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John Dunn original writing
John Locke
Collaborationist role
During his exile in Amsterdam, Locke would have been receptive to the ‘Counter-Renaissance’ ideas of Spinoza. The philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein argues that during his five years in Holland, Locke chose his friends ‘from among the same freethinking members of dissenting Protestant groups as Spinoza's small group of loyal confidants’.53 Spinoza had died in 1677, but Locke almost certainly met men in Amsterdam who spoke of the author of the Ethics, whose ideas were compatible with the expansionist ambitions of a commercial oligarchy. Locke accompanied William of Orange's wife back to England in 1688, a high profile indication of his collaborationist role in the build-up to the invasion.
From Child of Encounter
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From the archive:
Beginning, always 2
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Evola - formless to formed
Transmutation – stated Evola – must always proceed from ‘formless universality’ to ‘formed individuality’ and not the other way around.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
By using Aristotle as the comparator to Plato in De Differentiis, Plethon was also targeting his arguments against the prevailing scholasticism of the Roman Church, which was heavily influenced by Aquinas’ Aristotelianism. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arc
I will follow these routes and others by map and by cycling and motorcycling along the roads to unearth the archaeology of this ancient Gough map and the later accretions that followed in its path.
John Dunn
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