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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 257: Locke Against Innate Ideas (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Continuing on Book I of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).

We consider Locke's arguments that since there are no universally agreed upon principles, therefore there are no beliefs that we're all born with, or that we all (without the need for experience) immediately recognize as true as soon as we gain the use of reason or are otherwise equipped to understand them.

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You're listening to the partially examined life episode 257 part two. We've been talking

1:10.5

about book one of locks and essay concerning human understanding.

1:14.7

So we've given a lot of high level information about his project, gotten a little into the

1:19.4

beginning of the text, talked a lot about what ideas are and why that's a weird concept

1:23.8

to us. Let's actually get into his arguments against innate ideas, starting with this argument

1:29.6

against universal ascent.

1:31.6

This begins in chapter two, which is definitely the meat.

1:34.6

No innate principles in the mind. Yeah. You know, his idea is that the advocates of innate

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