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John Locke
Birth date: August 29, 1632
Died: October 28, 1704
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Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 11 years ago
That the person who saves Willow - the seventeen year old who's been sexually abused and raped by her uncle - is the person who then goes on to beat the shit of her and depend on her to work as a stripper so he can sit on his ass all day long? The main character, Dr. Box, looks to this asshole as ...
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 11 years ago
Because Pharma is the worst, most psychotic Autobot medic. -_- And Dr. Gideon Box is a bad doctor himself. Having so many doctors in my family, I probably should have known that this would have offended me. But I figured it was free, and I really love psychopathic and sociopathic characters ...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
This treatise published in 1689 was listed in Good Reading's "100 Significant Books." It's a work of epistemology--the branch of philosophy that examines knowledge. Rejecting Descartes' argument of innate principles, Locke argues that humans at birth are a blank slate written on by experience. Loc...
Dichotomygirl
Dichotomygirl rated it 12 years ago
Informative, but not exactly easy to read. Locke writes the longest sentences I've ever seen in my life.
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it 12 years ago
Locke’s Essay is considered a foundational work for the new empiricism which arose out of the friction between Descartes with his rationalist followers and the old-school Aristotelian empiricists of the Scholastics. In true empiricist form, Locke binds himself to the proposition that all knowledge ...
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