PHI 1500 Lecture 24: End of Locke's Philosophy
26 Nov 2016
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Locke represents the school of sensationalism/ empiricism: result of experiences, based on our five senses. What do you like about locke"s philosophy: used our senses, idea of gaining knowledge through our senses, what"s missing, can"t theorize concepts or knowledge, believed that abstractions cannot help us or change our knowledge. It"s not a unique experience for the human. They"ve never experienced this: this is why knowledge is different for humans and animals, locke excluded mind from creativity. Creative imagination is important: knowledge, without minds instructions for humans, mind is useless, mind is the guiding and controlling manager for your senses. If there is no mind with its controls and instructions, how can you control your knowledge: senses without knowledge overlooks the truth, when we gain new knowledge, we already have preliminary knowledge. The source of this is from our predecessors: why is the mind important, descarte initial move: reject all knowledge that is not provable.
