Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1740 edition of "A letter concerning toleration" by John Locke

Added at 06:30 on 29 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1740 edition of "A letter concerning toleration" the first work of English philosopher and physician known as the "Father of Liberalism" John Locke who was born #OnThisDay 29 August 1632, in whose memory today is also #IndividualRightsDay. His work was important to social contract theory, and greatly affected development of epistemology and political philosophy. His theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, postulating that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception, a concept now known as empiricism

< Leighton Library has a 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" by Hugo Grotius Leighton Library has a 1883 edition of "Selections from the writings of Archbishop Leighton, edited with a memoir and notes by William Blair" >