Part of: The Works of John Locke in Nine Volumes The Works, vol. 1 An Essay concerning Human Understanding Part 1

Hume provides a critical response to “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” by challenging some of Locke’s ideas on perception, causation, and the foundation of knowledge.

Peaden offers a feminist reading of Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and discusses how it planted seeds for modern feminism(s) while also examining how it reified a discursive system which has been used to oppress women.

Both works explore the nature of human knowledge, but Kant’s treatise delves into rationalism and empiricism, offering a comprehensive examination of the limits and possibilities of human reason compared to Locke’s emphasis on the origins and scope of human understanding.

This treatise explores the nature of human knowledge and questions the validity of concepts such as causality and challenges some of Locke’s ideas on perception and reasoning.

This work explores the concept of the social contract and the origins of political society, which aligns with Locke’s ruminations on the origins of government.

The Republic explores the nature of knowledge and human understanding, but while Locke focuses on the individual’s acquisition of knowledge through sensory experiences and reflection, Plato examines knowledge as the realization of Forms or abstract ideals.

This work provides an intellectual context for Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, with Descartes discussing ideas as innate, while Locke explores ideas as acquired.

One can find rationalistic, empirical, and revelational aspects in John Locke’s thinking–but that doesn’t make him incoherent.