"[A]ll the World was America" : The Transatlantic (Post)Coloniality of John Locke, William Bartram, and the Declaration of Independence

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pramod Kumar Mishra
Keyword(s):  
John Locke ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
William Bartram ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Arthur Prior A ‘Young Progressive’ Letters to Ursula Bethell and to Hugh Teague 1936-1941.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Whiteford
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Temporal Logic ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Tense Logic ◽  
Arthur Prior ◽  
The World ◽  
Rural Township

Arthur Prior is scarcely a household name in New Zealand, but in some respects his story repeats a narrative we like to think of as quintessentially Kiwi—that of the small town boy who ‘makes it’ on the world stage. Born and raised in the rural township of Masterton in 1914, Prior became a leading philosopher of the 20th century, feted for his invention of tense logic (or temporal logic as it is now called), invited by no less a figure than Gilbert Ryle to deliver the prestigious John Locke lectures in Oxford in 1956, offered a Chair in Philosophy at Manchester in 1958, then a Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1966. Tragically, he died at the relatively young age of 54, but he remains one of the central figures in the development of logic in the 20th century.

Internationalism and Democracy

Philosophy ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-512
Author(s):  
Mark F. Plattner
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
Liberal Internationalism ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
International Authority ◽  
Traditional Understanding

The current transatlantic debate over multilateralism reveals that the traditional understanding of liberal internationalism is being transcended in favor of “globalism.” The latter is a doctrine that goes well beyond favoring international cooperation among states; in fact, the new globalism is intrinsically hostile to the sovereignty of the nation-state. Thus it runs counter to the basic liberal understanding of the nature of the political order, as reflected in the American Declaration of Independence and, on a more philosophical level, in the political teaching of John Locke. The Declaration and the Lockean teaching proclaim universal principles, but hold that the implementation of these principles should be the business not of some international authority but of democratically elected and accountable national

The Historical Background

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svend Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This chapter presents a selected history of Western philosophy from the Greeks to modern times, arguing that the very idea of qualitative research is a child of modernity’s split between the objective and subjective, quanta and qualia. This split became significant with the birth of modern natural science (Galilei, Newton, and Descartes), giving rise to the question of how to study those aspects of the world that do not seem to fit the perspective of the physical sciences. This question was answered in different ways by the British empiricists from John Locke onwards and also by Immanuel Kant in Germany.

Understanding Is Not Enough

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Emilia A. Tajsin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
John Locke ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Main Ideas

John Locke was one of the first empiricists of the age of modernity who created a masterpiece on systematic gnoseology, and the first Enlightener whose ideas on ethics, law, and politics, preceded and made possible the 18th century and the Great French Revolution, and inspired the key wordings in the American Declaration of Independence. The slogan “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” influenced the course of history becoming the banner “Freedom, Equality, Fraternity” for all revolutionary movements. However, “Possessions” as part of Locke’s slogan is treated and criticized very frequently and on different grounds. The main questions are: Is reason enough for enlightening, and, could property be the fourth slogan of a social revolution? This paper is meant to be a synopsis of Locke’s main ideas, showing their utmost importance for the contemporary world, as well as examining the latest changes in the role performed by the present-day media, now acting as the new means for enlightening.

Review of Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science by Peter Walmsley

Locke Studies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
G. A. J. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
John Locke ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Rhetoric Of Science ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

From at least Kenneth MacLean’s John Locke and English Literature of the Eighteenth Century (1936) Locke’s Essay has been the subject of a large number of works that are classified as contributions to literary criticism. Indeed, it is doubtful if any other work of philosophy in English has attracted such attention. The reasons for this are undoubtedly overdetermined. No other work of modern philosophy, and perhaps no other work of any kind, had such an impact as did Locke’s on the eighteenth century. But Walmsley’s is not an attempt to chart that impact. Rather, it sets out to examine Locke’s language and relate it to his contemporaries, especially those who would now be regarded as scientists, even though the term in Locke’s day did not exist. It was Locke’s fellow members of the Royal Society, the virtuosi of Oxford and London and their fellow-travellers, to whom the Essay was addressed, and his language shared their common assumptions about the world at large and our place in it. It was Locke’s task in part to provide argument for those assumptions and to provide a grounding for a view of the world that was to hold sway—indeed, perhaps it still does—for at least a century.

3. Radical philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Stephen Gaukroger ◽  
Knox Peden
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Imagination

Cartesian rationalism was challenged in the French public imagination by the theories of John Locke. ‘Radical philosophy: the eighteenth century’ looks at how philosophers like d’Alembert popularized Lockean ideas about how humans experience the world through sensation and reflection. Where did language come from? What can babies, statues, and blind people teach us about sensibility? Should human bodies be perfected by medicine, science, and society? Rousseau wrote that external impressions were as important as innate thoughts and that humans were corrupted by the world. Voltaire argued that Christianity was only one of many religions and the West only one region.

Contemporary British Political Thought

1952 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Catlin
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
John Locke ◽  
The United States ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The World ◽  
European Civilization

The ideas of the bloodless and “glorious Revolution” of 1688, and especially those of John Locke, inspired the Founding Fathers of the United States and, both directly and indirectly, influenced the French Revolution. In the nineteenth century a successful Britain also made her great contribution to European civilization, and this not least in terms of her political ideas and of her parliamentary institutions. Politically it would be quite accurate to say that she led the world.In this present generation, however, England is in a poorer way as a fount of political ideas than she has been for centuries. The great succession of Occam and Fortescue, More and Hooker, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Bentham, the Mills, Green, even Spencer, perhaps Bradley, seems to be broken. Many British writers are too content to subedit Hegel or Marx and to explain what they really meant. The most eminent now living, Lord Russell, is primarily a mathematical philosopher.

Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine. By Maria Popova. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 210p. $99.00.

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-215
Author(s):  
Justin Crowe
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Judicial Independence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Emerging Democracies ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Law And Courts ◽  
The World

In the United States, the borderline obsessive academic focus with judicial independence as a political science concept would lead one to believe that judicial independence as an empirical political reality is persistently endangered. And yet, periodic partisan apoplexy about controversial Supreme Court decisions notwithstanding, it is anything but: Even with judicial potency in polities as disparate as Israel, India, and Germany, the American judiciary remains perhaps the most powerful and most stable in the world. But with all due respect to John Locke, all the world is emphatically not America. Elsewhere, of course, there are locales where the climate surrounding law and courts is rather different, where judicial independence is inconsistent, threatened, or downright fictitious. It is in the study of these nations that judicial independence deserves the central place in public law scholarship it already occupies in America. And with the publication of Maria Popova's Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies, students of at least two sets of those nations—post-Soviet states specifically and emerging democracies more generally—have both a clarion call for what they could be studying and a first-rate example of how they could be studying it.

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