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The question posed is how the Philosopher John Locke can accept divine revelation and at the same time believe in man's ability to reason. Quotes from two of Locke's essays reveal that he justified what might be considered revelation (the word of the Bible) by using reasoning. In this way his philosophy and actions were both consistent and made sense.

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John Locke: Social Contracts and Metaphysical Truth John Locke was a late 17^th Century thinker and one of the leading philosophers of the Enlightenment Period. He is best known for two writings: "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" and "Two Treatises of Government." In the first he outlines important ideas of modern Empiricism. This means that the human mind begins as a neutral blank or "tabula rasa" and all that we learn is through reason and experience. This idea philosophically justified the methods of his Enlightenment contemporaries like Isaac Newton who were developing a scientific method for learning about our

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