 | David C. Lindberg, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 956 Seiten
...teaching the proper use of reason. This was a lesson of paramount importance because Locke maintained that "Reason is natural Revelation, whereby the eternal...laid within the reach of their natural Faculties." Religious considerations also emerge in his refutation of the Cartesian thesis that God has implanted... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 Seiten
...earlier claim that 'Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of Light, and foundation of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has lain within the reach of their natural faculties' (Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690). Newton's... | |
 | Norman Sykes - 2004 - 256 Seiten
...greater part of a century'. 3 Locke had already laid down the relationship between reason and revelation. Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal...laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revela1 W. Stevenson to H. Newman, 27 December 1716. Arch. W. Epist. 28, f. 33. 1 Governor Collet to... | |
 | Kim Ian Parker, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 2004 - 217 Seiten
...reason is a natural faculty given to us by God for us to use.3 Locke even goes so far as to call reason "natural Revelation, whereby the Eternal Father of...laid within the reach of their natural Faculties" (4.19.4)^3 Alan Sell points out, this view of reason would have struck a responsive chord in Anglicans... | |
 | Ronald E. Rowe - 2003 - 268 Seiten
...philosopher John Locke, for example, is quoted as saying that reason is a "...natural Revelation, whereby the Father of Light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates...laid within the reach of their natural faculties." 3 ' Reason as liberation from the past. Although it is clear in this passage that reason had not yet... | |
 | Paul Helm - 2002 - 200 Seiten
...he says that 'Faith be founded on the testimony of God . . . revealing any proposition to us'22 and 'Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately'.28 Locke does not appear to think of revelation as containing other than propositions... | |
 | Nicholas Churchich - 2005 - 540 Seiten
...he devotes most of his attention in the last chapters of The Essay. 'Reason', he says in this world, is 'natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father...their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged'.33 Locke is a deeply religious Christian who accepts revelation as a sort of knowledge and... | |
 | Barbara A. McGraw, Jo Renee Formicola - 2005 - 368 Seiten
...Locke, "Essay on Human Understanding," book 4, chap. 19, para. 4, in The Works of John Locke, 2:273 ("Reason is natural revelation whereby the eternal...has laid within the reach of their natural faculties . . ."). See also John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 438—39, equating nature and reason.... | |
 | Charles Upton - 2005 - 520 Seiten
...1nstead Locke stated that knowledge through reason consists primarily of a natural revelation. He said, Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal...light and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to humankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation... | |
 | Alan Cromartie - 2006 - 18 Seiten
...the role a puritan might have attributed to conscience. 35 If weight is given to its definition as 'natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of...communicates to mankind that portion of truth, which he hath laid within the reach of their natural faculties', 3 then Locke's near-anarchist individualism... | |
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Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. 
