PHIL 1000 Lecture : 241011.doc
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It"s become dominant but that doesn"t mean rationalism has been discredited. Part of the process is to see locke"s criticism of innate ideas. Ideas for locke is essientially thinking whatever goes on up there . We want to figure out how all of the ideas get into our consciousness. These philsophers including locke assumed the idea of a mind. The implications of getting rid of the mind was anti-religious instead of using the word mind, we"ll use the word consciousness. That which is available there for our thinking to work upon. What locke thinks is the first task is to show the origin of our ideas. We"ll see the same process as hume in regards to sense impressions. If epistemology is to be established you must talk about the consciousness. If locke is going to be a strict empiricist than he must eliminate innate ideas.
