A Brilliant Mind
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Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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A Brilliant Mind
With our thinking capacity and knowledge we cannot go beyond the ideas or concepts we have-ideas are the material thought and knowledge- and the ideas we have are attained through experience. -John Locke
John Locke is Think Magazine's BRILLIANT MIND? for the month of May! He was an English philosopher who was born in 1632 and died in 1704. He was an Empiricist, which meant that his ideas were normally opposite those ideas of a rationalist. As an Empiricist Locke believed that all the material for knowledge, ideas and concepts are derived from experience.One of the basic assumptions underlying any detective novel is a sense of social order. The novelist assumes that the reader agrees that killing people is wrong; it does not matter if the victims are exemplary citizens or odious individuals, it is the mere act of snuffing out another's life that is against the social order. In P.D. James' A Mind To Murder, Nurse Marion Bolam's murder of her stuffy and self-righteous cousin Enid illustrates a situation where the nurse and her invalid mother had suffered from her cousin's stinginess; James gives us a clear look at the murderer's fear that if Enid had been given time to change her will as she had threatened to do, the Marion and her mother would never get the money to which they considered themselves entitled. However, James urges us to understand, this does not matter. Murder, for whatever reason it is committed, is still murder, and it is always wrong. However, the murder of Enid Bolam is not the only violation of the social order which James describes in this book.
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