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Locke, John : (1632-1704) laid the epistemological foundations of modern science.

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... document, proved to be a much less consistent document than could be expected of the Word of God. England, the country of origin of the Enlightenment, was the exemplar of tolerance. Names like John Toland, John Locke and David Hume, willing to draw the last consequences of the enlightening but fallible human reason, are an ornament to its culture. In France there was Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), “the great ...

... There was a sea-change taking place in Britain’s 19th century. The Enlightenment is generally associated with France and the philosophes , but the part of the British philosophers, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and David Hume in particular, was at least as important. Their critical attitude (empiricism) towards the long established European, mainly Christian values opened the gates for the principles of... the fire [in London] on his atheism. Parliament investigated him for blasphemy for two years … He escaped being charged as a heretic, but he was forbidden to write ever again about human nature. … Locke worried that his writings might get him hanged.” 1 Darwin knew of more recent cases and therefore “hid his materialism, as he secretly scribbled away in his notebooks working out his theory.”... reaction against this increasing materialism, religiously inclined persons, in the first place learned members of the clergy, launched ‘natural theology’. One of the early proponents of this view was John Ray, the title of whose book The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation (1691) states in a nutshell what natural theology was about. Ray was the first to use the metaphor of the watch: ...

... 136 Lion of Juda, 46 Little Flowers of St. Francis, The, 48 fn. 17 Little Girl Found, A, 134 Little Girl Lost, A, 133,239 "Living Creatures", 4 Logos, 43 Locke,249 Los, Los(-Christ), 4,28,141,142,172, 208-23,225,231,233,242,243,244, 252,257 Lowe, J. Livingstone, 126 Lucifer, 40,47,48, 59,104,181-82 Luvah, 4,141,142,177,178,180,189, 236... 193,248 Jerusalem, Emanative, 1,53,55,244, 245,246,247,248,251,262 Jesus, Jesus the Imagination, 262,265, 266 Jesus of the Bible, 51-52 Job, 47 John o' London's Weekly, 141 fn. 8 John the Baptist, 108 Jung, 4,141,142,146 Kazin, Alfred, 22 Kelley, Maurice, 101 Keynes, Geoffrey, i, ii, iii, iv, 2 fn. 1, 18,236-37 King Henry the Fifth... Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot, A, 41 Representative English Poetry, 24 fn. 9 Revelation of St. John the Divine, The, 44, 45,46,59 fn. 20 Rintrah, 205-06,231 Romantic Imagination, The, 137 fn. 1 Rossetti Ms., 54,55, 92 Rosenthal, M.L., 22,33-35,41 Sampson, John,T41 fn. 5 Satan, 40,44,47,56,57,58,65,66,68, 180,182 "Satan defying God the Father", 54 "Satan ...

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... (1646-1716), Kant (1728-1804) and Hegel (1770-1831). In the meantime, an opposition against rationalism arose with the empiricism 1 of John Locke (1632- 1704). Locke attacked the theory of innate ideas and maintained that all ideas have their origin in sense-experience. Locke s empiricism reached its climax with David Hume (1711-1776), who maintained that sense-experience cannot provide a basis for belief... ng among the many religious and spiritual movements in the world. It is well known that Sufi ideas and even literary texts were borrowed by or lay behind teachings as diverse as those of St. John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Avila, Roger Bacon and Guru Nanak, as well as the Vedas. Many Sufis claim that their knowledge has existed/or thousands of years and has links with the Hermetic, Pythagorean ...

... history is any indicator. Scientists have created rational theories without being logicians per se and mystics have realised the Brahman without knowing a whit of formal logic. Locke points this out with telling effect. "God", says Locke, "has not been so sparing to men, to make them barely two-legged and left it to Aristotle to make them rational." 1 But this is not what Logic proposes to do. It is not... descriptive of "being as such", whatever it may mean precisely, we must distinguish the conception of them as empirical generalisations of a very high order. This view was most clearly expressed by John Stuart Mill in his System of Logic (1843).   We shall now discuss specifically the Law of Contradiction. Aristotle produced seven "proofs" to demonstrate the indispensability of the Law of... and not to be and who explained the concept of becoming as implying the falsehood of the principle that everything is what it is. Before Aristotle this principle had been defended by Parmenides. John Stuart Mill's approach is avowedly empirical. He regarded the principle of contradiction as "one of our first empirical generalisations from experience and originally founded on our distinction between ...

... nature of man. In the West there is the liberal conception of man competing with the Marxist conception. The liberal conception of man was developed by such classical writers as Locke, Adam Smith, Bentham, and John Stuart Mill and is enshrined in the liberal democracies of the West and is incorporated in the thinking of influential philosophers like Karl Popper. The defenders of Western ...

... error to another by the help of an unbridled intellect and reason which knows no principle. So intellectual education must come only after the formation of moral character. Rousseau laughs at Locke's advice to reason with children: Those children who have been constantly reasoned with strike me as exceptionally silly. Of all human faculties reason... is the last and choicest growth — and... honorable trade, at least," you will say. What does this term mean? Is not every trade honorable that is useful to the public? I do not want him to be an embroiderer, a gilder, or a varnisher, like Locke's gentleman; neither do I want him to be a musician, a comedian, or a writer of books.5 Except these professions, and others which resemble them, let him choose the one he prefers; I do not assume to... than to any other writer. Not least significant, education still feels repercussions from Emile. The book's educational ideas stimulated Pestalozzi in Switzerland, Maria Montessori in Italy, and John Dewey in America; "progressive education " is part of Rousseau s legacy. 1. Rousseau, op cit.,p. 17 .2. From J. M. Cohen, Introduction, in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions, p. 8. ...

... packed into the short "Preludium". And we may affirm that Blake's theme in his longer poems is, in different garbs, the same as in The First Book of Urizen - essentially the combating of the Bacon-Locke-Newton philosophy of a mechanical universe outside Mind, independent of Mind, instead of being organic part of it within an infinitude of Universal Divine Humanity. The Christian-Miltonic antecedents... Blake's concern with the rational-scientific materialism of Bacon, 229. Ibid., p. 226 (ibid., pl. 7, 1 .8). 230. Ibid., p. 222 (ibid., pl. 3, Ch. I, 11.1-5). Page 213 Locke and Newton. Even Raine's reading does not bring in that concern: it centres upon the problem of evil in the world or, in broader terms, the relation of the ambiguous time-world to the luminous world... Self-annihilation & the grandeur of Inspiration, "To cast off Rational Demonstration by Faith in the Saviour, "To cast off the rotten rags of Memory by Inspiration, "To cast off Bacon, Locke & Newton from Albion's covering, "To take off his filthy garments & clothe him with Imagination... "These are the destroyers of Jerusalem, these are the murderers "Of Jesus ...

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