 | Jeremy Waldron - History - 2002 - 280 pages
...Excuse to an idle and untoward Servant, who would not attend his Business by Candle-light, to plead that he had not broad Sun-shine. The Candle that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our Purposes.7" "[T]hey have Light enough to lead them to the Knowledge of their Maker." The implicit reference... | |
 | Mary Midgley - Philosophy - 2002 - 228 pages
...one which will give any sense to the notion of 'farce'. 11 SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION AND HUMAN TRANSIENCE The candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes. John Locke LIVING WITH A CRIPPLED INTELLECT It is not surprising, however, that Monod's story has had... | |
 | Peter R. Anstey - Philosophy, British - 2003 - 232 pages
...Excuse to an idle and untoward Servant, who would not attend his Business by Candle-light, to plead that he had not broad Sun-shine. The Candle, that...in us, shines bright enough for all our Purposes. (Essay I. i. 5, pp. 45-6) Locke may stop short of actually calling the candle dim, but the implication... | |
 | Nancy Yousef - History - 2004 - 286 pages
...Excuse to an idle and untoward Servant, who would not attend his Business by Candlelight, to plead that he had not broad Sunshine. The Candle that is set up in us shines bright enough" (1.1.5). 21 Ayers, for example, sees that the tensions within Locke's argument on essences might generate... | |
 | Henry E. Allison - Philosophy - 2004 - 564 pages
...upon them are sufficient for our needs. As he eloquendy expresses it in the Introduction to the Essay, "The candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes."28 These purposes include not only knowledge of God and of our duty, but also what Locke... | |
 | Mary Midgley - Philosophy, British - 2005 - 430 pages
...servant, who would not attend his business by candlelight, to complain that he had not broad sunlight. The candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes ... If we will disbelieve everything because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much-what... | |
 | Wessel Stoker - Philosophy - 2006 - 286 pages
...excuse to an idle and untoward servant, who would not attend his business by candle light, to plead that he had not broad sunshine. The Candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes.10 In his view of knowledge Locke is a foundationalist. Our natural knowledge of God (and... | |
 | Roger Woolhouse - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 35 pages
...understandings are not suited." Not everything lies in "broad sunshine", but the "candle [our reason], that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all...discoveries we can make with this, ought to satisfy us." We are guilty of a kind of meddling pride, and run the risk of discontented pessimism and scepticism,... | |
 | Hannah Dawson - Political Science - 2007 - 295 pages
...capacity to discover 'whatsoever is necessary for the conveniences of life, and information of vertue'.3 'The candle, that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our purposes' and we must use it effortfully to light our way in this life and towards the next.39 God has given... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1800 - 540 pages
...excuse to an idle and untoward servant, who would not attend his business by candlelight, to plead that he had not broad sunshine. The candle that is...this, ought to satisfy us : and we shall then use Our understanding right, when we entertain all objects in that way and proportion that they are Buited... | |
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It will be no Excuse to an Idle and Untoward Servant, who would not attend his Business by Candle-light, to plead that he had not broad Sun-shine. The Candle, that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our Purposes. 
