Author Bio: Lived from 1632 to 1704, John Locke was one of the most important individuals during the Scientific Revolution. He attended University at Oxford and became a doctor. He was very intrigued with how the human mind worked and made extremely significant contributions to the fields of psychology, philosophy, and more.
Speaker: John Locke
Date/Context: This document was written in 1690 during the Scientific Revolution and years of Enlightenment. At this time, psychologists and philosophers were still arguing about how the mind worked, if we were born with all of our beliefs and opinions, or if we started as a blank slate.
Summary: The document focuses on how the mind works. The question is: are people born with a set of beliefs and opinions, or is the mind a blank slate and experiences in the world shape us as people. Many people believe that when we are born, our minds already have set beliefs for the rest of our lives. But for others, our minds are tabula rasa (blank slate). Locke believes that people are born with no prior beliefs or knowledge, and that is acquired through the many experiences that we have in the world. Experiences throughout our lives shape us into the people that we are, and it is forever changing as we have different experiences.
Key Quotation
- "...if a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green that he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster or a pineapple has of those particular relishes..."
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