Locke
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Autor: A. J. Pyle
ISBN: 9780745650678
Editura: Polity
Anul publicării: 2013
Pagini: 224
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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.
Introduction: The Unity of Locke's Thought
1. Life, Contexts, and Concerns
2. The Theory of Ideas
3. Human Knowledge and its Limits
4. The Material World
5. God and Religion
6. The Soul and the Afterlife
7. The Two Treatises of Government
8. Problems of Church and State
Notes
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Andrew Pyle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol.
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.
Introduction: The Unity of Locke's Thought
1. Life, Contexts, and Concerns
2. The Theory of Ideas
3. Human Knowledge and its Limits
4. The Material World
5. God and Religion
6. The Soul and the Afterlife
7. The Two Treatises of Government
8. Problems of Church and State
Notes
Select Bibliography
Andrew Pyle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol.
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