Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes ProCon History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture Money Videos
New Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Directory
References
Discover
Nativity Scene, Adoration of the Magi, Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Montenegro
Why Is Christmas in December?
illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
Image of Antenna galaxy
The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?
bat flying
Are Bats Really Blind?
Chinese dragon sculpture or statue.
10 Legendary Creatures from Around the World
NBA Lakers Celtics Finals Kevin Garnett shooting.
10 Great Sports Rivalries
Casino. Gambling. Slots. Slot machine. Luck. Rich. Neon. Hit the Jackpot neon sign lights up casino window.
Brain Games: 8 Philosophical Puzzles and Paradoxes

New Essays Concerning Human Understanding

work by Leibniz
Also known as: “Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain”

Learn about this topic in these articles:

reaction to Locke

  • William James
    In empiricism: Modern philosophy

    …l’entendement humain (1704, published 1765; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding), arguing that ideas can be virtually innate in a less trivial sense than Locke allowed. Interpreting Locke’s notion of reflection as reasoning rather than as introspection, Leibniz supposed that Locke was more of a rationalist than he really was.

    Read More
  • Plutarch
    In Western philosophy: Factors in writing the history

    …contemporary Cartesian presuppositions; and the New Essays Concerning Human Understanding (1704) by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), a broadly learned German rationalist, is, in turn, specifically directed against Locke.

    Read More