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John Locke "Of Our Complex Ideas of Substances

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Nate Wiles

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Spirit and Body

Spirit and Body (cont.)

  • the combination of spirit and body makes us have active and passive powers
  • God- fully active
  • Matter- fully passive

Our idea of body is equally as obscure as spirit.

Body:

Primary ideas: cohesion of solid parts, communication through impulse.

Spirit:

Primary ideas: thinking, motivity (its ability to move the body), Mobility (souls can move from place to place, using the body)

Ideas of Substance

Notable terms

How well do we know substance?

  • collection of simple ideas (ex.) horse
  • grouping of substance based on similar ideas (ex.) metals
  • Idea of powers (ex.) a power of gold is it's malleability
  • we give names to substances (ex.) we all call the warm, bright, sphere in the sky the sun

God

Our complex ideas of God and other spirits are made up of simple ideas gathered by reflection (e.g. what we experience in ourselves)

  • substances are more than our simple ideas of them.
  • ex.)blood under microscope
  • our senses are apt to are needs
  • we practically know nothing about substances (what is matter?)
  • simple & complex ideas
  • primary & secondary qualities
  • active & passive powers

Idea of Spirit (soul)

John Locke "Of Our Complex Ideas of Substances

  • based on simple ideas (reasoning, willing, impulse, motion)
  • immaterial substance
  • cannot deny its existence.

Nate, Alex, Marie

Complex Ideas of Substances (cont.)

Three sorts of ideas that make up our complex ideas:

  • Sensory observations of the substance (bulk, figure, motion)
  • Sensible secondary qualities -the powers substances have to produce several ideas in us by our senses. these ideas are not in the things themselves (ex. color, smell)
  • The active and passive powers that can alter our ideas of substances
  • ex.) the power of fire to burn wood changes wood into charcoal. altering its secondary and primary qualities and making it a new substance

John Locke, "Of Our Complex Ideas of Substances"

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