Do we have innate ideas? Offer your perspective with reference to the works of Descartes and Locke. I understand that the concept of innate ideas alone means the ideas that present our minds at birth. Both Descartes and Locke have their own views on innate ideas and their arguments are completely different from each other and the issue remains within the realm of human knowledge. Do innate ideas really exist? Descartes does not integrate experiences into his philosophy like other philosophers, Bacon and Hobbes. He believes that we have innate ideas that self, identity, substance, and God are within us since we are born "largely on the truths contained in the mind." He offered observations from the wax. No matter how much you heat or cool the wax, it will always remain the same substance. He concludes that the mind is capable of performing “acts of intellection” in order to know what type of substance. Therefore, "acts of intellection" here represent these innate ideas and Descartes describes them as the existence of God has given us the ability to intellect Locke's theory of knowledge against Descartes that he believes that he There are no innate ideas of this type. He explains that if the idea is truly in a person's mind, then it must be understood and some humans do not understand these ideas. According to his self-evident law of non-contradiction, “it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be.” For example, I'm working or not working on the philosophy exam but I just can't do both at the same time. He believes that innate ideas are too extreme for humans to understand and therefore we should reject them. Another argument of Locke is that if the innate idea exists, then it must appear to our minds before instruction. When he talks about the minds of young children who...... middle of paper ...... exert influence in our minds if we don't have good experiences. Kant has the same concern with the cosmological proof. He states "if we can succeed in bridging the gap between our idea of ​​a perfect being and the demonstrative proof of its existence." The teleological proof proves that God is the existence of the creator. However, he questions the fact that the idea of ​​the first creator would lead to the defects of the ontological proof. He uses his concept of “moral postulates” to demonstrate God. First, moral behavior is rational, we have reasons to be moral because we know our duty in matters of schoolwork, work, and family. Second, Kant argues that we need immortality to achieve the perfect good. The latter postulates said that it was morally necessary to postulate the existence of God. The "moral postulates" represent an attempt by Kant to limit the theoretical view of God instead of expanding practical philosophy..