john locke philosophy of man

Philosophy of Man 313Group 2

Villareal, Carlyn

Agustin, Marinette

John LockeBorn August 29, 1632

Wrington, Somerset, Englan

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Died October 28, 1704 (aged

72)

High Laver, Essex, England

Era 17th-century philosophy

(Modern philosophy)

Region Western Philosophy

Main interests Metaphysics, epistemology,

political

philosophy, philosophy of

mind,

education, economics.

Notable ideas Tabula rasa, "government

with the consent of the

governed", state of

nature; rights of

life, liberty and property

Influences•Cicero, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Avicenna,

Grotius, Rutherford, Descartes, Hooker, Filmer,Pufendorf,

Hobbes, Polish Brethren (religious group whose ideas

were incorporated into Locke's theories)

Influenced•Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Berkeley, Burke,

Paine, Smith, Voltaire, Condillac, Rousseau, La

Mettrie, Toland, Carmichael, Hutcheson,Shaftesbury, Edw

JOHN LOCKELife and works

• A proponent of the school of Empiricism• Reject the philosophy that man has innate ideas

• The beginning of knowledge is through sense Experience

• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet or “Tabula rasa”

• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation and reflection

• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and The complex ideas.

• There are degrees of knowledge:

a) Intuitive knowledge

b) Demonstrative knowledge

c) Sensitive knowledge

Empiricism is

a theory that states

that knowledge comes only or

primarily from sensory

experience.

John Locke, is the leading

philosopher of British

empiricism


• A proponent of the school of Empiricism

• Reject the philosophy that man has innate

ideas• The beginning of knowledge is through sense Experience








Innate idea, in philosophy,

an idea allegedly inborn in the human mind, as contrasted with those received or compiled from experience.



• Reject the philosophy that man has innate ideas

• The beginning of knowledge is through sense

Experience• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet or “Tabula rasa”











• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet

or “Tabula rasa”• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation and reflection






Tabula Rasa or Blank Slate Tabula rasa is a

Latin word that

originates from

the

Roman tabula or

wax tablet used

for notes, which

was blanked by

heating the wax

and then

smoothing it.

The mind in it’s

hypothetical

primary empty

state before

receiving outside

impressions .

“There is nothing in

mind except was first in

the senses.”

JOHN LOCKE






• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation

and reflection• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and The complex ideas.





The senses convey to the

mind whatever it requires

to produce perceptions of

sensible qualities.

Understanding conveys

the sense perception to

our sensation. Sensation

is great part source of our

ideas.

The sensation is

dependent on what the

senses perceive and as

derived from

understanding.

Perception, thinking,

doubting, believing,

reasoning, knowing and

willing follow upon

sensation. When the

ideas perceived by the

senses bounce back to

the mind that perceives

this is the activity of

reflection.







• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and

The complex ideas.• There are degrees of knowledge:




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