PHILOS 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Categorical Imperative, Innatism
21 Feb 2020
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Against innate ideas: locke (essay, book 1 chapter 2) He wants to inquire into the origin of ideas. The doctrine of innatism espouses the idea that primary notions" are intrinsic to the understanding: this means that it is the same as having a mind, we have universal principles, logical laws, mathematical relations, etc (ex: Whatever is, is ) are not arrived at through empirical discovery, but are natural properties of the mind: we are born with these: natural inborn access to these universal principles our rational nature understands these immediately. His main contention with the doctrine of innate ideas" is the idea enlisted in support of it. If the argument from universal consent is to hold that: there must not exist any other explanation for universal principles, if such things exist it must, in all cases, be evident that a mind has these universal principles.
