Compare John Locke and Descartes?

"Ideas" is one key focus.

Briefly, Descartes is similar to Plato: Ideas <--- Forms <---- Good <--- God; Descartes classifies ideas into three sets: Ideas that are "innate" to Rene as a Child of God, who sees himself made in God's Image, and which Ideas of God he may access by resonating with Mind--"Thinking God's thoughts after Him," as Einstein puts it; the Cartesian middle group = ideas that are formed by Kantian 5-sense data, so-called "adventitious" (= adventures in 5-senses); innate Ideas are similar to Kant's Noumenon, which for Kant is not very accessible. (Schopenhauer said that Noumenal Ideas of Self are knowable; albeit, Schopenhauer did not much believe in God thinking them, as he did not much believe in God.) Descartes thus has Innate ideas, which "the mind perceives in itself" as reflections of God's Ideas; this is how Descartes knows "absolutely;" Locke's soul is more like a "clean white page" with no Sacred Scripture Ideation inscribed upon it; Locke's awareness is thus not directly linked to Deific Mind--he skips "God's innate" and goes directly to Descartes' "adventitious" ideas (using a different descriptive word), which "the mind perceives in itself." Descartes' third basket of ideas is "factitious," or ideas built upon innate/adventitious ideas.

Locke's proof of God is similar to Descartes', with the same consistent difference: Locke finds being and thinking as equally self-evident, i.e., not deriving being from thinking in God's thought, as Descartes does. Locke notes that one may be sure one is; we know by physics that something never comes from nothing; hence, something has always been. Locke denotes this something (call it Energy, Creative Mind) "God."

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The Sane and Insane

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