Concetti Chiave
- The Restoration period emphasized the use of reason in literature, reflecting the era's philosophical and scientific interests.
- Prose from this time often employed language accessible to artisans, countrymen, and merchants, as seen in the works of Thomas Sprat.
- Thomas Hobbes had a pessimistic view of human nature, advocating for governance by a single sovereign.
- John Locke, in contrast, held an optimistic perspective, viewing reason as the dominant human faculty and linking knowledge to experience.
- Locke is regarded as a precursor to English empiricism due to his belief in knowledge derived from experience.
In the literature of the Restoration it was very important the use of the reason. In fact in prose of this period it was easy bump to philosophical and scientific theories, as in works of Thomas Sprat, written with common language of artisans, countrymen or merchants. Regarding philosophy, the most important figures were Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. The first had a pessimistic view about the human condition and maintained that people should be governed by a single sovereign. While, the second, had an optimistic vision of the human nature and believed that the reason was the dominant faculty of man and that the knowledge derived from experience. For this reason he is considered the forerunner of the English empiricism.
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