While reading John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, I noticed that Locke talked a lot about children. He talked in great detail about a newborn’s behavior and the behavior of the child as it matured. For example, “Follow a child from its birth, and observe the alterations that time makes, and you find, as the mind by the senses comes more and more to be furnished with ideas, it comes to be more and more awake; thinks more, the more it has matter to think on. After some time it begins to know the objects which, being most familiar with it, have made lasting impressions.” (Locke Book II )
He mentioned a child so much and in so much detail that it made me wonder if he had a child. Or if he had a niece or nephew who grew up around him. Maybe Locke had a younger sibling who he watched grow up as an adult. Whatever the case, even if he did not watch a child grow up, we can say that Locke definitely did his research. So he could prove his point.
Ps. I commented on Addison’s and Luke’s posts.
He mentioned a child so much and in so much detail that it made me wonder if he had a child. Or if he had a niece or nephew who grew up around him. Maybe Locke had a younger sibling who he watched grow up as an adult. Whatever the case, even if he did not watch a child grow up, we can say that Locke definitely did his research. So he could prove his point.
Ps. I commented on Addison’s and Luke’s posts.
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