Compare And Contrast John Locke And Kant

John Locke (1683-1704) is known and recognized for many things. One of which being the establishment of natural human rights. However, generically speaking John Locke is named an empiricist. Which by definition is a philosophical doctrine: claiming that all knowledge is only derived from physical sensory experiences. John Locke believed that all that can be humanly learned and understood can only be sought through experience. Consequently Locke believed that concentrating on the exterior realms of reality to by fruitless. Locke claimed that we must place our faith in the here and now- pondering human experience and physical reality, not in abstract speculations. This was a very unique concept for the time. So many philosophers both past, present,

Kant concluded that there are two separate worlds. One is a physical world equipped with scientific apparatus to study and prove theories: ruled by factual laws; as well as another world of morality and mortality, which were ruled by universal obligatory moral laws. Kant claimed that these two worlds were both developed through experience and knowledge, so are therefore justified. Consequently the two realms are both ruled and outlined by some form of law, thus making the concept of religion: rational. Therefore justifying and reconciling the concept of religion with the

Although long after Hegel’s time, Marx considered himself a philosophical disciple of Hegel’s. However, Marx took Hegel’s creation and converted the concept of dialectic ideas into the realm of socioeconomic trends. Marx argues that all of history has been flooded with class conflicts and aristocracies. Marx argues that such hierarchies are always bound to cause issues and raise conflict. The idea that economic forces make history is a very obtrusive observation. Yet if one looks back, such theory is proven time and time again. The colonies in North America settled by the British were poor and down trod, which lead to tax conflicts and poverty stricken citizens, who would then rise up and enact a rebellion against Great Britain, ultimately changing the course of history. One could also include the US industrial revolution; for it was through low pay and degrading work conditions that lead to the ultimate segregation of the classes, causing a revolution in child labor, pay grade, and labor