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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 12 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 ...
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it 12 years ago
Separation of powers, separation of church and State and taxation without the consent of the governed. Sound familiar? It doesn’t take long to see that Locke’s Second Treatise on Government is the philosophical grandfather to the American Revolution. One hundred years after it was written, many o...
Khaleel
Khaleel rated it 12 years ago
محاولة فاشلة من لوك , كما من غيره لحث المتدينين على أخلاقيات التسامح الفكري و العودة الى الفطرة الأنسانية كمن يقوم بتدريب كلاب الصيد لتصبح نباتية , وهو بذلك يقوضّ أحد أقوى صفاتها الطبيعية الملازمة لها بالفطرةالمتدين فُطر على الهمجية والكره للدين الأخر , وإلا لرأيت المتدينين يدينون دينا واحدا , لطا...
janeg
janeg rated it 13 years ago
This book is like a kind grandfather unconsciously making me feel guilty for not have studied the bible or Latin well enough.I still have a weak spot for kind old men.
Jill
Jill rated it 13 years ago
A very important work but one that I mostly disagree with (chapter 5, I'm looking at you).
Book-o-Craze
Book-o-Craze rated it 13 years ago
GAH!Okay, I like philosophy, but everything has limits!I had to read this book for an assignment I have, and well, it was...weird?John Locke kept on saying something and after some pages going all against to what he previously said.His opinions?I don't know if I agree, I was too absorbed trying to m...
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