John Locke, Edward Stillingfleet and the Quarrel over Consensus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7949164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Paul Carey (0000-0002-7311-0038, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, corresponding author), Daniel Carey (0000-0001-5790-9774) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-80 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2017.0215 |
| OpenAlex | W2590584597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
Philosophical antagonism and dispute — by no means confined to the early modern period — nonetheless enjoyed a moment of particular ferment as new methods and orientations on questions of epistemology and ethics developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. John Locke played a key part in them with controversies initiated by the Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690). This essay develops a wider typology of modes of philosophical quarrelling by focusing on a key debate — the issue of whether human nature came pre-endowed with innate ideas and principles, resulting in a moral consensus across mankind, or remained, on the contrary, dependent on reason to achieve moral insight, and, in practice, divided by diverse and irreconcilable cultural practices as a result of the force of custom and the limited purchase of reason. The essay ultimately concludes on the idea that we should not only attend to the genealogy of disputes but also to the morphology of disputation as a practice
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Key (lock · Period (music · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Bach Studies and Logistics Development · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |