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      <name><![CDATA[John Locke]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this again, under less purposive circumstances, I'm struck by how well it works as a work of prose, with delerious, rushed passages and moments of stillness and clarity, things Locke wants to say but steps back from (i.e. the possibility that matter can think), and funny, self-deprecating li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2713675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the mammoth works I tackled after reading about Locke in Russell's book and hearing every enlightenment series start off with Locke and his contributions to politics as well as epistemological philosophy. <br/><br/>I read this for pleasure not school, and it was difficult but very re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67435540">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Locke's readable discourse on empiricism, which we might think of now as inductive reasoning from contingent facts, covers a broad scope and gives readers a taste of the Enlightenment in its full flower.  <br/><br/>Written before philosophy became too specialized for everyday discourse, this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20489396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have not read this book in its entirety. On several occasions I tried but its older style and sheer size kept me from getting very far. I studied the arguments in this book (at least a representative portion of them) in college, so it is unlikely that I will ever get around to reading it completel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45838399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Locke presents a theory of knowledge that originates from a 'tabula rasa', a blank slate, and includes the analysis that features of perception such as colors are actually in the mind of the perceiver, not in the outer object.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Montagine, it's the project of an intelligent man trying to understand things. Much overlooked work as the ideas are a huge break with the past.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Locke sets forth what seems like 'common sense' empiricism, leaving it for Berkeley and Hume to see the skeptical results latent therein.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is where America as an experiment in self governance began.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[selections]]></body>
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    <review id="17559283">
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    <body><![CDATA[I get the sense from reading this that John Locke would be someone I would enjoy hanging out with.  His pragmatic approach is refreshing in the world of philosophy, and his argumentative style beats you over the head with its sensibility again and again.  I find it fascinating to see how much our in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17559283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72342037">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[long-winded, obvious, repetative, and inconsistent.]]></body>
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    <review id="20804442">
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    <name><![CDATA[Patrick\]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Humans appropriate from Nature - the how condition and consequence; started the thread that lead to Marx and the human as prodcutive machine. Locke is a genius of first order and still very much alive in all of us in our social and political thinking.]]></body>
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    <review id="17733367">
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    <body><![CDATA[All of these enlightenment thinker and I've never given them a shot on their own outside of a sentence or two on a chalkboard...]]></body>
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    <review id="45857868">
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    <body><![CDATA[It will take time to understand..But I like it.You mustn't read it while studying something(just an advise) :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this one is easier to read and more interesting. no lie. ]]></body>
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    <review id="11220149">
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    <body><![CDATA[Good early empirical enquiry. I give it an A for effort.]]></body>
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    <review id="17229500">
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    <body><![CDATA[Redundant, but essential, needs updating.]]></body>
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    <review id="30778628">
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    <body><![CDATA[Long winded! ]]></body>
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