Friday, April 4, 2008
innate ideas
Locke is very adament about the fact that no one is born with innate ideas. unlike descartes who belived that there are many simple ideas you are born with. Lock however feels that there are no ideas imprinted on you mine before you are born. He is convinced that evertything you know no matter how simple was learned. he makes the point that some ideas that could be percieved as being innate were really just so simple that you learn them very easily. he uses the example of color recognition. it isn't hard to learn but it is learned.
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Yeah we have also talked about this extensively in class, this is where Descartes and Locke differ in their arguments which i find interesting, but at the same time they are both entitled to their own opinions and ideas.
Innate ideas for Locke did not exist. Locke believed in the tabula rasa and with our experiences we begin to formulate our own ideas in our minds. However, in my opinion, I do not feel that we are completely born with this blank slate since even in the womb we are experiencing things even though we have not come into the external world quite yet.
- chris rehonic
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