Rene Descartes asserts the principle of innate idea in the one of his philosophical treatise named “Meditations on First …show more content…
In the wax example, Descartes not only shows that perceiving object is considered a node of thinking, but also represent that we can understand an idea through a pure understanding, which is mind rather than sensory experience. The wax significantly suggests that pure understanding is clearer than sensory experience (Descartes, 1996, p20-p21). In the other hand. Locke emphasizes that we understand ideas through primarily using reason which comes from our sensory experience (Locke, 2008, p19). The difference between the two explanations about obtaining true knowledge leads me to think that sensory experiences can be mistaken and as the result, they may cause different people to develop different interpretation on the same idea. This cause may point out that it is possible for people to generate different moral rules and different image of God based on experience, even though they hold the same principles or ideas. Thus, in Locke’s argument, the objection about that universal assertion of moral principle and the idea of God is