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Ideas for 'works', 'Foundations without Foundationalism' and 'On Eternal and Immutable Morality'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

11239	The notion of a priori truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]
	Full Idea: The notion of a priori truth is conspicuously absent in Aristotle.
	From: report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 1.5
	A reaction: Cf. Idea 11240.

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa

6230	If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice [Cudworth]
	Full Idea: The soul is not a mere rasa tabula, a naked and passive thing, with no innate furniture of its own, nor any thing in it, but what was impressed upon it without; for then there could not possibly be any such thing as moral good and evil, just and unjust.
	From: Ralph Cudworth (On Eternal and Immutable Morality [1688], Bk IV Ch 6.4)
	A reaction: He goes on to quote Hobbes saying there is no good in objects themselves. I don't see why we must have an innate moral capacity, provided that we have a capacity to make judgements.