What is right? Madison Flowers

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I am not going to lie to you guys. Philosophy makes my head hurt. Reading things like Descartes and Locke makes my head spin. I have such a difficult time keeping up with their thoughts and reasoning, sometimes it feels like they pull stuff out of thin air. I never feel so small and insignificant than I do when I read the thoughts of the great minds that have come before me. How do they even begin to know half of the things they do? How did Locke just wake up one day and wonder where thoughts come from? He just decided that he is going to start with the mind to be a white piece of paper and then figure out how we come to learn and know things. I am not sure that I agree with Locke on the fact that we only learn from experience, sensation, or reflection. I think there are some things that are specific truths for everyone and it almost felt like he did not believe that because he believed in how things made us feel. Well what feels right to me might not feel right to you so what are we supposed to base our feelings on? Which one of us is actually right if both of our senses are telling us we are right?
Maybe I just did not understand any of this at all, which is very much possible. So what do you guys think?


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abbiehedden said…
I am the exact same with philosophy. To begin a conversation by questioning human existence is painful. I also wonder what Locke would have thought about the idea of multiple truths versus truth and opinion. He may have addressed this in the essay and I just couldn't understand it though. All in all, I'm completely with you on this post!
September 23, 2019 at 5:03 PM
Gabby Strahan said…
I am doing my best to attempt to understanding of philosophy and by doing that leads to my head hurting, along with a lot of questioning and disagreeing with their methods. I flat out don’t agree with Locke’s teaching that learning comes only through experience, sensation, and reflection because there are truths that lie beyond these. And yes Locke doesn’t seem to believe in any absolute truth, which isn’t right also. The absolute truth of a divine God that my small human mind has no room to question contradicts that along with all sources of learning coming from the magical experience, sensation, and reflection. You don’t think you’re making sense of philosophy but by your questions, I would say you certainly are!
September 23, 2019 at 6:39 PM
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