Sarahs Monkey
03-12-05, 06:36 PM
Everyone knows John Locke is a reference to the philosopher John Locke, but did you know there was a writer/thinker who shares Boone's last name? Thomas Carlyle lived from 1795 to 1881 and was a leading figuring the Victorian Era.
"Carlyle opposed analytic reasoning and quasi-scientific treatment of social questions by the rationalist political economists, and advocated the more emotional and intuitive approach of the 18th and 19th century German thinkers like Richter and Goethe. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus was a disguised spiritual autobiography, in which he faces the tendencies to intellectual skepticism and dedicates himself to a life of spiritual affirmation."
www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carlyle.htm (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carlyle.htm)
Considering Boone's connection the the spiritual Locke, the above paragraph is very interesting.
"Carlyle opposed analytic reasoning and quasi-scientific treatment of social questions by the rationalist political economists, and advocated the more emotional and intuitive approach of the 18th and 19th century German thinkers like Richter and Goethe. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus was a disguised spiritual autobiography, in which he faces the tendencies to intellectual skepticism and dedicates himself to a life of spiritual affirmation."
www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carlyle.htm (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carlyle.htm)
Considering Boone's connection the the spiritual Locke, the above paragraph is very interesting.