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John Locke

John Locke
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Locke’s chief contributions included a clear formulation of the social and political principles that emerged from the turbulence of the 17th Century Britain, and an account of human knowledge
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. . . .No matter how much (or little) exists over and above what is aprehensible to us, it will have no way of getting through to us.

This is why Locke called his masterpiece “Essay concerning Human Understanding” www.gutenberg.org/files/10615/10615-h/10615-h.htm and why, at the very beginning of the book, he says he regarded it as “necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understanding were, or were not, fitted to deal with.” In doing this he launched an enquiry which was taken up after him by some of the outstanding figures in philosophy -- Hume and Kant in the 18th century. Schopenhauer in the 19th, then Russel, Wittgenstein, and Popper in the 20th. Each of these individuals felt a sense of special indebtedness to others who preceded him in this line of succession, a linked chain that can be said now to constitute a tradition. ~ Page 103

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