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A 7 page overview of the manner in which John Locke incorporated skepticism into his quest for knowledge. This paper concentrates on illuminating the importance of Renee Descartes’ “Way of Ideas” in Locke’s philosophies as revealed in his “Essay Concerning Human Understanding”. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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John Locke lived between 1632 and 1704 and contributed his thought to a wide range of topics ranging from education to property ownership. His name is associated with being
the founder of British empiricism, Enlightenment and the belief that there is an inherent goodness in mankind. His philosophies are recognized as being influential in the construction of the
U.S. Constitution itself. The topic of this paper, however, is how Locke viewed the topic of knowledge and how skepticism was an important part of those views. This
component of Lockes philosophies, however, permeate practically every other aspect of those philosophies. Locke wrote extensively on the question of knowledge and skepticism.
In his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" he incorporated what was actually Renee Descartes "Way of Ideas". Locke writes:
"Thus Men, extending their Enquiries beyond their Capacities, and letting their Thoughts wander into those depths where they can find no sure Footing; tis no
Wonder, that they raise Questions and multiply Disputes, which never coming to any clear Resolution, are proper to only continue and increase their Doubts, and to confirm them at last
in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke would so transform the philosophies contained in Descartes
"Way of Ideas" that they would become uniquely his, an integral and most basic part of his overall philosophy. Despite his obvious respect for Descartes ideas on knowledge and
skepticism, however, Locke was critical of the rational elements in Descartes philosophy as a whole. This criticism was just one component of the great debate on the nature of
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