Locke Classic Thinkers Series
Auteur : Pyle A. J.
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.
Abbreviations vi
Introduction: The Unity of Locke's Thought 1
1 Life, Contexts and Concerns 8
2 The Theory of Ideas 31
3 Human Knowledge and Its Limits 54
4 The Material World 77
5 God and Religion 101
6 The Soul and the Afterlife 125
7 The Two Treatises of Government 147
8 Problems of Church and State 173
Notes 196
Select Bibliography 208
Index 214
Date de parution : 01-2013
Ouvrage de 224 p.
15.4x23 cm