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    John Locke and Immanuel Kant: Comparative analysis of epistemological doctrines We are here concerned with the relationship between the human mind‚ somatic-sensory perceptions‚ objects of perception‚ and claims of knowledge arising from their interaction‚ through the philosophies of John Locke and Immanuel Kant. Confounding the ability to find solid epistemological ground‚ philosophers have‚ generally speaking‚ debated whether ‘what’ we know is prima facie determined by the objective‚ as-they-are

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    with the statement that the violent and terror filled French revolution was in fact based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. John Locke is one of the most well known philosophers during the Enlightenment. John Locke states that "…if a long train of abuses‚ prevarications‚ and artifices‚ all tending the same way‚ make the design visible to the people…" Basically‚ John Locke is saying that under major circumstances a community has to unite to start a revolution that would better the nation. Another

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    John Locke- an English philosopher in the 17-18th century. The significance was that John Locke was the advocate for the idea of popular sovereignty during the Enlightenment era which led to the American‚ French‚ Haitian‚ and Latin revolutions. Sepoys- Indian troops under British command in the 18th century. The significance is the sepoys were the cause of the Indian rebellion in 1857 that made formally transformed India into a British colony. Berlin Conference- a conference during (1884-1885)

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    John Reumann helps us to better understand the letter of Philippians. He thinks that the one who wrote the letter was Paul but he also says that the letter of Philippians is a combination of three separate letters which Paul had written to the Philippian churches. Reumann offers a general presentation taken after an investigation of Interpretation‚ Notes and Criticism. The compact presentation establishes Reumann’s view that the letter to the Philippians includes three initially isolated Pauline

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    emerging from centuries of darkness and ignorance into an enlightenment period fueled by reason and science. The ones who sparked the enlightenment can be traced to the 17th century. They include the two political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Thomas Hobbes was born on April 5‚ 1588 and he was best known for his work on political philosophy. His book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy. In Leviathan‚ Hobbes set out his doctrine of

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    Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are three vital political thinkers who have made a distinctive contribution and finest exemplar to the idea on state of nature and the social contract. Prior to the establishment of the social contract‚ men lived in the condition termed as the state of nature. Heywood (2013) defines state of nature as a society without the presence of any political authority and of legal checks on each individual to regulate them. These political thinkers however

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    In this letter to John Adams‚ his wife Abigail is asking him to reconsider the laws of a new nation and that it does not repeat what his ancestors had done by rebuilding a masculine society. She understands what he is doing against Great Britain‚ but she also wants him to know that all men would become tyrannical if and only if they did not have their wives to set them straight. Her message is very explicit in that she states she does not want women to be forgotten and that they deserve the same

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    John Locke and his ideas about philosophy was a major influence on the American political system‚ not to mention many other political systems‚ too. His ideas were very universal‚ especially those regarding rights and freedom‚ two topics for which the United States of America is best known. Locke claimed that “there is a law of nature governing human beings and that it is knowable by human reason.” This law of nature is the basis of American politics‚ one by which we all live by today. This law included

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    through experience. Empiricism was a way for philosophers to answer the question of skepticism. Both John Locke and George Berkeley believed the theory of empiricism to a certain extent. Locke believed our knowledge is not inherited but came from our senses and our senses could be split into two group: primary and secondary qualities. The main disagreement Berkeley had with Locke was his view concerning primary and secondary qualities. Berkeley was a firm believer that knowledge came from experience

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    In Chapter 5 of John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government‚ Locke justifies the existence to private property. Locke starts the chapter off with a big picture. He introduces the idea that earth and everything on it belongs to all men‚ and God hand it to us in hopes that we use “reason to make use of it to the best advantage of life‚ and convenience” (§26 pp.18). With our given ability to reason and our right to preserve ourselves‚ God trust that we can utilize the common stock and make the world

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