PHIL 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Personal Identity, Tabula Rasa, Innatism
19 Apr 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Colour/ things you can perceive aren"t primary or secondary distinction, primary distinction: mass. Rationalists: empiricism is driven by an epistemology first approach - the limits of our knowledge dictate the ultimate limits of our philosophical theorizing. Ideas in the essay: the term idea is a technical term for locke, they are the conscious contents of our minds. If there is universal consent wrt some idea or principle, then that idea or principle is innate: p2. There is universal consent wrt certain ideas or principles: conc. If there are innate principles or propositions, then children and idiots should be aware of and understand them: p2. Children and idiots are not aware of nor do they understand innate principles or propositions: conc. Therefore, there are no innate principles or propositions. Innate principles or propositions ought to be perceived immediately by any mind that has them: to have an idea is to be consciously aware of it (to perceive it in locke"s parlance)
