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This 5 page report discusses the fact that in his “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (1690), Locke asserted that the human mind could be compared to a “white paper, void of all characters” and that same mind relied on “all the materials of reason and knowledge.” He did not believe that human beings were somehow imprinted with certain “innate” ideas or principles. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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ideas relating to humanity can be explained and elaborated upon in and through that relationship. Locke also establishes the issues and viability of the issues that relate to virtue. It
is important to understand that almost the entire core of the intellectual activity of the eighteenth century in England leads back to Locke. He demonstrated the unique ability to succinctly
describe and honor the different aspects of the Enlightenment through his belief in the middle class and its right to freedom of conscience and right to property, through his faith
in science, and in his confidence in the fundamental goodness of humanity. The inevitable pursuit of happiness and pleasure, according to Locke, when conducted rationally, leads to cooperation. Such cooperation
results in an outcome in which individual happiness and the general welfare of society come together. Locke also believed that every person must carefully examine the aspects of his or
her life that lead to the pursuit of happiness and pleasure while being of the greatest possible service and support to others. Furthermore, Locke was convinced that in order for
a liberal, tolerant, regime to survive, it had to be intolerant of those who were neither liberal nor tolerant. His influence upon philosophy and political theory for the past 400
years has been incalculable. Locke and Innate Principles In the "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," Locke carefully reviews the characteristics of the human mind and the course by which it
is aware of the world outside and around it. Arguing against the long-established proposition of innate ideas or principles, Locke believed that the mind is born blank, a tabula rasa
upon which the world presents itself via the experience of the five senses. Locke simply did not believe that there were certain "innate" ideas or principles pre-programmed into the human
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