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Ep. 258: Locke on Acquiring Simple Ideas (Part Two)

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 01:00:57
Publish Date: 2020-12-15 19:53:58
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Continuing on Book II (through ch. 20) of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).

How do we acquire our ideas of pain and pleasure, duration and motion? We talk primary (shape, size) and secondary (color, sound) qualities, the former of which are supposed to be actually in objects, and the latter just in our mind. Plus, is Locke really an atomist about experience?

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