Gender World Affairs Zoology . Locke and Hume, both empiricists believed ideas come from experiences but Hume wanted to prove that knowledge could be investigated through scientific methods along the lines of Newton. The writer argues that Locke's theories make more sense in terms of how knowledge is gained.
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A 5 page paper discussing the varying views of Hume, Locke, and Berkeley in relationship to the concept of material substance. All three of these philosophers were theorists of knowledge but each also had a slightly different opinion in regards to the issue of material matter. Also discussed is the validity of their reasoning, which is actually quite valid in its context. Bibliography lists 4 sources. It has been posited that for Machiavelli, politics is an unpredictable arena in which ambition, deception and violence render the idea of the common good meaningless, while Locke would argue that political or civil society exists only to preserve the rights of the individual.