John Locke
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Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of ''identity'' and the ''self'', figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant.
He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate, or ''tabula rasa''. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception, a concept now known as ''empiricism''.
Locke is often credited for describing private property as a Natural Law principle, arguing that when a person mixes their labour with nature, the labour enters the object conferring individual ownership. Provided by Wikipedia
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6by Christina Holmes, Benjamin D. Elder, Wataru Ishida, Alexander Perdomo-Pantoja, John Locke, Ethan Cottrill, Sheng-Fu L. Lo, Timothy F. WithamGet full text
Published 2020-09-01
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