Through a brief introduction to Lock's opinions concerning the essential quality between mind and body and their relationship (expounded in his 'On Human comprehension'), the article intends to reveal Lock's dilemma on the relationship between mind and body owing to the influence by empiricism: on the one hand, he falls into a contradiction between dualism and sympathin; on the other hand, he is wavering between monism and dualism in such a way that it has caused a forward tendency to the western theory of mi...
