Contemporary Ethical Theory

Two central planks (apparently) of Locke’s philosophy are the role of ideas – for Locke an idea is ‘whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks’ (Essay BkI, ch I) – and a representational theory of perception according to which we the immediate objects of perception are not external material bodies but ideas. ................
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