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Title: Hume and Locke by Thomas H. Green ISBN: 0-8446-2161-7 Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Pub. Date: October, 1960 Format: Textbook Binding List Price(USD): $9.00

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Summary: A devastating analysis of empiricist epistemology.
Comment: In his great _Introduction_ to the works of David Hume, Thomas Hill Green found that he had to subject the entire tradition of British empiricism to close scrutiny beginning with the doctrines of John Locke. The result is a swingeing critique of empiricist epistemology that works quite well as a "standalone" work.

Green was one of a handful of philosophers who introduced German idealism to England, arguing (very effectively) that British philosophy had contracted a case of empiricism and could be saved only by an infusion of Kant and Hegel. And in the present essay, he turns a hawklike eye on the imprecisions that made empiricism seem plausible to begin with.

The essay wanders all over Locke and Hume and is probably impossible to summarize succinctly. Suffice it to say that Green repeatedly discloses the active role of intelligence in the creation of knowledge and disabuses the reader once for all of the confused notion that purely sensory experience can do the things Locke required it to do.

Any number of modern readers might profit from this now apparently seldom-opened work, but it should be of particular interest to readers of philosophers who wish to locate the origins of all knowledge in purely sensory perception. Green's great work is a sustained argument that this project is doomed to failure, and as far as I know his argument has not yet been successfully met.