The text also explores the distinction between the “primary” and “secondary” qualities of physical objects, with primary qualities including permanent characteristics such as size and shape and secondary qualities, including how humans experience the objects with their senses. Locke believed that all knowledge, including moral knowledge, is derived from experience. Since human infants have no conception of God, morals, logic, or mathematical truths, they do not have those thoughts imprinted in their minds. Locke argues that an idea cannot be “in the mind” until one is conscious of it. The work explores the theory of ideas and contains Locke’s argument that certain kinds of knowledge-knowledge of the existence of God, certain moral truths, and the laws of logic and mathematics-are not innate, or automatically imprinted on the human mind. Locke pointed out that before they could make progress they would need to consider the question “What is the capacity of the human mind for understanding and knowledge?” It was agreed that Locke should prepare a paper on the topic, and it was this paper that became the first draft of his work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which he completed while living in Holland in 1689. Probably in February 1671 Locke and a group of friends had gathered to consider questions of morality and religion.
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