The idea of John Locke

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Novel takes as its subject human psychology and cognition; it is undoubtedly the first European work on human cognition. John Locke was a philosopher of human science in 17th century. Locke appied the new science to explaining the human mind itsel and all its operation; he started with a radical deinition o human mind. He wrote two far-reaching and massively inluential works on human sciences, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding(1690) and Two Treatises on Govement (1690). He thought the human mind enters the world with no pre-fromed ideas whatsoever. the human mind at the birth is a blank, a erased board. Human sensation: taste, touch, smell, hearing, and especially vision filled the empty mind with object of sensation. From these sensation, human eventually derive a sense of order and rationality. i argree with this idea because Dr. Frankenstein create a monster who is more human and kind just like what Locke is talking about. The creature has no family after he born because Dr. Frankenstein abandon him. No one is going to teach him what sensation are. He needs to learn by himself and experiences these things that he never has.

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