John Locke - 0 views
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E arli er writers such as Chillingworth had argued that human understanding was limited, Locke tries to determine what those limits are
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"Though the familiar use of the Things about us, takes off our Wonder; yet it cures not our Ignorance."
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We can, he thinks, know with certainty that God exists. We can also know about morality with the same precision we know about mathematics, because we are the creators of moral and political ideas
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Locke gives us a theory of natural law and natural rights which he uses to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate civil governments, and to argue for the legitimacy of revolt against tyrannical governments.