PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hylas, Tabula Rasa, Hypokeimenon
17 Mar 2016
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Idealism (phenomenalism) is the view that the external world is created by the mind. Material objects exist, but really consists of nothing but ideas: idealism is a metaphysical thesis. He held that all knowledge originates in the senses, and that only sensory experience is suicient for discovering truth: but locke is not an idealist. Berkeley"s idealist theory of knowledge was presented in response to locke"s account. Recall locke"s theory of knowledge: at birth, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) All ideas, and thus all knowledge, must come from experience (a posteriori) All the mind has access to are its own ideas (of sensaion and relecion) We are separated from direct experience of the external world by a veil of percepion(which blocks us from perceiving of world as it is) However, as a devout chrisian locke felt he needed to posit a second spiritual substance.
