Moral relativism is the concept that people’s moral judgements only go as far a ones persons standpoint in a matter. Also‚ one person’s view on a particular subject carries no extra weight than another person. My thesis statement is inner judgements‚ moral disagreements‚ and science are what defend and define moral relativism. Inner judgements are critiques about a persons particular behaviour and what they should or should not have done. Judgements include labels to outline a persons behaviour
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CHAPTER 6 continued… Kant’s Dualism * Noumenal World * Things as they are * We cannot experience this directly * Phenomenal World * Things as they are experience/perceived. * Mental representations of the noumenal world Perceptual Theory 1. Objects in the world 2. Sensations (secondary qualities‚ simple ideas) 3. Structuring by the mind 4. Perception‚ and Knowledge of universals/abstracts Space Perception * Kantian problem of Space
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information which the child needs. To sum up‚ the greatest difference between behaviourism and innatism is the opinion about child’s mind. Behaviourists claim that child should be‚ in some way‚ programmed by the environment‚ meaning child’s mind is a blank slate that has to be filled. However‚ Chomsky is of the
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role on human development. As a result‚ each person develops different types of personalities. Besides‚ scientists‚ still have many types of challenges ahead behind human nature. “Human nature is a vexing issue: some argue that we are born as blank slates and our natures are defined by upbringing‚ experience‚ culture and the ideas of our time. Others believe that human nature is innate and pre-destined‚ regardless of time and
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not set in stone but we are born with it. It is an inherent part of our well-being. In the time of Descartes‚ philosophers were split into two traditions: the rationalists and the empiricists. The empiricists held that humans are born with a clean slate and all our knowledge is gained from experience. Descartes was a rationalist who believed that God placed knowledge in us as rational beings for nature has no intelligence in it and something cannot give what it doesn’t have. Therefore he believed
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because it is of such an abstract nature. According to Empiricists‚ such as John Locke‚ all knowledge comes from direct sense experience. Locke’s concept of knowledge comes from his belief that the mind is a "blank slate or tabula rosa" at birth‚ and our experiences are written upon the slate. Therefore‚ there are no innate experiences. The strength of the empiricist position is that it is best at explaining particulars‚ which we encounter on a daily basis. The weakness of this position is that one
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Skinner Article By Shelley McCann B. F. Skinner emphasized the importance of making psychology a science‚ using controlled experiments to objectively measure behavior influencing cognitive psychology. Skinner believed that each person is born a blank slate. He contributed the theory of operant conditioning. For example reinforcement strengthens behavior and punishment weakens behavior. Skinner developed this theory by conducting experiments on rats and pigeons in a “Skinner Box”. The theory of operant
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stuck in its windpipe will automatically cough in order to dislodge the food to prevent choking‚ thus saving life. Learned behaviour is not inherited but is flexible and can be changed – empiricists like John Locke‚ believe that we are born blank slates and that we learn behaviour through our environmental experience and watching others. Humans learn through watching and practising how to tie shoe laces and how to ride a bike. There are certain problems with viewing behaviour as either ’innate’
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modern conceptions of identity and the self‚ figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume‚ Rousseau and Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to pre-existing Cartesian philosophy‚ he maintained that we are born without innate ideas‚ and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception. THOMAS HOBBES Hobbes was a champion
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uncover the rules that unerlay the chaos of the human and material world * Natural Religion: a movement that wanted to prove the existence of God Philosophy * John Locke: * How do we know what we know? * Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate): * Knowledge is based on experience * Seperation of state and religion * Father of Liberalism: * liberty of the individual and equal rights * David
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