"When a man speaks to another, it is that he may be understood; and the end of speech is, that those sounds, as marks, may make known his ideas to the hearer. That, then, which words are the marks of are the ideas of the speaker: nor can any one apply them, as marks, immediately to any thing else but the ideas that he himself hath. For, this would be to make them signs of his own conceptions, and yet apply them to other ideas; which would be to make them signs and not signs of his ideas at the same time; and so, in effect to have no signification at all. Words being voluntary signs, they cannot be voluntary signs imposed by him on things he know not." John Locke p. 323
This passage seems to be saying that you cannot just go by what another person thinks. Locke seems to be saying that you have to experience things are your own instead of taking another person's word as truth. I think this can be applied to things like religion and individualism.
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"This passage seems to be saying that you cannot just go by what another person thinks. Locke seems to be saying that you have to experience things are your own instead of taking another person's word as truth. I think this can be applied to things like religion and individualism."
Agree with locke 100% and do see the connection with religion. In the long run you would like to beleave what others have to say 100% but you cannot. The only person that you can count on for knowledge is yourself.
I definitely think that people just play follow the leader when it comes to religion. A lot times they accept what their parents, family or religious figure has to say without even thinking to question it. I guess that is because a lot of people do not like it when people change their religion or question it. I definitely think that this is silly because if you pretend to have faith is something that deep down you may not truly believe in that particular religion. So in a sense your faith is fake or pretend.
I kind of agree and disagree with locke on that sometimes other people are right, sometimes their thinking makes more sense than ours. We as humans sometimes we dont think and do mistakes that could have been prevented if you were to listen to others!1
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