say that we have an enduring self? Do we depend on others or are we independent? I believe that we do have an enduring self. We are not fully independent we depend on others to know who we really are. Philosophers like Plato‚ Rene Descartes‚ and John Locke believed that we all have an enduring self. A self that never changes‚ that keeps us the same person from the moment we are born till we die. According to philosopher Diotima‚ “we speak of an individual as being the same as long as he continues
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evolution" (Bailey & Gillespie‚ 2002‚ p.2).The Blank Slate theory derived from John Locke‚ a great philosopher who lived in the 16th century. In John Locke ’s philosophy‚ tabula rasa was the theory that the (human) mind is at birth a "blank slate" void of all characters‚ without any ideas or rules for processing data‚ and that data is added and rules for processing it formed solely by our sensory experiences. As understood by Locke‚ tabula rasa meant that the mind of the individual was born "blank"‚ and
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with those qualities. Like “Gold‚” its contents are yellow‚ solid‚ and pliable. But what it is‚ in itself‚ we have no idea. Thus these substances then are unknown in themselves‚ but they can be known to exist as the cause of the ideas they produce. Locke says that we have just as good an idea of the spiritual substance as of the material. In Locke’s Essay II‚ he states that “communication of motion by thought‚ which we attribute to spirit‚ is as evident as that by impulse‚ which we credit to the body
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Epistemology Study Guide 1. How can the senses deceive us? a. Our senses are how we perceive the world. Our eyes‚ nose‚ tongue‚ fingers‚ and ears feed raw information to our brain‚ which then turns it into information we can use. If we lose one of our senses‚ we lose that entire set of raw data. As such‚ we place incredible amounts of reliance on our senses. The only way our senses can deceive us is if they give us the wrong data‚ which then becomes wrong information. If life is an illusion
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Human nature‚ politics Paul Henry Schiepan and the meaning of the state Is Reason Universal? Are the passions? Which could be the starting point for understanding human nature? Reason and passions‚ which to understand the true basement of human nature? This question has been the subject of controversy since philosophy exists. For instance Greeks believed in the separation of human between his body‚ his spirit
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murder of millions of people‚ just like it was the thought of a college student to drive while intoxicated and hit another car ending a life. If it is our thoughts that initiate evil‚ are all humans evil? Philosopher John Locke theorized his “tabula rasa”‚ the blank slate. Locke said that people were neither born good or evil‚ they are instead born a blank slate. I use Locke’s philosophy to add to my point‚ people cannot be innately evil‚ or good for that matter‚ because at the very beginning of
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In contrast to nature‚ the nurture aspect was originated from John Locke‚ who believed we are born with a tabula rasa (blank slate)‚ and our experiences are written upon it. John Watson a behaviourist believed that we are shaped from our experiences‚ and from this he claimed that he could take a child from any background and shape them into whatever he wanted purely from social experience (Passer & Smith 2008. p 9.). These ideas appear to be too simplistic as there is more to humans than our environment
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different from Britians. So they used the ideas of the the Enlightment Thinkers to help write the Constitution. Next‚ I believe that our government would not be the same at all without the concept put forth by Enlightent Philosophers‚ because John Locke believed that all people have natural rights from birth such as life liberty and property. He says so in his article "Two Treaties of Government." These same ideas are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. In 1748‚ Montesquieu
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persons’."[7] For Berlin‚ negative liberty represents a different‚ and sometimes contradictory‚ understanding of the concept of liberty‚ which needs to be carefully examined. Its later proponents (such as Tocqueville‚ Constant‚ Montesquieu‚ John Locke‚ David Hume and John Stuart Mill‚[citation needed] who accepted Chrysippus’ understanding of self-determination)[8] insisted that constraint and discipline were the antithesis of liberty and so were (and are) less prone to confusing liberty and constraint
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about human nature and "the state of nature"‚ a condition in which the human race finds itself prior to uniting into civil society. Hobbes’ Leviathan goes on to propose a system of power that rests with an absolute or omnipotent sovereign‚ while Locke‚ in his Treatise‚ provides for a government responsible to its citizenry with limitations on the ruler’s powers. The understanding of the state of nature is essential to both theorists’ discussions. For Hobbes‚ the state of nature is equivalent
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