What were Locke's criticisms of the rationalists?
What was his theory about human knowledge?
- For Locke and other empiricists, all human knowledge can ultimately be traced back to experiences we have had, transmitted through our five senses. The mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) on which experience writes.
- Locke objected to the rationalist ideas that knowledge is innate and that true knowledge can be achieved through "rational intuition" without recourse to sense experience.
- Knowledge cannot be innate if not all humans share the same knowledge, which they clearly do not.
- Locke's four independent elements in the knowing process were related to Newton's mechanistic view of the universe; these are (a) the entity or object in the world, (b) sensations emitted by the object to our senses, (c) ideasâ€"images produced in our minds by the sensations, and (d) the person or conscious mind who perceives and reflects on the ideas.
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a. may also be known through the light of nature. b. cannot be known through the light of nature. c. are necessarily inconsistent with natural morality. d. are nonexistent.
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a. Passive acceptance of evil b. Meek submission to the will of the evil-doer c. Turn the other cheek d. Conscious suffering
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a. accept one's caste distinctions without complaint. b. work hard in society to earn one's own honest living. c. share from one's earnings with those who are needy. d. remember God at all times as the only Doer.