Hanging with History

136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe


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Newtonian philosophy, and John Locke, along with Francis Bacon has an exciting empirical philosophical package that took Europe by storm in the 1740s, with the able assistance of Voltaire.  Locke offered an epistemology interesting to philosophers, but people like Montesquieu were more taken by his description of the interaction between political players, early public choice theory.  The excitement came from the Baconian program, backed by the vivid reality of real discoveries and solutions by Boyle and Newton.

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Hanging with HistoryBy Harald Hansen

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