John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Locke, who wrote The Second Treatise of Civil Government, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who wrote, The Social Contract, both have unique views of nature and "social contract." ... John Locke, who was born in 1632 and died in 1704, had a huge impact on Human Understanding. ... Locke believes that you create your own destiny. ... I thank Locke for that belief. ... The political ideas of the Whigs were also derived from Locke's views. ...

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In an apparent response to Descartes" work, John Locke wrote a series of considerations concerning how we perceive the nature of our world. ... Locke looks at this argument in the following way. ... This is known to Locke as Privation, or "the state of being deprived; especially: lack of what is needed for existence." ... In reference to qualities of the second degree, Locke makes a point to form a simple distinction in how qualities of the second order can be perceived. ...

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In the 17th century, philosophers René Descartes and John Locke challenged the idea of knowledge and its origin. Locke reasoned that knowledge cannot be absolute because it relies on the senses and observations. ... I believe Locke's "tabula rasa" picture of the mind illustrates this principle best. ... Locke has a very strong counter argument to this proposition. ... Our upbringing and even lack of remembrance may lead us to feel like certain ideas were integrated into our mind, but knowledge stems most accurately from our senses and investigation, as argued by John Lock...

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Representative Realism John Locke thought that the ideas or perceptions which we have of objects in the external world partially represent the objects as they are in themselves, and so whether they are being perceived or not. This view of Locke's is called representative realism. ... Locke lists size or extension, shape, motion or rest, solidity or impenetrability, and number as primary qualities of an object. ... But Locke maintains that perception gives us some knowledge of intrinsic properties of a physical object, namely, its primary qualities. ... Bishop Berkeley objected to Locke...

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Unlike Descartes, Locke claimed that innate ideas were practically non-existent. ... Locke also defined the two sources of knowledge as sensation and reflection. ... Locke's belief in the existence of God is argumentative. ... Locke takes God's existence to be "the most obvious truth reason discovers." John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. ...

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Modern ideas of realism however, came largely through the influence of Francis Bacon's (1561 - 1626) inductive methodology and John Locke's (1632 - 1704) proposal that the human mind is developed through environment and experiences. ...

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The leading empiricist is John Locke and he rejects the concept of innate ideas.There are also other empiricists that support Lockes concept such as George Berkeley and David Hume. Nevertheless, this criticism of Locke to Descartes, prove more than enough, that the empiricist account is more plausible. ... Furthermore, Locke denies the concept of the Cogito argument. ... Locke continues to talk about the experience we receive from the world and that they may differ. ... Rene Descartes was a rationalist whereas John Locke who was an empiricist. ...

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The "self" is an evolving part of each of us, responsible for thoughts and actions. Self is created by everything it is exposed to through feelings and thoughts. We are shaped by our surroundings: family, school, friends, music, and anything we experience in our day-to-day lives. I was born with ...

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Many people, one of which John Locke, believe that in every person there is a mind (not the brain). ... John Searles attempts to prove Strong A.I. correct with his "Chinese Room" theory. ... All in all A.I. attempts to support the beliefs of John Searles with his ideas of Strong A.I., which says that souls or minds are created by the brain itself and something given the right software has the ability to have a soul. ...

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Principle ideas like this were uniting the society, making a colonial consciousness aptly brought out by social activists like John Locke who explained that "men are by nature free, equal and independent of each other [and therefore] have every right to fashion their own government...

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As man progressed through the various stages of evolution, it is assumed that at a certain point he began to ponder the world around him. Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at best. As time passed on, though, these ideas...

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Berkeley's Theory of Immaterialism As man progressed through the various stages of evolution, it is assumed that at a certain point he began to ponder the world around him. Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at be...

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L.). (1963) Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. ... John Locke, a pre-eminent philosopher of the 17th century agrees in that he claims that the vehicle of the power to produce ideas in us is nothing but the primary qualities of the object which has the power. ...

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