PSYC 4008 : Test2 Book Notes
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Sir francis bacon and the social theories of thomas hobbes. We begin with john locke, however, usually considered the founder of this movement. An essay concerning human understanding: explains locke"s views on how knowledge is acquired, how we humans come to understand our world, 2. Some thoughts concerning education: based on a series of letters to a friend and shows how empiricist thinking could be applied to all aspects of a child"s education. Locke on human understanding: before describing how our ideas originate, locke considered and. Aristotelian metaphor of the mind as a blank slate), ready to be written upon by the experiences of one"s lifetime: he believed that every idea we have originated from the 2 processes, 1. Sensation: refers to all the info taken un by our senses from the environment, 2. One thinker who was especially concerned about the materialistic implications of 17th century science was george berkeley, a bishop of the.
