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

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.
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.22, pp.19-32, 1994-03-31

The purpose of this paper is to make clear several problems concerning "probability" in John Locke's <<An Essay concerning Human Understanding>>. In the descriptions of Book IV of this text, the problem of how to discriminate "probability" from "knowledge" is closely connected with the Problems on the validity of the knowledge in his "Natural Philosophy". Then I would like to examine Locke's descriptions in which both "probability" and "natural philosophy" are considered, and solve the following problems. 1. Relationship between Probability and Knowledge 2. The subject and the method of Natural Philosophy 3. The meaning of Speculetive truth
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.24, pp.1-15, 1995-03-31

As the result of the study of Book I of <<An Essay concerning Human Understanding>>, it was known that the foundation of knowledge was "the passive faculty receiving IDEAS from outside" in our minds. After all, in Locke's opinion, what existed in the mind was two elements of the IDEAS and the FACULTY (power, operation) exercised about these ideas. In this paper, I would like to examine Locke's theory concerning "the FACULTY exercised about ideas", namely,"the Power of Understanding". Then, I want to analyse the following problems : 1. Simple ideas of reflexion and the Modes of thinking. 2. the Perception and the Faculties of understanding. 3. the Faculty of reason.