PHIL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hylas, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Personal Identity

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2010
• Professor: Christopher Lay

Document Summary

If universal agreement did exist about something, this agreement might have come about in a way other than through innate knowledge. Human beings cannot have ideas in their minds of which they are not aware, so that people cannot be said to possess even the most basic principles until they are taught them or think them through for themselves. Locke is most well know for political philosophy. Does not believe in plutonian innate knowledge . Speculative: state of things as they are. Widespread disagreement among competent judges on moral concerns: if we all had innate knowledge, everyone would agree about things. If as soon as we have reason, its arbitrary: seems foolish to state that something can just come to be conscious and not understand it. Nothing innate about speculative & practical, no amount of soul searching will nd this without learning.