virtually unintelligible. The prose is difficult enough without audio in broken English!
Strong Indian accent. And J. Lockes comma use.
A LibriVox Listener
The readers have a strong Indian accent. But that isn't a real problem. For me it was easy to get used to. The accent is not what makes the text hard to follow. It's John Locke's use of comma's. This makes the sentences complex. This also makes it hard to read it out loud, while keeping the right intonation at the right moment in the sentence. Even for a native speaker.
Not even worth listening to.
Nordic Hebrew.
The reader has such a hard Indian accent that the recording becomes utterly useless and yet another obvious lack of respect and care for Western civilisation (the only one I might add).