Empiricism
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Locke's Influence on Philosophy
lockian ideas were not directly and directly influential on political practice. I think thre's another way in which democracy comes into locke's influence. There's avery nice statement by am mary astell in the 16 ninetis often referred to as the first english feminist. And she says, the great thing about this new movement in philosophy is that it says that custom learning that comes from custom is actually a form of corruption. That means that women and children who have not had the disadvantage of latin education do not have their minds filled with all this ridiculous rhetoric. The plain style, the distrust of rhetoric, the idea of rhetoric and high flown language was associated with the idea of
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