How long does it take to read Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke takes about 8 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1689. 445 pages, about 122,375 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 188 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding examines the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. Locke pictures the mind at birth as empty and argues that experience fills it, rejecting the idea that people are born with innate principles. He holds that every idea comes through sensation or reflection, and he separates simple ideas from complex ones and the qualities of bodies from the sensations they produce. The work then turns to personal identity, the way words relate to ideas, and the scope and limits of what people can know.
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Subjects: Theory of Knowledge, Connaissance, Théorie de la, Knowledge, History and criticism, Music, Filosofia
