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Locke (Paperback)
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Locke (Paperback)
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Loot Price R582
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John Locke (1632-1704) has a good claim to the title of the
greatest ever English philosopher, and was a founding father of
both the empiricist tradition in philosophy and the liberal
tradition in politics. This new book provides an accessible
introduction to Locke's thought. Although its primary focus is on
the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, it also discusses the Two
Treatises on Government, the Essay on Toleration, and the
Reasonableness of Christianity, and draws on materials from Locke's
correspondence and notebooks to shed light on the contexts of these
major works. Locke's arguments for his central claims are subjected
to close scrutiny, and his replies to his main critics evaluated.
A.J. Pyle takes as his guiding theme Locke's own maxim, that God
has given humans enough knowledge for our needs. The philosopher
who emerges from these pages is a strikingly modern figure,
anti-metaphysical in his attitude both to science and to theology,
anti-authoritarian in his politics, and cautiously optimistic about
human progress. Locke is indeed one of the founding figures of the
Enlightenment, but for Pyle the Lockean Enlightenment is a modest
affair of slow and hesitant groping towards the light. As well as
serving as an introduction to Locke for students, the book also
helps to correct a number of significant errors and
misunderstandings that have marred our understanding of Locke and
will spark discussion and debate amongst scholars of his work.
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