Continuing from part one on Book I of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). We go through the arguments against innate ideas: There's no universal assent to foundational principles, either practical or theoretical. Plenty of people around the world deny in good conscience what we might consider foundational ethical principles, and they certainly don't all Continue Reading …
Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part One)
On Book I of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), discussed by Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. How do we know things? Locke is well known as a British empiricist: All knowledge must ultimately come from our experience. Contra Plato, who thought that knowledge of the important things is "recollected," perhaps from the time before we were born as individual Continue Reading …
Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Citizen Edition)
On Book I of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), discussed by Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth. How do we know things? Locke is well known as a British empiricist: All knowledge must ultimately come from our experience. Contra Plato, who thought that knowledge of the important things is "recollected," perhaps from the time before we were born as individual Continue Reading …
The Subject: A Brief History
[A post from Michael Burgess. This reiterates some of the first half of our Popper episode.] The Cartesian subject, the "I" of the "I think", sits apart from the world, receiving it. Descartes' 17th Century inheritors, the British Empiricists took “the world” to be little more than a series of sense perceptions, perhaps perceptions of something – but we would never know. Continue Reading …