John Locke is one of the great figures of the modern philosophical pantheon. No study of the history of thought since the seventeenth century can ignore him. In the close confines of university philosophy departments his Essay Concerning Human Understanding is read (in parts), or read about, by students instructed to examine his criticism of the doctrine of innate ideas, or his theory of perception and the correlative distinction between primary and secondary qualities, or his famous discussion of the problem of personal identity. 

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