work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5324,Blank Slate; Lockean Philosophy,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"Vain therefore, and entirely to be rejected, is that Principle published to the World, by a celebrated Philosopher of the last Century, namely, that the Soul in its first created State, has nothing in it, but is a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper. A Fiction, that is contra- [end page 100] dicted by all that we know of every created Thing in Nature.
For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part. And every Thing, or Creature is That, which it is, because the Powers of this World, or Properties of Nature, are in such, or such a Combination included, or treasured up in its Essence, and give it its Difference from other Things. --But nothing through all this Universe has in its Essence, only the Nature of a Rasa Tabula, or blank paper, but is in its kind, full of Riches, and Powers of all outward Nature.
(pp. 100-1)",,14296,•I've included twice: Tabula Rasa and Paper,"""Vain therefore, and entirely to be rejected, is that Principle published to the World, by a celebrated Philosopher of the last Century, namely, that the Soul in its first created State, has nothing in it, but is a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper.""",Writing,2009-09-14 19:40:31 UTC,""
5324,"",Searching in ECCO,2006-10-13 00:00:00 UTC,"Vain therefore, and entirely to be rejected, is that Principle published to the World, by a celebrated Philosopher of the last Century, namely, that the Soul in its first created State, has nothing in it, but is a mere Rasa Tabula, or blank Paper. A Fiction, that is contra- [end page 100] dicted by all that we know of every created Thing in Nature.
For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part. And every Thing, or Creature is That, which it is, because the Powers of this World, or Properties of Nature, are in such, or such a Combination included, or treasured up in its Essence, and give it its Difference from other Things. --But nothing through all this Universe has in its Essence, only the Nature of a Rasa Tabula, or blank paper, but is in its kind, full of Riches, and Powers of all outward Nature.
(pp. 100-1)",,14298,"","""For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part.""","",2009-09-14 19:40:32 UTC,""