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...anyone who thinks this metaphysical formula has nothing to do with the price of eggs, Professor Northrop cites chapter & verse. As a consequence of it, he argues, Locke saw no purpose in government except the protection of private property; and in consequence of that, the U.S. Government has failed to this day to understand the Mexican and other foreign governments. As another consequence, Protestant Christianity conceived the human soul differently from Catholic Christianity, in consequence of which Protestantism shared the poverty and confusion of "modern" cultures as Catholicism did not. As a further consequence, Western eggs and everything else have...
Stark Realism. Locke's philosophy was elaborated and to some extent corrected by the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Hegel followed Kant, and Marx followed Hegel. One secret of the "arrogance" displayed by Germany and later by Communist Russia toward Britain and the U.S., Northrop observes, has been their assurance that their philosophical foundations were more modern and hence superior...
Professor Northrop's analysis of Russia faces the fact of Communist success: of the deliberate, swift and powerful application of a philosophy, Marx's, in human history. The Marxian dialectic was too rigid for the facts. But at least "it was high time that economic and political theory . . . treated man as a creature with a body, having continuous energy requirements in the form of food to maintain even his human existence...
...knowledge there are not three terms, as Locke thought, but two; Northrop calls them the esthetic (e.g., a book in your hand) and the theoretical (e.g., your inferences about its writer). "The nature of things, including both the observer and the observed, is composed of two factors or components, the one given immediately and purely empirically with certainty; the other having existence known with equal certainty, but known as to its specific formal . . . content only hypothetically...
...What Northrop calls the esthetic component is what Western artists have sometimes called the sense of life. It is existence appreciated. It is what we know of life by seeing and feeling, by intuition, not by reasoning...