His father was a lawyer,and could afford to have Locke educated at Westminster and then Oxford.He then had a rich, powerful patron and employer in Lord Shaftesbury.
Experience from sensation and reflection:
From reading the works of the 12th century Arab philosopher Ibn Tufail.Having been convinced by this,he found the ideas of Ibn Tufail to be incompatible with thsoe of Descartes and Augustine,so based his tabula rasa theory on Ibn Tufail's ideas.
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His father was a lawyer,and could afford to have Locke educated at Westminster and then Oxford.He then had a rich, powerful patron and employer in Lord Shaftesbury.
Experience from sensation and reflection:
From reading the works of the 12th century Arab philosopher Ibn Tufail.Having been convinced by this,he found the ideas of Ibn Tufail to be incompatible with thsoe of Descartes and Augustine,so based his tabula rasa theory on Ibn Tufail's ideas.