John Locke was a 17th century English philosopher who was a major proponent of empiricism. He rejected the idea of innate ideas and believed that all knowledge comes from experience received through the senses. Locke likened the mind to a blank tablet or "tabula rasa" at birth, emphasizing that knowledge is built from sensory experience and reflection, not innate ideas. He viewed sensation and reflection as the two sources of all knowledge.

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2. John LockeBorn August 29, 1632
Wrington, Somerset, Englan
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Died October 28, 1704 (aged
72)
High Laver, Essex, England
Era 17th-century philosophy
(Modern philosophy)
Region Western Philosophy
Main interests Metaphysics, epistemology,
political
philosophy, philosophy of
mind,
education, economics.
Notable ideas Tabula rasa, "government
with the consent of the
governed", state of
nature; rights of
life, liberty and property
Influences
•Cicero, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Avicenna,
Grotius, Rutherford, Descartes, Hooker, Filmer,Pufendorf,
Hobbes, Polish Brethren (religious group whose ideas
were incorporated into Locke's theories)
Influenced
•Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Berkeley, Burke,
Paine, Smith, Voltaire, Condillac, Rousseau, La

3. JOHN LOCKE
Life and works
• A proponent of the school of Empiricism
• Reject the philosophy that man has innate ideas
• The beginning of knowledge is through sense Experience
• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet or “Tabula rasa”
• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation and reflection
• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and The complex ideas.
• There are degrees of knowledge:
a) Intuitive knowledge
b) Demonstrative knowledge
c) Sensitive knowledge

4. Empiricismis
a theory that states
that knowledge comes only or
primarily from sensory
experience.
John Locke, is the leading
philosopher of British
empiricism

5. JOHN LOCKE
Life and works
• A proponent of the school of Empiricism
• Reject the philosophy that man has innate
ideas
• The beginning of knowledge is through sense Experience
• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet or “Tabula rasa”
• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation and reflection
• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and The complex ideas.
• There are degrees of knowledge:
a) Intuitive knowledge
b) Demonstrative knowledge
c) Sensitive knowledge

6. Innate idea, in philosophy,
an idea allegedly inborn in the human
mind, as contrasted with those received
or compiled from experience.

7. JOHN LOCKE
Life and works
• A proponent of the school of Empiricism
• Reject the philosophy that man has innate ideas
• The beginning of knowledge is through sense
Experience
• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet or “Tabula rasa”
• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation and reflection
• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and The complex ideas.
• There are degrees of knowledge:
a) Intuitive knowledge
b) Demonstrative knowledge
c) Sensitive knowledge

9. JOHN LOCKE
Life and works
• A proponent of the school of Empiricism
• Reject the philosophy that man has innate ideas
• The beginning of knowledge is through sense Experience
• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet
or “Tabula rasa”
• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation and reflection
• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and The complex ideas.
• There are degrees of knowledge:
a) Intuitive knowledge
b) Demonstrative knowledge
c) Sensitive knowledge

10. Tabula Rasa or Blank Slate
 Tabula rasa is a
Latin word that
originates from
the
Roman tabula or
wax tablet used
for notes, which
was blanked by
heating the wax
and then
smoothing it.
 The mind in it’s
hypothetical
primary empty
state before
receiving outside

11. “There is
nothing in
mind except
was first in
the senses.”
JOHN LOCKE

12. JOHN LOCKE
Life and works
• A proponent of the school of Empiricism
• Reject the philosophy that man has innate ideas
• The beginning of knowledge is through sense Experience
• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet or “Tabula rasa”
• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation
and reflection
• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and The complex ideas.
• There are degrees of knowledge:
a) Intuitive knowledge
b) Demonstrative knowledge
c) Sensitive knowledge

13. The senses convey to the
mind whatever it requires
to produce perceptions of
sensible qualities.
Understanding conveys
the sense perception to
our sensation. Sensation
is great part source of our
ideas.
The sensation is
dependent on what the
senses perceive and as
derived from
understanding.
Perception, thinking,
doubting, believing,
reasoning, knowing and
willing follow upon
sensation. When the
ideas perceived by the
senses bounce back to
the mind that perceives
this is the activity of
reflection.

14. JOHN LOCKE
Life and works
• A proponent of the school of Empiricism
• Reject the philosophy that man has innate ideas
• The beginning of knowledge is through sense Experience
• Gives the analogy of the man to a blank tablet or “Tabula rasa”
• The two fountains of knowledge are sensation and reflection
• There are two kinds of ideas: The simple and
The complex ideas.
• There are degrees of knowledge:
a) Intuitive knowledge
b) Demonstrative knowledge
c) Sensitive knowledge