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The Philosophy of William Blake

Mark Vernon looks at the imaginative thinking of an imaginative artist.

The painter, poet, and engraver, William Blake (1757-1827) is not usually categorized as a philosopher, but I think otherwise. He engaged with the great thinkers of his day – particularly the three he regularly references as an intellectual triumvirate: Bacon, Newton, and Locke. Moreover, I reckon his ideas could be transformative now.

Self-portrait as Job – William Blake

Blake was born in Georgian England.

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