Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Locke: idea of God
Locke States that the idea of God varies from man to man. This seems to me to be very true since there are so many different ways to have views of what and who god is. Each person may have a slightly different way to worship or how they picture God but in general people have the same idea of what God is. "Our knowledge of material things is probabilistic and thus opinion rather than knowledge. Thus our “knowledge” of external objects is inferior to our knowledge of mathematics and morality, of ourselves, and of God." -http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/.
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I think in that quote Locke was expressing how knowledge we gain of the material world is opinion and are dependent ideas. However, knowledge we have of God is something we do not see in the external world. It is an idea that comes into the mind but it is not something we can see, taste, feel. The same goes for mathematics and morality. They do not exist in the material world.
OH so i see he is speaking of thoughts and ideas as the "non material" things.
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