Date of Award

6-1931

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

Joseph McLaughlin

Abstract

After the Cartesian philosophy had given decisive expression to the tendencies of modern thought, the line of further progress consisted in two factors: Descartes' principles - one-sidedly rationalistic and abstractedly scientific as they were - were, on the one hand, to be supplemented by the addition of the empirical element which Descartes had neglected, and on the other, to be made available for general culture by approximation to the interests of practical life. Locke was right, and his intentions were good in that he wanted to show that while reason is the instrument of science, demonstration its form, and the realm of knowledge wider than experience, yet this instrument and this form are dependent for their content on a supply of material from the senses. In spite of his good intentions, however, and it is the purpose of this paper to show that, he did not achieve his purpose in his famous "Essay on Human Understanding."

Comments

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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