Ep. 258: Locke on Acquiring Simple Ideas (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On the first half of Book II of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).
How do we get our ideas? Simple ideas must come in through perception, but this doesn't just mean the senses; also reflection on our own minds, and this added layer of complexity allows us to bring in memory, concepts, time, and more.
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| 0:38.0 | You're listening to the Partsley Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:41.1 | set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better at it. |
| 0:43.7 | Our question for episode 258 is something like, how do we come to have the ideas we have? |
| 0:47.8 | And we read the first part of Book Two of John Locke's and essay concerning human understanding |
| 0:52.2 | from 1689. |
| 0:54.2 | For more information, please visit PartsleyExaminedLife.com. |
| 0:57.2 | This is Mark Linson Meyer. |
| 0:58.2 | And I get the idea of power from self-observation. |
| 1:00.8 | In Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:01.9 | This is Seth Paskin in a very simple mode in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:06.4 | This is Wes Aulone, willing myself to will in New York, New York. |
| 1:11.0 | This is Dylan Casey having a clear and distinct idea of a philosophy podcast in my understanding. |
| 1:16.2 | However, the cause of that podcast came to my senses in Madison, Wisconsin. |
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