John Locke

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Locke's method ran on two trains at once, and separating them has never been possible. In epistemology, he was a compiler and an analyst rather than a system-builder: he took the empiricist premise that all knowledge derives from experience and worked it into a moral psychology detailed enough to support arguments about education, law, and religion…

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