The British Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley and Hume - Philosophy and Faith with Francis Selman on Totus2us

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Fr Francis on the British Empiricists: "While rationalism, the doctrine that knowledge is derived from the ideas of the mind, flourished on the European Continent from Descartes to Kant and Hegel, the British Isles produced their own brand of philosophy, known as empiricism, which comes from the Greek word for experience, empeiria. Empiricism is the doctrine that our ideas are derived from the experience of the senses. This is not to be equated with materialism. In this talk, I shall take the three chief British empiricists together: John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume." Visit Totus2us.com for much more.