tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14714181470981807732011-08-13T05:48:56.795-07:00Where 'Hegel's Hotel' (HH) is the name of this philosophical treatise and forum, consisting of a network of some 30-50 evolving blogsites on such subject matters as: introductions, narcissism, language, semantics, epistemology, and truth, ethics, the history of philosophy, psychology, politics and more...david gordon bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650068892347220493noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1471418147098180773.post-38751788272931537672007-06-05T09:09:00.000-07:002009-06-09T19:20:21.893-07:00The centre of the Enlightenment -- which had different renditions: English, Scottish, French, English, American, German -- was unquestionably Paris, France. <br /><br />However, to go back to the beginning of the Enlightenment period which I will partly arbitrarly label as 1667, we need to go to England and the beginning of the philosophy of John Locke. <br /><br />Now obviously, Locke's philosophy didn't fall out of the sky; there were many, many philosophers who could be called 'pre-Enlightenment philosophers' who carried the spirit of The Enlightenment long before 1667, opening the door of influence for special people like John Locke, Montesque, Jefferson, and Franklin to build from. <br /><br />Enlightenment Philosophy was built partly from philosophers like Aristotle, Cicero, Epicurus, and Roger Bacon as well as William of Occam, Galileo, Kepler, Sir Francis Bacon, and Issac Newton -- even as far back as Thales if you wanted to go back that far -- back to any philosopher who was using science (empiricism), reason, and humanistic ethics in any down to earth, common sense fashion. <br /><br />In this section, we will start with Locke's political philosophy whereas we will deal with his epistemology (study of knowledge) in the section on British Empiricism. <br /><br />dgbn, June 5-6th, 2007, modified June 9th, 2009.<br /><br />-- David Gordon Bain<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1471418147098180773-3875178827293153767?l=gap-dgbnphilosophytheenlightenment.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>david gordon bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650068892347220493noreply@blogger.com0