"Rationalists" are far from rational: ridiculous claims founded on innate ideas. Baseless speculation about reality usually with some quasi-religious undertones (Decartes, Leibniz).
So, why were they so prominent in philosophy and why do their ideas still have any merit? By the time Locke started publishing his work, that should've been the end of rationalism as a whole.
Even something seemingly independent of experience that could resemble a synthetic judgement (mathematics) is stupid because closed systems such as those do not tell us anything about reality.
Ethan Edwards
Stupid fuck, you do realize when we teach philosophers it's not meant to be a suggestion to pick up their system and run with it uncritically. They were historically important figures who had important elucidations even if ultimately based on a shoddy foundation.
Jace Cooper
Stupid fuck
Angel Reyes
good responses
Dylan Ortiz
Stupid fuck
Jeremiah Moore
>rationalism
Anthony Sanders
Lockean empiricism was a gigantic discourse spanning centuries and had a lot of weird pathological forms, usually intimately intertwined with bizarre and over-enthusiastic Enlightenment political programs. You should research the history of Locke's concepts and their use by various different discourses if that's what you mean. Similar for rationalism though that's even more diffuse, bordering on meaningless without more precise definition.
If by Locke's empiricism you mean some kind of idealized inductive method of natural philosophy, then you also have to define what you mean by that, because it's not even as simple as "that has been tried already," it's more like "about twenty different discourses with mutually exclusive and contradictory metaphysical programs (in the Popperian sense) considered themselves Lockean empiricists in that fashion."
The most that can be safely inferred from your post is that you probably don't enjoy ultra-radical subjective idealisms, like Fichte. But that's pretty meaningless since everyone agrees with you there.
Chase Cox
wow you solved philosophy congrats Leibniz BTFO I mean what did he know anyway amirite? XD
