SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Personal Boundaries, Tabula Rasa, Empiricism
7 Apr 2014
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Soan 2111 lecture #11 october 2nd, 2013. John locke: (1632 1704) british empiricism = life. What locke is talking about in regards to experience (it all relates to locke) All knowledge from the world should come through people"s senses. Forget pure reason for the root of knowledge: from taste, touch, smell and sight. Simple ideas: raw material the mind can play with these simple ideas. Locke distances the mind from the external world. Barclay was threatened by locke because his thoughts challenged religion. Hume thought that newton had given great science of the physical world, and hume"s great idea was to do what newton had done to the scientific world, to the human world. In place of the divine rights of kings locke proposed a government based on reason and natural rights: getting into locke"s social contract, natural rights not formed by government. My work my stuff connection between labour and the right of ownership helped promote capitalism.
