g Explain Locke's view that we can have knowledge of an external world despite our being directly aware only of sense data. Do you agree with him, or do you side with his critics who say that we can know only the contents of our minds?

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18 June, 22:27

g Explain Locke's view that we can have knowledge of an external world despite our being directly aware only of sense data. Do you agree with him, or do you side with his critics who say that we can know only the contents of our minds?

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Cynthia Chung · Answer 1

Locke understood the world as an extension of our consciousness.

Explanation:

John Locke's beliefs about human consciousness and our understanding of the world that surrounds us is very influential in the development of western thought. He was a prime liberal thinker.

He is seen as the father of liberalism because he believed that humans have the innate ability to make sense of the world around them and to live in harmony in an egalitarian society by questioning their own knowledge that they have.