...responsibility. In his An Essay Concerning the Understanding, Knowledge, Opinion and Assent, he writes: "Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our Conduct." Our essential search is to "find out those Measures, whereby a rational Creature put in that State,...

...The aim of the Essay was much more limited than Leibniz saw; in I, i, 6 Locke had pointed out that 'our Business here is not to know all Things, but those which concern our Conduct,' ie, conduct in regard to nature as the Royal Society would have understood it. The design of the Essay...

...for humanity's self-fulfillment before any other human interest. Locke, for example, believed that "our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct," and that "if we can find out those measures whereby a rational creature, put in this state in which...

...are not to be understood. It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean....concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures where by a rational creature, put in that state in which man is in, in this world, may and ought to...

...sailor to know the length ofhis line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. 'Tis well he knows, that it is long enough to reach the...know all things, but those which concern our conduct. (i,1,5-6) Recommending grateful contentment with our limits, on the ground that our knowledge is sufficient...

...Understanding, his monumental effort to decipher what the mind can know of things that concern everyday conduct. "It is well he knows that it is long enough to reach...caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him."28 No wonder Mayflower swung back, toward deep water, toward a wilderness of waves perhaps, but...

...apparatus in civil society and by God in the afterlife. Locke tells us that the business of the Essay is "not to know all things, but those which concern our Conduct": "if we can find out the Measures, whereby a rational creature put in that State, which man is in this World, may, and ought...

...names, we can always obtain demonstrations (IV.IV.7-10, pp. 565-8). "Our business here," Locke says, "is not to know all things, but those which concern our Conduct" (II6, p. 46). Morality provides the indispensable guidance for this task. Locke makes much of the limitations...

...Limits of Imaginary Cases It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean....him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1:1:6 I: Introduction The problem of personal identity...

...religious ideas as is clear from his 266 A Critical History of Western Philosophy following expressions. "Our business here is not to know all things but those which concern our conduct." "Morality is the proper business and science of mankind in general." "Morality and Divinity are those...