 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 sivua
...places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. Our business here is not to know all things,...concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures where by a rational creature, put in that state in which man is in, in this world, may and ought to... | |
 | Duncan Ivison - 1997 - 258 sivua
...concern our Conduct": "if we can find out the Measures, whereby a rational creature put in that State, which man is in this World, may, and ought to govern...Opinions, and Actions depending thereon, we need not be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge" (EHU 1.1.16). Two themes are important here:... | |
 | Michael D. Vose - 1999 - 650 sivua
...speculative theologians, did most to improve human behaviour. 'Our business here," Locke had said, 'is not to know all things, but those which concern...measures whereby a rational creature put in that state, which man is in in this world, may, and ought to govern his opinions depending thereon, we need not... | |
 | Alvin Plantinga - 2000 - 528 sivua
...most part) explicitly say; their progenitor Locke, however, does say. His question, you recall, is how "a rational creature, put in that state in which man...govern his opinions, and actions depending thereon." And his answer, as we have seen, is that a rational creature in our circumstances ought to govern his... | |
 | Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs - 2003 - 378 sivua
...linguistic order is necessary: "If we can find out those measures, whereby a rational creature . . . may and ought to govern his opinions, and actions...troubled that some other things escape our knowledge" (I: 31). The rational interrogation of words in terms of their relations to sense data can reveal the... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 668 sivua
...it will take a well-informed experience as the general and sufficient rule for the conduct of life. Our Business here is not to know all things, but those...Measures, whereby a Rational creature put in that State, which Man is in, in this World, may, and ought to govern his Opinions, and Actions depending thereon,... | |
 | Lex Newman - 2007 - 18 sivua
...work, and his summary of the human condition informs the overall shape and structure of the Essay. Our Business here is not to know all things, but those...Measures, whereby a rational Creature put in that State, which Man is in, in this World, may, and ought to govern his Opinions, and Actions depending thereon,... | |
 | Roger Woolhouse - 2007 - 35 sivua
...of discontented pessimism and scepticism, if we seek knowledge beyond our God-given natural limits. "Our business here is not to know all things, but...those measures, whereby a rational creature put in the state, which man is in, in this world, may, and ought to govern his opinions and actions depending... | |
 | John Locke - 1800 - 540 sivua
...places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. Our business here is not to know all things,...whereby a rational creature, put in that state in whicli man is in, in this world, may and ought to govern his opinions, and actions depending thereon,... | |
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Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures, whereby a rational creature, put in that state in which man is in this world, may and ought to govern his opinions, and actions depending... 
