This book addresses one of the fundamental topics in philosophy: the relation between appearance and reality.

Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Professor Yolton delves into John Locke's most important work, the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Some will be surprised to learn that the domain of God, angels, and spirits is a part of Locke's universe, where it is considered the hoped-for destination of the just.The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke also includes Yolton's ...

"In this dictionary John Yolton explains the key words and concepts in Locke's thought."--Back cover.

Yolton's introduction and commentary explicate Locke's doctrines and provide the reader with the general background knowledge of other seventeenth-century writers and their works necessary to an understanding of Locke and his time.

This book, a reevaluation of a major issue in modern philosophy, explores the controversy that grew out of John Locke's suggestion, in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), that God could give to matter the power of thought.