How Did Locke Mill Contribute To Kant

Locke, Hume, Mill, and the Mysterious Disappearance of Descartes René Descartes, born in France in the 17th century, laid the foundation of modern philosophy. In fact, due to his numerous contributions to the field, he is still considered to be the “father of philosophy.” Though a renowned philosopher, he also made considerable contributions to the fields of science and math, including the Cartesian coordinates, reflection and refraction of light, and analytical geometry (Infoplease, n.d). Though his influence can be found in almost every aspect of the sciences, his major philosophical offerings were found in the foundational development of skepticism.
Based on his foundation of skepticism, Descartes questioned whether a person is able to truly know anything whatsoever, with the “basic strategy…to consider false any belief that falls prey to …show more content…
He believed that our perceptive senses (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting) deceive us, and therefore cannot be fully trusted; since, of course, we experience everything through our perceived senses, he deduced that we cannot know anything – anything, with the exception of ourselves. Descartes developed the idea that, because we are able to think and have consciousness, we prove our own existence – “I think, therefore I am.” Additionally, he proves the existence of God via the argument that our minds cannot conceive that which has not either been experienced via the senses or placed within our minds. Therefore, we must have either experienced God via our senses, or God placed the idea of himself in our minds upon creation. Descartes argued that this Creator must be perfect, as we also are able to imagine the concept of perfection. Again, we could not have had the idea of perfection (since we are not perfect ourselves) without either experiencing or innately having knowledge of perfection. If God were perfect, as Descartes believed He was, then He would not be a