Concerning Human Understanding

by John Locke1689book

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Plasticity

The commodification of childhood—making it a product which can be sold—demands a psychological frame in which kids can be molded. A handful of philosophers dominates modern thinking because they argue this idea, and in arguing it they open up possibilities to guide history to a conclusion in some perfected society. Are children empty? John Locke said they were in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding:

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Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:—How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store...? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? [...] To this I answer, in one word, from experience. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. (p. 55)

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