Wednesday, March 12, 2008
While Descartes goes on about how God is real beacause a triangle has three angles, Locke seems to come to rational conclusions desiphering faith and reason. I especially enjoy and woud like to point out one part that stretches all the way into book 4. Locked points out that it is only right to use understanding and reason to find the truth. "he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much of the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to recieve the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope." This basically targets people who believe that their immediate religious revelations are correct without using reason or rationality to truly find out. Locke in turn seems to believe that people that do this usually end up with opinions and explanations that make no sense.
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