Tabula rasa

Research Paper: Pride and Prejudice In the satirical social commentary novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, the characters of Elizabeth Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Wickham are products of their society’s traditional, hierarchical construct, however Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy reject this aspect of their nurture, and they embrace their true nature. Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, by Jane Austen, who wrote the novel as she came of age. The novel takes place in the…

Jennifer Menjivar Mr. Davenport Honors British Literature February 11, 2016 A.M.D.G. THE BLANK STATE The Latin phrase Tabula Rasa, also known as the "Blank Slate" was a epistemological theory—which explores the nature and complexity of knowledge—that was expanded on by John Locke. Locke's modernized idea involved the belief that, at birth, the human mind is essentially untouched. Humans are neither inherently good nor inherently evil during infancy. A child's mind is molded through…

began from a state of cluelessness and have advanced what our world uses today incredibly. One of the most influential psychologists who impacted the psychology world is John Locke. John Locke is well known for his work in philosophies such as Tabula Rasa and behaviorism. John Locke was a British philosopher who had witnessed and experienced many things that influenced his life. He wrote several books that are still considered important to philosophy today, such as…

The open deliberation within psychology is that of the nature, nurture debate. It concerns itself with to what extent a person’s particular aspects and characteristics are inherited or acquired. Nature is the thing that we consider as pre-wiring, its sole basis stems from that of genetic inheritance coupled with biological factors. Influence of external factors align with that of a nurture debate, with which the product of exposure and experience fit well. It has for some time been realized that…

Every aspect of the film is imbued, created and viewed through the lens of the black female spectator as filmmaker. Nana is arguably the center of the film – she’s an old wise woman and the leader of the Peazant family. She is regarded as the seat of knowledge in the family – which is already a subversion of mainstream cinema that usually gives that type of knowledge to old white men. Nana Peazant’s knowledge is ancestral and cultural, yet gives her the wisdom of any great scholar - the African…

of a blank state, in terms of an artistic study or studio, are encouraging to the development of the artist’s identity. As Jean Lescure aptly puts it: “An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates” The philosophy of a tabula rasa space is founded on the principles that any common space can become a personalised haven of psychological consequence. In this model, poetry of place, rather than space, is mandatory due to the multiple possibilities within circumstance and…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau stated that “People need a sense of order. Humans are born as blank slates (tabula rasa), which means society can instill proper morality, and thus, a conscience.” Whether genetics or experience is responsible for the way a person behaves, is the basis for the nature versus nurture debate. This argument questions why a person thinks, acts, and functions the way they do. Both nature and nurture play a vital role when it comes to raising a child. However, it is the nurturing…

Leopold Seder Senghor, first Senegalese president, poet and politician and one of the pioneers in the Pan-African philosophical movement known as Negritude. He got a scholarship in 1925 and went to college in Paris. During his college years, he met Aime Cesaire and Leon Damas and together they established the negritude movement. In 1955 he is elected secretary of state of the French presidency before becoming in 1960 the first Senegalese president until 1980. Senghor promotes a quest for the…

The Truman Show (1998) directed by Peter Weir follows Truman Burbank, a man who has spent his life in a television set where his decisions are controlled by producer Christof. The Truman Show raises the question ‘Is the world within The Truman Show an illusion or does it have some reality?’ This is an epistemological issue as it is relating to the theory of knowledge and more specifically, the knowledge of reality. As epistemology is a branch of philosophy, this question is a philosophical issue…

early behaviourists believed that behaviour could be explained by monitoring and examining how one interacts with the surrounding environment. This required the behaviourists to make several assumptions. First the human mind was to be seen as “tabula rasa”, an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge from the sum of our perceptions and experiences. Additionally…