Tabula rasa

The target of Berkeley's arguments in the sections of The Principles that we read is a description of how we come to know mind-independent matter via primary and secondary qualities as John Locke described it. What is Locke's position and what are Berkeley's arguments against it? Do you find Berkeley's arguments satisfactory? Primary qualities are characteristics of objects that are set apart from the observer, or quantitative aspects of our environment. This includes things like extension,…

Shattuck's(1994) his explanation of what could have happened to Victor's mind, is, as he compares Victor with the more recent case of Genie: “In recent years, scientists have worked out a theory that sounds like a refinement of Locke's and Condillac's tabula rasa or wax-tablet figure. Many experiments show that right-handed people learn language, mathematics, and logic with the left hemisphere of their brains, and do other kinds of thinking related to space, vision, and touch with the right…

In this essay I am going to show that African man can be seen as Lockean man. To achieve this I will examine the theory of Thomas Hobbes who suggested that man is basically evil, John Locke who suggested that man is basically tabula Rosa and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who suggested that man is basically good. For Hobbes theory I will refer to the short story The Crow, for Rousseau theory I will use the setting sun and the rolling world and Ten shekel short story for Locke theory. The crow clearly…

Jonas Mekas while commenting on Warhol’s cinematography said: “ the serious art and the good entertainment are supposed to shake you up. Here, however, is an art which asks that it be shaken up by you, filled with ideas by you! An art that is tabula rasa. An art that leaves the viewer standing alone, in front of it, like looking into the mirror. Didn’t we always say that art mirrors reality? So here it really is…

Behaviorism see psychological disorders as the result of maladaptive learning, as people are born tabula rasa (a blank slate). They do not assume that sets of symptoms reflect single underlying causes. Behaviorism assumes that all behavior is learnt from the environment and symptoms are acquired through classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning involves learning by association and is usually the cause of most phobias. Operant conditioning involves learning by…

Jim Henson is the greatest puppeteer of all time, creating movies and television shows such as Sesame Street, The Muppets Show, and Fraggle Rock. Henson is known for the manipulating inanimate objects to speak and move for his own personal cause, this case entertainment. There is, however, an even greater puppeteer then the late Jim Henson. Great Britain (and other European powers) conquered the continent of Africa during the early 1900’s to strip the land of its natural resources and…

Contrary to deMause’s negative remarks about the horrible state of childhood, by the fourteenth century there were manuals offering advice on many aspects of child care, including advice about health, feeding, and the kinds of games to play with children (Berk, 2008). And in her book “Forgotten Children,” Linda Pollack (1983) uses a different kind of research (she scoured diaries, autobiographies and related sources) to conclude that well before the enlightenment of the 18th and 19th centuries…

Throughout the entire novel, the Creature is exposed to stimuli that shapes the being that he becomes. The Creature is inherently social, but the stimulus of the villagers shaped who became. When he tried to peacefully talk to the them, he was shunned on more than one occasion. The first time is when he wanted to introduce himself to the cottagers and in result, Felix runs at him and, ¨[strikes him] violently with a stick¨ (Frankenstein, 134). When the Creature kills the young boy, he is…

Nature Versus Nurture Success In 1869 anthropologist Francis Galton coined the nature versus nurture debate. This is a scientific, cultural, and philosophical debate about whether human culture, behavior, and personality are caused primarily by nature or nurture(Goodtherapy). Nature and nurture both influence who we are. In this debate, nature refers to genetic or hormone-based behaviors, while nurture refers mostly to environment and experience. Nature and nurture both have a great influence…

(Existentialism) I believe in the philosophy that people are born as blank slates (tabula rasa). Blank slate, I believe, means the mind does not have innate concepts. Reflexes, urges, or any other involuntary primitive emotions (fear, hunger, pain, etc...), muscle movements are not concepts. That a baby can crawl, eat, breathe, grasp, cry and even walk before ever saying the first word, or concept, it learns is no disproof of tabula rasa. I think the whole issue lies around one’s definition of…