"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas. All our knowledge and thoughts are founded in experience."
Today's Question
Is there a truth you feel you learned through your own experience alone, not from parents or society? If so, what is it?
The physician who traced the origin of human mind in exile
John Locke was a 17th-century English physician-philosopher who explored the nature of the mind during political exiles.
Discussing morals and religion with friends, he wondered why agreement was hard. He concluded that humans are not born with dogmas, but build ideas through simple experiences, forming a tabula rasa.