Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Vorbemerkung V
3. Contents VII
4. Einführung 1
5. Locke's Doctrine of Abstraction: Some Aspect of its Historical and Philosophical Significance 5
6. Observations on the First Draft of the Essay concerning human understanding 25
7. Individuality and Clientage in the Formation of Locke's Social Imagination 43
8. The Concept of Experience in John Locke 74
9. Locke's Liberal Theory of Parenthood 90
10. Locke's Strange Doctrine of Punishment 113
11. John Locke and the Nominalist Tradition 128
12. Locke, Law and the Laws of Nature 146
13. Locke, Descartes and the Science of Nature 163
14. Locke's Concept of Person 181
15. Locke, Leibniz, and the Reality of Ideas 193
16. Locke and Malebranche: Two Concepts of Ideas 208
17. Index of Names 225
18. Index of Subjects 227
19. Index of References to, and Quotations from, Locke's Works 229
20. Backmatter 235