著者

後藤 愛司

出版者

岐阜聖徳学園大学

雑誌

聖徳学園女子短期大学紀要 (ISSN:03875067)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, pp.1-12, 1990-03-31

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Book I of "An Essay concerning Human Understanding", the main problem of which is whether the innate ideas exist or not. I think that Locke's considerations on this problem are in fact "a method" of establishing the foundation of the knowledge, that is to say, his various arguments on the innate principles and ideas aim at finding the foundation on which our knowledge is depending. Therefore, in my point of view, Locke seems to have intended to getting over the philosophy of substance such as Descartes'. At the result of my analysis, it becomes clear that the foundation of our klowledge is not res cogitans as "active substance" or ESPRIT, but the force of perception as "passive faculty" of the mind.