Reasoned Freedom: John Locke and Enlightenment. (book reviews)

This is the third book by Peter A. Schouls of the University of Alberta on the foundations of Enlightenment rationalism as they are given in the thought of Descartes and Locke. In the first part of Reasoned Freedom, Schouls restates and elaborates his point that Locke's idea of general reasoning, as distinct from his particular epistemology, is substantially the same as Descartes's.

And since reason proceeds by resolving complex opinions into simple elements and recomposing them into clear and distinct results, it is inherently critical of received complexes of experience and ...

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