Locke has often been hailed as the father of an empiricism that provided a philosophical basis to natural science in the Age of Enlightenment. In this article his empiricism is compared with that of the little known Dutch Aristotelian professor Gerardus de Vries. There are striking parallels between Locke's brand of mechanist empiricism and the pragmatic and flexible Aristotelianism of De Vries. These parallels put strictures on both the archaic character of the Aristotelianism embraced by De Vries and on the modern and forward-looking character of Locke's philosophy of science.
Descartes in the classroom : teaching Cartesian philosophy in the early modern age (edited by Davide Cellamare, Mattia Mantovani). Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2023. - P. 131-253
Liick en lof-reden, op het afsterven van .... Petrus van Maastricht .... / welke .... 's anderen daags na de begraeffenisse, gedaen heeft Henricus Pontanus ; vert. door C.T.V.D.M.. - Leyden : Jan van Damme, 1706. - p. 25-28
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Evers deel I
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1706
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4 p.
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Titel
Chorus musarum plorans seu lugubria in …. D. Gerhardi de Vries, philosophiae doctoris & professoris, nec non s.s. theologiae professoris extraordinarii in Academiâ Ultrajectinâ … carmina seu naenniae
Abstract
Hierin gedichten van : E. S. van Zurk ; H. Mascamp