An Analysis of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, in the Form of Question and Answer - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1878 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. Of Duration, and its Simple Modes. What are Locke's definitions of Duration?--1 . "Fleeting Extension." 2. "That other sort of distance the idea whereof we get, not from the permanent parts of space, but from the fleeting and perpetually perishing parts of succession." (Sect. i.) 3. "The distance between any parts of the succession, or the appearance of any two ideas in the mind." (Sect. 3.) He enumerates some simple modes of this idea?--Hours, days, years, etc., time, and eternity. The answer of a great man, when asked what time was, might persuade one that time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered?--That of St. Augustine, "Si non rogas intelligo;" Locke thinks that this answer is equivalent to saying, "The more I set myself to think of it, the less I understand it."f (Sect. 2.) How, according to Locke, do we get the idea of dura By "Duration" Locke means what is commonly expressed by "Time j" he uses "Time" in an arbitrary and peculiar sense. (Vide sect. 17; cf. sect. 31.) t Cf Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics, Vol. II., p. 535.--"Now, does the present endure for an hour, a minute, a second, or for any part of a second? If you state what length of duration it contains, you are lost. So true is the observation of St. Augustine." Dr. Lardner asserts that St. Augustine's answer evidently signifies, "I know what it means, but cannot explain it." (Lectures on Locke, p. 85.) Dr. Murray, in his edition of the Essay, observes, that Locke has not quoted the words of St. Augustine accurately; the exact words are:--" Quid ergo est tempus? Si nemo ex me quserat, scio; si quserenti explicare velim, nescio."--Confess., Book XL, chap. xiv., sect. 2. tion?--1. It is evident to any one who observes what passes in his own mind, that ther...

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