Kyle Harrison
to-read
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Author
- John Locke
- Published
- 1689
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Locke’s account of where knowledge comes from — the mind as blank paper written on by experience, and the attack on innate ideas.
Where I heard about it
- Peter Savodnik (@petersavodnik) — a post on X telling readers to “Read everything you can find by Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. To start.”, April 2026.
Connections
- John Locke — from the same canon list.
- philosophy — from the same canon list.