The Rationalism Elements In Locke's Empiricism

Locke is an significant philosophers of modern times,playing an important role in the process of the manner of philosophy thinking.This paper attempts to xeplore the contradictory performance of Locke's thought,which has an impact on the development of empiricism philosophy.Locke is a moderate liberalist and not extreme.As an empiricist,although the essence of his philosophy is empiristic,but there has been the contradiction in his theoretical works(philosophy,beliefs and political theory).Then the contradiction is that there are transcendental elments,use of the rationalism thinking way and the gain of the rational logic results when he is sticking to the empiricism principle.Explore the impact of the Locke.s empiricism is this paper's attempt. No matter political ideas or theoretical study,the moderate liberalist which Locke has shown is an expression of the basic contradiction which is in the thinking process in essence..The contrdicion of the thinking and existence,sensibility and ration is always accompanied with the cognition's development,and the difference is on the focus of distinct periods.The focu in the classical times is the question of the essence,when it goes to the Medival,the explore to the nominalist and realism is the major issues.and modern philosophy's key question is shown in the different opinions of the empiricism and rationalism.First,when the ancient philosophers face the complex objective world,they use a geniue existence to unify and interpret the world coinstantaneous.The root is the Greek philosphy's logical starting poin,and is also the epistemology's object.If such objects is considered as sentimental existence,then we can understand it only through sensory feelings.When the philosophy is based on the sentimental things,some material existence will be regarded as the primitive and basic existence,and is used to construct and interpret the world.If the abstract things is regarded as the understanding target,then we must use the rational thinking to grasp it,and use a possible abstract existence to explain the world.But this situation has to face the problem that the thinking is separated from the existence,the general deviates from the individual,and the world's unity can not be interpreted correct..During theis period,the contradictions development of the emotional and rational is based on the emotional thinking,the rational thinking is not sufficiently developed.Before Socrates,philosophy has obvious characteristics of the object,even the subjective understanding is olso take the objective things as its major target.When the philosophy is developed to the classical periods,the basic questions of the relation between the emotion and ration,the general and individual ,which is the epistemology's radical problems,is on the vision of of the philosophy theory,t this provides rich theory content for the further development of philosophy.Secondly,philosophy is ontology before modern times overall, the epistemology serves the ontology.Modern philosophy form the empiricism and rationalism in the reflection of the science.The empiricism emphasizes the use of the experiment and observe, it advocates that knowledge origins from the emotional experience.And the rationalism stresses the use of the interpretation and inference,and advocates the knowledge is from the rational thinking.Locke is an empiricist of modern times.He plays an important role in the chang from the ontology to the epistemology,because he changes the traditional thinking form,and try to develop philosophy as reflective and conscious.He processes the premise critical to the philosophy study,that is the reflection of the main's understanding capacity.It is exactly because of this reason,Locke is regarded as a criticism philosopher.He thinks that the epistemology's core issue can be solved only when we reflect the main's thinking capacity.On the inherit of Bacon's empiricism,Locke complete the system interpretation on the empiricism thinking way,he is the logical starting point of the empiricism,and also the starting point of the modern philosophy.However,because the Descartes philosophy'impact, espicialy his keen awareness on the mathematical method which can obtain the reliable knowledge, in the process of epistemology system's initiate,his philosophy is due to not just a simple analysis,but the theory has obvious rational elments,which is manifested in the exposition of the entity, connection and the truth.The entity is also the key factors in upholding the world as understanding object in modern times,Locke's exposition on entity is clearly in the metaphusical sense of the term.On the entity's empirical source(essence in name),Locke try to find a rational support for the emotional existence, realizing the unityof the thinking process,understanding process(thinking and existence,sentimental things and actuality).It has been shown that,the pursue of the unity has been beyond the principled stand of the empiricism.Because this is a process which emotional concrete reaches to the rational abstract.So Engels criticized empiricist as this,"even when they study the abstract things,they also thinks they are in the field of the sensible understanding".The exposition of the concept of connection is another performance of his transcendental philosophy,because from the empiricism,we can experience the things'existence,but can not percept the relation of things.Locke admits that,it is not within things real existence,but is additional outside.In fact,this is the reflection in the internal consciousness of external links,which should be the internal links'reflection and manifestation form.Locke finally attributes the connection to simpy concept when he is tanscendantal at the same time.Locke has a key point in his exposition of the truth which is that,recognition of the abstract concepts can shape the widespread necesstiy's understanding,and the knowledge of the specific things only form the chanciness cognition.This is a response to the modern philosophy which Locke has made in the empiricism point,and also be an unconscious grasp to the relationship of the thinking and the existence.In short,as a modern empiricist,Locke is not restricted to the satus and role of empiricism,his philosophy's transcendental factor enlightenments the empiricism and also edifications the rationalism.The contradiction of his philosophy promote further differentiation of empiricism and rationalism.Fundamentally speaking,Locke's philosophy make the contradiction,which is between the sensibility and ration,thinking and existence,expressed in the philosophical epistemology clearly.In additiona,Locke reflects the main's understanding capacity self-consciously,which make Locke's philosophy opens a critical philosophy in an ultimate sense,and make modern philosophy develop to the end-result theory of German philosophy.