John Locke Research Paper
Topic Area IX: Contemporary Metaphysics
Option i: Research any contemporary scientific view, such as String Theory or quantum Mechanics. Assess how a few philosophers we have studied in this course would react to the basic assumption and findings of the theory you have chosen.
I am going to research Neuroscience as my topic. I am going to explore how a few of the philosophers that we have studied maybe would have reacted to these current findings of modern man and his endeavors to study the mind. Human being are part of nature, the Stoics philosophers who gave us logic told us a detailed theory of knowledge , and put a lot of effort on the theories of the nature of the universe. The stoics believe what counts is the state of your …show more content…
Ideas come from two sources, sensation and reflection. He further states that all ideas can be traced back to simple ideas. The problem is, we put multiple simple ideas together and then name that group with those qualities. Like “Gold,” its contents are yellow, solid, and pliable. But what it is, in itself, we have no idea. Thus these substances then are unknown in themselves, but they can be known to exist as the cause of the ideas they produce. Locke says that we have just as good an idea of the spiritual substance as of the material. In Locke’s Essay II, he states that “communication of motion by thought, which we attribute to spirit, is as evident as that by impulse, which we credit to the body.” So if you ask who am I? And what makes me? I have no choice but to answer this; I am the consciousness of …show more content…
This would include the methods of will, moral choice, and the discernment of God. From this it does not follow that, free will is an illusion, God is an illusion. In this conclusion I read, “Accept the science, but not the nonscientific conclusions.” I find this to be a very interesting topic and open-mindedness is a pre-requisite.
On the other hand I read that neuroscience has found some evidence of, “microscopic groupings of a few differentiated cells (embryos), they say there is nothing human about them except potential, but if you choose to believe, a soul.” Maybe there is a link between our chronological and theological experiences that implies the existence of a soul. But just think, if the soul exists, then there might be a very good reason to think that, a higher-power, or God exists.
Again from documentation, many people have had out of body experiences, they have gone somewhere else but it was not this world, or maybe it was looking down on the world from above. Upon awaking, they find their selves back in their bodies, where once again they must use their brains and move their
Option i: Research any contemporary scientific view, such as String Theory or quantum Mechanics. Assess how a few philosophers we have studied in this course would react to the basic assumption and findings of the theory you have chosen.
I am going to research Neuroscience as my topic. I am going to explore how a few of the philosophers that we have studied maybe would have reacted to these current findings of modern man and his endeavors to study the mind. Human being are part of nature, the Stoics philosophers who gave us logic told us a detailed theory of knowledge , and put a lot of effort on the theories of the nature of the universe. The stoics believe what counts is the state of your …show more content…
Ideas come from two sources, sensation and reflection. He further states that all ideas can be traced back to simple ideas. The problem is, we put multiple simple ideas together and then name that group with those qualities. Like “Gold,” its contents are yellow, solid, and pliable. But what it is, in itself, we have no idea. Thus these substances then are unknown in themselves, but they can be known to exist as the cause of the ideas they produce. Locke says that we have just as good an idea of the spiritual substance as of the material. In Locke’s Essay II, he states that “communication of motion by thought, which we attribute to spirit, is as evident as that by impulse, which we credit to the body.” So if you ask who am I? And what makes me? I have no choice but to answer this; I am the consciousness of …show more content…
This would include the methods of will, moral choice, and the discernment of God. From this it does not follow that, free will is an illusion, God is an illusion. In this conclusion I read, “Accept the science, but not the nonscientific conclusions.” I find this to be a very interesting topic and open-mindedness is a pre-requisite.
On the other hand I read that neuroscience has found some evidence of, “microscopic groupings of a few differentiated cells (embryos), they say there is nothing human about them except potential, but if you choose to believe, a soul.” Maybe there is a link between our chronological and theological experiences that implies the existence of a soul. But just think, if the soul exists, then there might be a very good reason to think that, a higher-power, or God exists.
Again from documentation, many people have had out of body experiences, they have gone somewhere else but it was not this world, or maybe it was looking down on the world from above. Upon awaking, they find their selves back in their bodies, where once again they must use their brains and move their