Thursday, May 8, 2008

Hume: Comparing notes with Locke

In this blog, I want to compare the existance of God between Locke and Hume because they're both empiricists. Locke claimed that all of our thoughts, ideas, concepts and actions came from perception and gained experience. All of these perceptions would add up to the proofs of our knowledge, like how you know the taste of lemonade is sweet and sometimes sour, because you tasted it for yourself. So back to the existance of god, I feel Locke completely shoots down the theory of god, we have no percetption of god its just a made up concept for people to believe in something, Hume seems to do the same exact thing. He might not link perception and the disbelief in god, but his arguments are similar to Lockes. I feel Hume is less convincing with his support. Locke makes more contemporary sense.

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