Reviews for The Age of Enlightenment

The average rating for The Age of Enlightenment based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-01 00:00:00 Raymond Worley John Locke's Theory (1) Platonic Realism. "Universals" do not exist in the temporal world. They subsist "outside" it. They can be apprehended by the intellect but not by sense experience. Particular objects in the world of sense experience have universal characteristics by virtue of "partaking in," or "imitating" these timeless patterns, set apart. (2) Aristotelian Realism. Universals in a sense do exist, but only "in" the particular objects that exemplify them. They have no independent reality. These two answers are obviously related to the ontological question of what there is in the world. The remaining three are more obviously concerned with the epistemological question (of how we know what we do know), and have in common their denial of independent existence to universals outside the minds of men. (3) Conceptualism. Men are able to recognize an entity as blue or as a man by seeing that it "conforms" with, or "fits," a concept or abstract general idea which they have framed in their minds of blueness or humanity. (4) Imagism. Recognition of something as a man or as blue occurs by comparison with a standard or representative image in our minds (or in a book of standard images) of blue or of a man. (5) Nominalism. There is only the general word itself, and the class of particular objects falling under it. These objects are grouped together in the class in virtue of their perceived resemblance to each other, or-the extreme version of this view-in virtue of nothing at all, i.e., arbitrarily.

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