PHI 3108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Eye, Compatibilism, Hylas
7 Sep 2016
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Likes to sneak his opinions into your thoughts through readings. He learnt under someone who was an absolutist. Believed all power belongs to the state locke didn"t agree. Very influential and important in his time. Has made his way into 21st century common sense. Locke"s atomism about bodies is called corpuscularianism. The fundamental things have to be tiny. The act of perception was routed through gods mind. Is far from 21st century common sense. Second source of ideas: simple and complex ideas, there are three complex ideas: When we have dreamless sleeps are we dead, if our mind is only working: possibly another conscious has taken over while we were sleeping and the. Went into a dreamless sleep when our original selves wake: i. e. sleep walking, black out drunk, greek mythology casper and pollex. Perception model 1: the eye perceives the idea/object being perceived, this process is an idea", involves two things - the perceiver and the object.
