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This 5 page paper discusses the philosophy of Locke's assumption of certainty without innate ideas and Descartes' philosophy. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and his philosophy of Natural Law that gave rise to some of the basic ideas for the United States Constitution. Locke held that certainty may be realized without innate ideas,
and to this end, his philosophy inspired a nation. In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke demonstrates this basic idea of truth and how man arrives at a determination
of what the truth is. His argument is compelling. Libertarians, who would have agreed with Locke, believed that all knowledge comes to man by way of experience. In other words,
there is no such thing as a preconceived way of believing or being. Humans are born a blank slate. Empiricists believe that when a person is born, they are more
or less a clean slate. From what can be determined, though both Hume and Locke were empiricists, they differed in their interpretation of how experience shapes humankind. Descartes also believed
that mankind utilized the senses in determining reason. Therefore, he was fascinated with reality, what is and what is not. Sometimes considered the father of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes strove
to sort out what was real and what was unsubstantiated common thought. But he went beyond the proving of this with his quest to understand that mechanism by which reasoning
occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest of the philosophers in that he
suggests a world that exists solely through ideas (which come from experiences) and that this world is constructed of certain things that are just unknowable. Okay....how does one know that
something is unknowable? From what type of idea does this arise? This is the problem with Locke. The other problem with Locke is that if a world exists solely
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