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John Locke: Of the Conduct of the Understanding
Edited by F. W. Garforth
Classics in Education Series No. 31


Notes to the Introduction by Francis W. Garforth

01 For Locke's account of the will see Essay, II, xxi. -- F.W.G.

01 D.J. O'Connor, John Locke (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1952), p. 222

02 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (cited hereafter as Essay), I, i, 2.

03 Ibid., I, ii, 15; II, i, 2.

04 Ibid., I, ii, 1.

05 Ibid., II, i, 2.

06 Ibid .

07 Of the Conduct of the Understanding (cited hereafter as Con- duct), section 2; cf. Some Thoughts Concerning Education (cited hereafter as Thoughts), Secs. 1, 101

08 Essay, II, i, 1.

09 Ibid., II, i, 2-4.

10 Ibid., 5.

11 Ibid., IV, i, 1.

12 Ibid., 2.

13 Ibid.,ii, 1.

14 Ibid., 14.

15 Ibid., II, ii, 1.

16 "It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking" (Essay, I, i, 8). For further discussion of Locke's "ideas," see Professor Woozley's introduction to his edition, John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, abridged (London: Wil- liam Collins Sons &: Co., 1964), pp. 24 ff.

17 Locke anticipates the first part of this criticism in Essay, IV, iv, 3: "How shall the mind, when it perceives nothing but its own ideas, know that they agree with things themselves?"

18 Woozley, op. cit., p. 30.

19 Thoughts, Sec. 147.

20 Ibid ., Sec. 189.

21 Ibid ., Sec. 166.

22 See, for example, ibid., Secs. 66, 101-102.

23 See, for example, ibid., Secs. 64-65, 98.

24 Ibid ., Sec. 138.

25 Conduct, Sec. 25.

26 Thoughts, Sec. 198.

27 Ibid., Sec.1.

28 Conduct, Sec. 4.

29 Thoughts, Sec. 195

30 For his sympathy with and understanding of young people, see Conduct, section 30 and also Thoughts, Sec. 63, 71, 145.

31 See Woozley, op. cit., pp. 11-12.

32 Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Book I, Aph. 56.

33 See, for example, Essay IV, iv, 6; and xii, 14 ff.; and Conduct, Secs. 7, 21, 31.