Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain

New Essays on Human Understanding

Author

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Language

French

Year

1689

Country

Electorate of Saxony

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

early modern europeidealismrationalismphilosophy

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New Essays on Human Understanding is a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal by Gottfried Leibniz of John Locke's major work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). It is one of only two full-length works by Leibniz. It was finished in 1704, but Locke's death was the cause alleged by Leibniz to withhold its publication. The book was published in 1765, some 60 years following its completion. Leibniz had died in 1716, and never saw its published form.