PHIL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Empirical Evidence, German Idealism
12 Apr 2016
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Does not believe god needs to be based off experience. Other than special circumstances, like god, most things need to be proved through experience. Introspection from experiences, reflecting on mental states. Locke does not want to dismiss religion, etc. as meaningless because they do not follow a sense experience. Spiritual substances, something that is thinking your thoughts. Idea on personal identity: knows he is the same person changeable and persists through change knowledge of personal identity spiritual substance could be different though. If it isn"t based on experience, it isn"t knowledge. Psychological continuity (memory) makes you the same person over time. If we have genuine knowledge, must have basic support. Logical conclusion of empiricism, common sense knowledge is undermined. Object causes this idea in your mind, but the idea is the first thing you are aware of. By his own theory, the only thing you experience is ideas, not objects. No basis for external objects - goes beyond experiences.
