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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Innate Ideas. ? The Idea Of God Ik The Mind Of Man. In considering the philosophy of Descartes, two important subjects came into view which deserve a more thorough examination than it was possible to give them in the last chapter; I mean the questions respecting innate knowledge, and the idea of God in the human soul. Under the authority of Locke, who, in his Essay on Human Understanding, argued stoutly against Cartesian ism, the theory of the empiricists in respect to both of these subjects has always been the predominant one on English ground, while the opposite doctrine has prevailed both in France and Germany, under the influence of Descartes and Leibnitz. The question respecting the origin of knowledge is one that has been discussed during every period in the history of abstract science. Even at the present day, in all countries where philosophy has any disciples, it is still debated with as fresh an interest, and as keen a use of all the weapons of dialectics, as when it was first mooted in the schools of Greece nearly three thousand years ago. The question is one of permanent and engrossing interest, because on the answer to it depend the opinions that we may entertain on subjects of the gravest moment, not only in psychology and metaphysics, but in theology and physical science. What are the natural and original characteristics of the human mind at the moment of its creation, before it began to be modified and informed by experience? Was it a mere tabula rasa ? a blank sheet of white paper ? a clean slate, on which any characters whatever might be impressed by future events, having no inborn aptitude or predisposition for any one impression rather than for any other ? Or had this blank been already touched by a Divine hand, ? written (ill over, in fac...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217024846 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021702484X |
| Weight | 1.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.87 In |
| List Price | $28.48 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 390 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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