Ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist. What do we know? What are we certain of? What can we prove? What is the nature of existence? Epistemology is the study of knowledge. How do we know what we know? How can we establish truth and certainty? Are their limits to what we can know based on how we come to know it? These epistemological questions when combined with ontological questions have philosophers pondering what exists and how we know it exists.
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to obey others‚ but one is a judge of oneself of what the law of nature requires. Locke furthermore argues that God gave the world to men in common‚ however it is not supposed to remain common and uncultivated (par. 34). The reason that it should not remain common and uncultivated because God gave it “to people for their benefit‚ and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it” (par. 34). Locke then claims that with the labor of his body‚ and with the works of his hand‚ whatsoever
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John Locke Western Civilization encompasses many new innovations‚ theories‚ and discoveries. However only the greatest people‚ events‚ and concepts of Western Civilization are still known and used today. In my opinion one of the most influential people of this time period is John Locke. Locke discovered multiple breakthroughs on natural law that still have a great impact on our modern society. John Locke was born August 29‚ 1632‚ in Wrington‚ a small village
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John Locke is known as the father of classical liberalism because of his core political ideas and doctrines are considered to be the makings of constitutional law and Anglo-American jurisprudence. British philosopher John Locke was born on August 29th 1632 in the county of Somerset England. After attending schools in London and Oxford he received his masters of arts from the prestigious Christ college. In 1668 he was elected into the Royal society where he studied medicine and graduated as a physician
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John Locke was a philosopher and supporter of The Enlightenment whose philosophies served a crucial role in its formation‚ these ideologies fall into three major branches: epistemology‚ political philosophy‚ and religious toleration. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that revolved around the use of reason and progress from the Scientific Revolution to address human problems. Epistemology supported inductive reasoning‚ a form of thinking in which one takes specific details and uses them to
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S.D. John Locke John Locke was one of the most important and influential philosophers ever in history‚ which he expressed through writing. John Locke was born on August 29‚ 1632 to John Locke and Agnes Keene‚ in a cottage by the church in Wrington‚ in the English county of Somerset. Immediately after he was born he was baptized. Both of his parents were Puritans and he was raised that way. His father was a country lawyer and a military man‚ in which he was a captain during the English Civil
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In Linda Alcoff article How Is Epistemology Political? one aspect she relates epistemology as political is the political conditions of knowledge production. She believes that epistemology is based on active social practice and that they shape what we know about knowledge‚ such as going to work‚ going to school‚ cooking‚ showering is important to people as parts of their everyday life activities. She also points out that epistemology is gender and racially exclusive and that it is due to power and
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Philosophy Essay (Descartes vs. Locke) Socrates once said‚ “As for me‚ all I know is that I know nothing.” Several philosophers contradicted Socrates’ outlook and believed that true knowledge was in fact attainable. This epistemological view however had several stances to it‚ as philosophers held different beliefs in regards to the derivation of true knowledge. Rationalists believed that the mind was the source of true knowledge‚ while in Empiricism‚ true knowledge derived from the senses. Rene
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First‚ I explore John Locke’s conception of substance. After‚ I argue that Locke’s theory of substance is necessary for his theory of identity‚ and therefore philosophically vital for Locke’s ethical and political theories. I consider objections to Locke‚ but ultimately defend Locke’s theory of substance and its primacy in Locke’s overall philosophy through a different interpretive approach. Locke’s Substrata: John Locke’s doctrine of substratum—a metaphysical theory that posits that an imperceptible
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What is the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics In many ways epistemology clears the way for metaphysical construction or hypothesis. By adhering to the principles of one branch of philosophy‚ it allows us to become better at searching within the other. It is true that epistemic ideas are often knocked down by metaphysics‚ but when one considers that it is entirely possible to base metaphysical ideas on epistemology‚ it becomes clear that the branches of philosophy are very
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