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Concepts and Identity According to John Locke

the tea, thus a complex idea is "brewing." The making of the tea connects us in a unique way that is singular to the two of us. M...

Personal Property Concepts of John Locke

In eight pages this report discusses John Locke's Second Treatise on Government in a consideration of the political philosopher's ...

Social Contract Theory and John Locke

In five pages this paper examines the views of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes in a comparison of their social contract th...

John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

or easily assessed manner. As an example, in the first paragraph being examined Locke states, "Clear and distinct ideas are term...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

U.S. Government System and John Locke

of God, nor can they deny the rights of individuals to their separate and distinct beliefs. Locke also argued that man sho...

Locke and Hume on Knowledge

do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...

John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Age of Reason and Empiricism's Limits in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

will experience touch, smell, taste and so forth, the latter of which is difficult to relay. In other words, how can one provide a...

Morality and Man According to John Locke

In five pages Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is referenced in a discussion of the philosopher's perspectives rega...

Book Two of Essay on Human Understanding by John Locke

On five pages this report considers Locke's subdivision of human ideas into relations, modes, and substances within the context of...

Disciples of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes and Their Disagreements

Divisibility and positivism are examined in a report of two pages that discusses the disagreement points between Thomas Hobbes' an...

Issue of Human Rights

a starting point. This was then built on by philosophers such as Kat, and the culture has changed so that these are perceived as a...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Evaluating the Paradox of John Locke

that people do have a duty to God, which is coupled with a duty to obey their ruler (Honderich, 1995). At the same time, Locke say...

Ideas Concept of John Locke

being things such as substances that are found in the material world (Honderich, 1995). Modes and relations are two other complex ...

Education Concepts of John Locke

in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than di...

Property According to John Locke

because although God has given man great riches, he has limited it: "The same law of nature, that does by this means give us prop...

John Locke and the Right to Revolt Against Government Authority

"Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes w...

Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

In three pages this paper examines how Jefferson borrowed from Enlightenment theories and John Locke's political philosophy in wri...

Ideas in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

In three pages John Locke's perspectives and philosophy of ideas as presented in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding are exami...

Social Contract Theory and the State

In six pages this report discusses the social contract theory in a consideration of how the state concept came into being with Joh...

Property as Defined by John Locke

In two pages this paper discusses Locke's Essay on Civil Government in terms of how the English political philosopher defined prop...

'Dream Demon' of Descartes, and Russell's Reaction

In four pages this paper discusses how Russell reacted to the 'dream demon' notion of Descartes, contrasting his perspective that ...

External Objects, Human Perception and the 'Representationalism' of John Locke

In six pages this research paper considers An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in an analysis of Locke's representation of how...

Western Enlightenment and the Philosophies of John Locke

In five pages this paper discusses how Locke's philosophies contributed to the Enlightenment of the West in an examination of how ...

Property in Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

In five pages this paper discusses the social implications of property in John Locke's argument presented in his Second Treatise o...

Democracy Supporter John Locke

In six pages this paper discusses how Locke's political philosophies may be regarded as advocacy for democracy in a consideration ...

God As Conceptualized by Baruch Spinoza

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

Locke and Rousseau and the Impossibility of Teaching Intelligence

basis of this essay (1995). He maintains the blank state hypothesis, believing that people are born with minds akin to a blank, wh...