Book Description
Bridges the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussions of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding.
Author : William Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 1994-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521451051
Bridges the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussions of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding.
Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0190660619
This work can be read as a sequel to Kripke's classic Naming and Necessity, confronting important issues left open in that work and developing a novel approach to questions concerning empty names and existence. It provides along the way novel treatments of fictional and mythological discourse, the pragmatics of definite and indefinite descriptions and the language of sense data.
Author : John Locke
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
John Locke's Of the Conduct of the Understanding is a philosophical treatise that describes how to think clearly and rationally. It is a handbook for autodidacts. You will enjoy this detailed and well-written textbook complementing Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
Author : John Locke
Publisher :
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
ISBN : 9780415008471
Author : Leonard Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0226317803
Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology TheNew Negro, declared that “the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.” Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promoting, influencing, and sparring with such figures as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jacob Lawrence, Richmond Barthé, William Grant Still, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, and John Dewey. The long-awaited first biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, Alain L. Locke narrates the untold story of his profound impact on twentieth-century America’s cultural and intellectual life. Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth trace this story through Locke’s Philadelphia upbringing, his undergraduate years at Harvard—where William James helped spark his influential engagement with pragmatism—and his tenure as the first African American Rhodes Scholar. The heart of their narrative illuminates Locke’s heady years in 1920s New York City and his forty-year career at Howard University, where he helped spearhead the adult education movement of the 1930s and wrote on topics ranging from the philosophy of value to the theory of democracy. Harris and Molesworth show that throughout this illustrious career—despite a formal manner that many observers interpreted as elitist or distant—Locke remained a warm and effective teacher and mentor, as well as a fierce champion of literature and art as means of breaking down barriers between communities. The multifaceted portrait that emerges from this engaging account effectively reclaims Locke’s rightful place in the pantheon of America’s most important minds.
Author : Victor Nuovo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 019880055X
Early modern Europe was the birthplace of the modern secular outlook. During the seventeenth century nature and human society came to be regarded in purely naturalistic, empirical ways, and religion was made an object of critical historical study. John Locke was a central figure in all these events. This study of his philosophical thought shows that these changes did not happen smoothly or without many conflicts of belief: Locke, in the role of Christian Virtuoso, endeavoured to resolve them. He was an experimental natural philosopher, a proponent of the so-called 'new philosophy', a variety of atomism that emerged in early modern Europe. But he was also a practising Christian, and he professed confidence that the two vocations were not only compatible, but mutually sustaining. He aspired, without compromising his empirical stance, to unite the two vocations in a single philosophical endeavour with the aim of producing a system of Christian philosophy.
Author : Yechiel M. Leiter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108428185
John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?
Author : Peter R. Anstey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191506257
Peter Anstey presents a thorough and innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy. Focusing on Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding, but also drawing extensively from his other writings and manuscript remains, Anstey argues that Locke was an advocate of the Experimental Philosophy: the new approach to natural philosophy championed by Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society who were opposed to speculative philosophy. On the question of method, Anstey shows how Locke's pessimism about the prospects for a demonstrative science of nature led him, in the Essay, to promote Francis Bacon's method of natural history, and to downplay the value of hypotheses and analogical reasoning in science. But, according to Anstey, Locke never abandoned the ideal of a demonstrative natural philosophy, for he believed that if we could discover the primary qualities of the tiny corpuscles that constitute material bodies, we could then establish a kind of corpuscular metric that would allow us a genuine science of nature. It was only after the publication of the Essay, however, that Locke came to realize that Newton's Principia provided a model for the role of demonstrative reasoning in science based on principles established upon observation, and this led him to make significant revisions to his views in the 1690s. On the content of Locke's natural philosophy, it is argued that even though Locke adhered to the Experimental Philosophy, he was not averse to speculation about the corpuscular nature of matter. Anstey takes us into new terrain and new interpretations of Locke's thought in his explorations of his mercurialist transmutational chymistry, his theory of generation by seminal principles, and his conventionalism about species.
Author : Jerome Huyler
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
An account of the link between Locke's thought and the American Founding. The author argues that previous writers have misread Locke's influence on the Founders: he portrays the philosopher as a moderate 17th-century moralist advocating an individualism that fits well with classic republicanism.
Author : John Locke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141956577
John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the history of Western thought. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.